How old is your pooch in “human years”?

Older than you think!

You’ve probably heard of the 1-to-7 ratio…one dog year is seven of ours.

Not exactly.

A new UCSD study checked the age of the cells in a dog’s body to figure out what they really are in human years and they found that dogs make a HUGE leap in their first year…by the time they turn one, they’re basically like a 30-year-old person.

The aging process slows down after that…by age two, they’re about 40 in our years and at four, that’s like being 52.

Then when a dog is 10 years old or older, they’re essentially a 70-year-old person and start aging at about one human year for every dog year.

So…how old IS your dog now?