Well I think most of the dog owners on this forum knows the tables converting dog aging to human aging.
However the oldest confirmed dog lived for 29 years 5 months (and unconfirmed just over 30 years) and that seems very far away from human aging as it would correspond to a age in the range of 160-180 years for a human as far as I understand it.
Most of dogs age and die between 10-15 years with some exceptions between the races e.g the italian race Lagotto Romagnolo normally live to 17-18 and big danish only to 7-8.
However it seems in many animals that some individuals can get much older compared to the norm than humans.
Some other examples would be,Horses normally age and die around 30 but the record is 62.You should consider yourself lucky if your cat lives to 20 as it is not normal but the world record is 38.
Has anybody noticed this? Any ideas of why the lifespan doesn't seem as fixed in these animals as in humans?
This may be taken into consideration of the studies of calorie restricted monkeys as animal lifespan doesn't seem as easy to translate to humans as thought at first glance.
