The most popular method of calculating your dog’s age in “human years” is to multiply his age by 7. But the fact is dogs and humans don’t age at the same rate. Dogs age at a much faster rate than humans early in their lives, then slow down after reaching maturity. So they developed a new formula for calculating a dog’s age in human terms.
Multiply the dog’s age by 16, then add 31. So by example, a 2-year old dog is 42 in human terms, rather than 14 using the usual method. A 5-year-old dog is approximately a 57-year-old human, while a 6-year-old dog is nearing 60 in human years.
This formula isn’t completely accurate for every breed, as different dog’s age at different rates, it probably beats the old, unscientific 7-year rule.
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