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emmaverybo

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16. Mandatory spay and neuter programs could work, if enforced. Then we would have to find them .

Reply to cstanleytech (Reply #15)

Sun Dec 1, 2019, 03:37 AM

Dec 2019

homes, which could be done if municipal animal care and control had the resources and used them. But they never will have such life-spans. No kill shelter proponents make the case that there are enough homes, but many of the shelters don’t market, don’t bother to find owners, don’5 do enough to not kill. Now parrots do have our lifespan and longer. That’s a problem for guardians! They have to be sure they have a plan for the birds they will leave behind.

I guess we’d need to control human population to accommodate longer-living dogs. I don’t have a problem with that.

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You may need to rethink your dog's age [View all] dalton99a Nov 2019 OP

Graphic combines two of my most favorite things... Tom Hanks and Dogs! LOL hlthe2b Nov 2019 #1

Where did the Tom Hanks vs Dog graphic come from? targetpractice Nov 2019 #2

From the original paper: dalton99a Nov 2019 #3

Thank you, dalton99a! n/t targetpractice Nov 2019 #6

Fascinating Bayard Nov 2019 #4

Science, useless trivia, and Doggos ... 3 of my favorite things :) How about doing Kittehs next? nt mr_lebowski Nov 2019 #5

What does In mean? I read the study, but still can't do the math. My two dogs are around 10 years emmaverybo Nov 2019 #7

their only flaw. mopinko Nov 2019 #12

"Boo hoo, unfair that dogs don't have the actual human lifespan." Considering the size and number cstanleytech Dec 2019 #15

Mandatory spay and neuter programs could work, if enforced. Then we would have to find them . emmaverybo Dec 2019 #16

Long term probably would not work as there bound to be some animals that escape into cstanleytech Dec 2019 #17

Well, there it is. I am in the science group I see! And you are talking truth to sentiment. We could emmaverybo Dec 2019 #19

It's a lower case L, not a capital i - "ln" the natural logarithm muriel_volestrangler Dec 2019 #21

Thank you so much! I am amazed a dog lived that long. And right, sounds like the algorithm emmaverybo Dec 2019 #22

I've long known that the seven dog years equals one human year PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2019 #8

And whether or not one smokes. Harker Nov 2019 #9

LOL! PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2019 #13

They certainly are precious... Harker Nov 2019 #14

My formula was always Wednesdays Nov 2019 #10

Our yellow lab Hunny passed away several years ago, a few months shy of 17 Martin Eden Nov 2019 #11

Oldest dog I ever knew SCantiGOP Dec 2019 #20

I also think age depends on the dog's size/breed. Two of my dogs lived past 18 Rhiannon12866 Dec 2019 #18