From my perspective, “dog years,” as people usually think of the phrase, don’t seem to be worth much. When analyzed, the calculations can be a bit more complicated than the straightforward idea that one human calendar year equals approximately seven dog years. But what’s the point?
I think about dog years differently. For me, dog years, those spent with a specific dog or dogs, define periods of our lives – where we were, what we did – in general and in detail – what difficulties we faced and, invariably, how that dog, regardless of age, guided us through the worst and the best of times.
Dog years: these years are best spent
