Studying!

You have to wonder about some of these ‘studies’ and the people doing them. At least, I do. Like the most recent to catch my eye that ‘challenges’ the way we have always equated one dog year with seven human ones. I have never questioned that; it’s just one of those things we were told and believed, like folklore. But she claims that at the end of one year a dog is not the equivalent of a seven-year-old child.

The study (explained in about seven sentences – equal to one?) claimed my attention not because I have a special interest in whether a dog that barks at nothing or chases cars (or squirrels) like a mad thing or bites the ankles of anyone visiting its person’s home (for the first and last time if it’s my ankle), is still an infant, in its second childhood or just a naughty little so-and-so. . . . contd.

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