It really is a dog's life
IN the olden days, man's life expectancy was generally expected to be three score years and 10, and a dog was considered lucky to reach its 10th birthday.
To equate a mutt's age to that of a man, one could simply multiply by seven.
However, I recently read an article in which vets say it's more practical to make the comparison with dogs at different stages of their life.
A puppy aged six to 18 months would be a teenager and a dog would be be middle-aged by the time it was seven, for instance.
Nowadays, both men and dogs live longer, so I can think the old adage can still apply.
In Terry Kelly's column on Tuesday, February 23, he wrote: "Canine experts claim dogs have different types of retina, which accounts for many of them taking no notice when other dogs or animals appear on TV."
My border collie must be one of the exceptions as she does take notice.
Adding to her severe dislike of motorbikes, she barks at TV documentaries on meerkats, mongooses and other creatures, but, strangely enough, not horses.
She can be fast asleep on her rug, but she wakes up and goes bananas on hearing the opening of a certain commercial featuring an aristocratic Russian meerkat, pictured.
I must close now as my four-legged friend wants to go out and is sitting by the front door.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed there will be no meerkats or mongooses about!
Ken Johnson
Mowbray Road,
South Shields.
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