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Polymorph49 t1_j701l7i wrote

Great to hear. Made the double century in dog years, nice one!

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XuX24 t1_j71p2ic wrote

Man if one day a genie come to me and said you have one wish but it can't affect you or humanity directly I would definitely choose making pets like cats or dogs have a longer life span. I would love to have my dog be with me for like 40 to 60 years. But I settle with having the best time I can with them.

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theelljar OP t1_j74qhlh wrote

so true!! my little guy is 16 and i do everything i can to help him stay strong and active and happy. i adopted him when he was about 7 months old -- he's totally my kid! 🥰

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outsideyourbox4once t1_j71b2nt wrote

I had to search for the oldest cat after reading this.

"Creme Puff (August 3, 1969 – August 6, 2005) was a domestic cat, owned by Jake Perry of Austin, Texas, US. She was the oldest cat ever recorded, according to the 2010 edition of Guinness World Records, when she died aged 38 years and 3 days. Austin, Texas, U.S."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creme_Puff_(cat)

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WikiSummarizerBot t1_j71b3i9 wrote

Creme Puff (cat)

>Creme Puff (August 3, 1967 – August 6, 2005) was a domestic cat, owned by Jake Perry of Austin, Texas, US. She was the oldest cat ever recorded, according to the 2010 edition of Guinness World Records, when she died aged 38 years and 3 days. Perry had another cat, Granpa Rex Allen, who he said was born in Paris, Texas, on 1 February 1964 and died aged 34 years and 59 days on 1 April 1998. The sixth oldest cat ever known, Granpa was posthumously awarded 1999 Cat of the Year by Cats & Kittens magazine.

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Real_Topic_7655 t1_j713aq5 wrote

Is that 210 in human years?

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Mkengine t1_j71vw3n wrote

According to this paper, the conversion is not linear but logarithmic, following the formula: human age = 16*ln(dog_age) + 31 Which brings his age to 85.8 human years. Here you can see this in a graphic, taken from the first figure of the publication.

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theelljar OP t1_j74r14o wrote

i don't think I'm buying that calculation. 85 really isn't that old in human years. if that were really the equivalent, one would expect dogs to be living into their 20s on a regular basis.

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Mkengine t1_j7ao77h wrote

I also thought about it again and took a closer look at the paper. Their sample includes dogs in the age of 0 to 15 years, so our calculated age is extrapolated. Probably the formula works in their range quite well, but at twice the age of their maximum age, the formula is perhaps no longer applicable. His age is probably somewhere between this result and the conventional formula.

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