Posts Tagged ‘dogs’
February 8, 2026
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February 8, 2026
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April 11, 2024
The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and the American Kennel Club (AKC) used a recent study (See post below) which compared dog and human DNA for signs of aging to devise a new way of calculating your dog’s age in human years. (See the chart below.)
Kennel Club dog age in human years link
Have to go! My little dog Sasha is waiting for her walk. She is a 10-year-old mini-Schnauzer.
Sasha’s Age in Human Years:
x 7 rule = 70 yrs
Kennel Club Chart = 56 years
Formula (below) = 68 years
I think I’ll tell Sasha she is only 56 years old in Human Years!!!!!!! She’ll be happy with that.
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April 11, 2024
Scientists have compared dog and human DNA for signs of aging to devise a more accurate way of calculating DOG AGE in HUMAN YEARS.
A Vetmed article How to Convert Dog Years to Human Years gives research details.
The researchers provide a graph and a formula:
Original study pdf
ERROR 1
The formula does not work for a dog below the age of 1 year.
The results are ridiculous in the early weeks and extreme in the first year.
The times 7 rule:
Human yrs 1 yr old dog = 7 years
Formula:
Human yrs 1 yr old dog = 31 years
Even if you are not familiar with the Natural Log … ln … you can plug the numbers into the Google Calculator to get the answer.
ERROR 2
The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and the American Kennel Club (AKC) use the same study to devise a Dog Age in Human Years chart, which doesn’t force a formula onto the results. Here is a graph using their chart numbers.
Kennel Club Dog age in human years link
Compare a dog at 1 Year:
Formula Human AGE = 31 yrs
Kennel Club Human Age = 15 years (12 years for large dogs)
The researchers just made the human ages for dogs fit the formula. The formula is not accurate. It just looks smart!!!!!
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February 24, 2021
Posted in %, algebra, Arithmetic, death by chocolate, Decimals, Fast Food Maths, graphs, Middle School, units weight | Tagged %, block, calculate, cats, chocolate, death, dogs, fatal, formula, Graph, kill, Math, percentage, theobromine | 1 Comment »
February 22, 2021
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May 29, 2014
Hellooooooooo My Little Sweetpeas,
Put it down. Step back from the ch0colate box. Did you know chocolate can kill you? And it takes less than you think. Stop chewing and read on:
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Maybe, won’t die. Maybe, you will become a ZOMIE. No worries, we have that covered too.
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Bye-de-bye and watch your step
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May 28, 2014
Posted in %, algebra, Arithmetic, Decimals, Fast Food Maths, graphs, Middle School, units weight | Tagged calculations, cats, chocolate, death by chocolate, dogs, fatal, formula, Graph, how many blocks of chocolate?, how much chocolate kills, humans, kill, Math %, percentage, theobromine | 7 Comments »
May 28, 2014
Chocolate can be fatal to dogs. As dogs are small they can easily eat enough chocolate to kill them. According to The Royal Society of Chemistry
LD50 or Lethal Dose for 50% of the population of dogs for Theobromine is 300 mg/kg or 0.3 gm/kg.
chihuahua weighs 3 kg or less
cocker spaniel weighs 12 kg
Great Dane weighs 64 kg
Dogs are susceptible to Chocolate Poisoning because they do not metabolise Theobromine very quickly. In other words, they can gobble down a lot of chocolate (Christmas Day and Valentine’s Day are danger zones for dogs) and the chemical builds up in the body to a lethal dose.
The National Geographic has an amazing interactive chart for dog poisoning by chocolate.
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* Vetmedicine: Cooking chocolate contains 8-10 times the Theobromine in Milk Chocolate.
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