Exercise and diet also play a role in how long your dog will live. Like in humans, in dogs females tend to live longer than males (so an “80 year old” female dog = 80 year old woman). We then factor in your dog's breed composition, information at certain genes that affect size, and their inbreeding coefficient to calculate genetic age.
It's okay if this is an estimation: it is just a starting point. Makes way more sense, right?Īll we need from you is a calendar age. So going back to our Dane/Pom example, we'd estimate a seven year old Great Dane at about 80 years old (senior citizen), but a seven year old Pom would be about 42 (adult). So how do you best determine how old your dog is?Įmbark's genetic age feature calculates how old your dog would be if he or she were aging at an average human rate (using humans in the USA as the baseline). Just within this example, you can see that the old "one doggie year = seven human years" adage isn’t going to work.Īnd yet, knowing your dog’s age is important: it informs what your dog needs as far as food, frequency of veterinary checkups, and exercise. Body size is a strong genetic influence: for example, a seven year old Great Dane is at the start of his golden years, but a seven year old Pomeranian is just learning what "slow down" means.
The genetic age that we report is an estimation of where your dog is in his or her healthspan.ĭogs age at very different rates due to a number of genetic and environmental factors. To learn how vets estimate calendar age you can read How old is your dog? How veterinarians estimate dog age. We cannot (yet) estimate calendar age-how long since your dog was born-from DNA. Please note that genetic age is different from calendar age.
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