For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for November 25, 2015

This is a natural reaction for a kid to have. They don’t understand that ‘dog years’ differ from ‘human years’…

So are the dog days of summer 280 human days or 5.7 human days?

Now they have pills to help with the discomfort. It makes a great deal of difference. Never tell them there’s a problem and they will keep enjoying life.Our Berners only live 8-13 years. Farley should be good for 10.

Individual animal’s lifespans, like human’s, often are a combination of luck, diet, exercise, medical care and love.

Longevity is relative but I’ve had a couple of very large dogs ( St. Bernard/Tall Dark and Sneaky Stranger mix ) live to be 15 yrs. and 16 yrs. respectively; a cat that lived over 23 years; and a cutting horse that lived to be 35 ! No matter how long we have our pet family with us, the pain of losing them is still acute and often lingers longer than the loss of a human.

I suppose a “light year” is 365 days too, h’m? People know what is meant by “dog years”.

the only thing that matters is enjoying the time you’re here. Happy Thanksgiving and tomorrow my puppy (she’s 1 1/2 years) and foster dog will be enjoying puppicinos after dinner.

That would only be true in the time light was travelling close to a gravitational force.

There is NO SUCH THING as “Turkey Day”. The holiday is THANKSGIVING. It is supposed to be a day when we reflect on our blessings and give thanks for them (and yes, that implies that there is Someone to give thanks to.)

The WebMD site provides information on how to calculate the actual age of a dog in ‘human year’ terms.

“If you own a dog, you’ve heard this rule: 1 year for Fido equals 7 years for you. Turns out, the math isn’t that simple. Dogs mature more quickly than we do early on. So the first year of your fuzzy friend’s life is equal to about 15 human years.

Size and breed also play a role. Smaller dogs tend to live longer than larger ones, but they may mature more quickly in the first years of life…”

The webpage provides an equivalency table, comparing the years of dogs lives to those of human lives, for dogs 20 pounds and smaller, 21- 50 pounds, and over 50 pounds. For the first five years of a dog’s life, all size groups are shown as having the same equivalent human age. For a one year old dog of any of those sizes, for example, the dog is the equivalent of 15 years old in human terms. The difference sets in when dogs are age 6. At that point, the small dog is age 40 in human years, the medium dog is age 42 and the large dog is age 45 in human years…

If you take out a Second Mortgage, we can try some experimental Surgery that probably won’t work, but we’d sure like to have the Money.

So I guess Herr Doktor Einstein was incorrect in determining that the speed of light is constant (thereby justifying the “C” portion of E=MC2). While the spectrum and direction can be changed by gravitational fields and other outside influences, the speed does not change. Of course, if one could take the point-of-view of a photon, there is no such thing as time, and without time, no speed equation (distance/time) is possible. I’ll further the confusion by adding that the velocity of light can be changed, but let the rest of you work that out…

A dog is always too young to have something bad go wrong with them. They are so young at heart, it is just not fair!