parting comment, before I go to bed
I should have been in bed a half-hour ago. No, that's not my comment.
You've heard the old saw that each year of a dog's life is about 7 in human years. Well, maybe on average. But have you ever heard of a seven year-old having a baby? Yet dogs whelp puppies at one year of age.
So I've known for a while that the 7:1 ratio was ... flawed, but I never bothered to figure out what Lorraine's actual age would be, were she human.
Found this site, and since we guesstimate she was born sometime in mid-September to mid-October of 2006, she would be about 24 years old now, in human. Heh. But since she was a mere pup when she whelped her litter, she was a tweenage mom. If I calculated everything correctly, she was probably the equivalent of 11-12 years old when she got pregnant. That would be about 6-ish months, which is about the time that a dog goes into heat for the first time.
That just blows my mind. No wonder she was not the best puppy parent.
You've heard the old saw that each year of a dog's life is about 7 in human years. Well, maybe on average. But have you ever heard of a seven year-old having a baby? Yet dogs whelp puppies at one year of age.
So I've known for a while that the 7:1 ratio was ... flawed, but I never bothered to figure out what Lorraine's actual age would be, were she human.
Found this site, and since we guesstimate she was born sometime in mid-September to mid-October of 2006, she would be about 24 years old now, in human. Heh. But since she was a mere pup when she whelped her litter, she was a tweenage mom. If I calculated everything correctly, she was probably the equivalent of 11-12 years old when she got pregnant. That would be about 6-ish months, which is about the time that a dog goes into heat for the first time.
That just blows my mind. No wonder she was not the best puppy parent.