Small Dog Big Life

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How Come Small Dogs Live Longer Than Big Dogs?

Why is it that my dogs, which weight about 15 pounds each, have a life expectancy of 14 or 15 years but a dog that weights nearly 100 pounds would have a life expectancy of maybe 8 years?

It’s certainly true that very large dogs tend to come with more health problems because their bodies simply can’t take the strain of their size – Great Danes and St Bernards and the like are simply ‘too big’!!

However if you compare dogs to every other species of animal in the world, it actually makes no sense whatsoever that they live longer the smaller they are, even though we know they do. Think about it; huge elephants live for years and years, and the bigger the species of tortoise the longer its life expectancy. In comparison, little rodents only live for a few years, and bugs sometimes only for a day! Large animals have slower metabolisms which usually works in their favour.

Dogs are a complete enigma in this respect when compared with the rest of the animal kingdom – the only other exception being some birds which can live for 80 years or more.

Have a look at this article on body size, energy metabolism and lifespan, very interesting – the first line is ‘Bigger animals live longer’ and then goes on to explain why – doesn’t explain why this doesn’t apply to dogs!
http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/full/208/9/1717

The only explanation I can think of is that given the huge variation of size we’ve created among domestic dogs, there’s obviously an ‘ideal size’ for the basic canine design. You’d think it would be medium/largish dogs i.e wolf or wild dog size, but apparently by creating small dogs we’ve created the ideal canine size!

Also keep in mind that dogs can be TOO small – very tiny ones like teacup chihuahuas tend to have a myriad health problems that shorten their lifespan. They’re not supposed to be THAT small.

VERY interesting q by the way, nice one!

Chalice

EDIT: OK a vet at work has a theory concerning the relative size of dog’s hearts. Great Danes may have a body mass ten times that of a Jack Russell, but their hearts are certainly not ten times as big – they’re maybe two or three times as big! Ergo, large breeds simply do not have large enough hearts to support their size for any length of time; they’re bound to fail a lot sooner.

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