A friend who didn’t own a pet once praised the editor’s beauty and said, “This little guy is so cute!”.

As everyone knows, the "little guy" he calls is actually equivalent to a middle-aged man of about 50 years old. In addition to the pet-free people, some owners also said that in the first few years when they first started raising pets, they were still two feet tall and confused about the growth stages of their furry children - they couldn't figure it out!

In order to answer the doubts of the pet-free people, and to allow owners of furry children to more accurately grasp the growth stage of their pets, today I have opened a special science post to talk about this matter with you.

Note 1:

"It looks like an adult" is not reliable

Many owners are used to judging whether their dogs have reached adulthood by visually inspecting their dogs’ size. Is this method correct?

A more reliable method is that we can judge whether a dog has entered adulthood based on its adult weight and height, as shown below:

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Take the small dog Schnauzer as an example. If it already weighs 6-8kg, then it is likely to be an adult "young man".

Note 2:

The different physiological stages of dogs can be divided by physiological age

By understanding how to classify dogs of different sizes, we can determine their physiological stages on this basis.

Every dog ​​will go through four stages: growth, early adulthood, late adulthood and old age. For small dogs, they do not reach adulthood until they are at least 3 years old, and then enter their senior years after 10 years of growth.

For medium-sized dogs, they reach adulthood when they are 2 years old and enter their senior years after 11 years old.

If your dog is a large dog or a giant dog, you will find that it only takes 2 years for them to change from puppies to adults, and they are considered senior dogs after the age of 9! In addition, their lifespan is also four years The shortest of the species.

*The above information is for reference only, please refer to the advice of a professional pet doctor

Article source: Kakato pet food official account