Shared: Dead Dog

I still don't get it. Why the need for dog years? Are there cat years? Turtle years? Owners don't celebrate each dog year birthday, up to 15 in the first year, which would be like that couple that celebrates weekly anniversaries. Sounds like dogs are getting greedy.

How we know that Chanel, the world's oldest dog, was really 147 dog-years old.: "The world's oldest dog, a dachshund named Chanel, died of natural causes Friday at the reported age of 147 dog years. On the occasion of her 21st birthday (in human years), Christopher Beam wrote the following 'Explainer' column on the proper way to calculate a dog's age.

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