What age is "old"?
What age qualifies a pet as geriatric? Many people have heard the ratio of dogs aging 7 human years for each calendar year, but the truth is that even within the canine family, larger dogs age much faster than smaller dogs. For small cats and dogs, many consider 11.5 years of age geriatric, while larger breed dogs are considered "old" much younger, at 9 or 10 years of age. I think the more relevant question is not how OLD the pet is, but how the pet IS. Old age is not a disea
