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While wearing her tiny "Mexican" party hat, Her Royal Fuzziness, The Princess Buttercup, saw on TV that one of the freshman senators claimed the world was ending in 12 years. She wondered if that was human years or dog years . . .
Bug Years
Joanie (top) and Howard (bottom) had heard that dog years are shorter than human years, it took 7 (some say 7 1/2) dog years to make one human year. How many bug years would it take to make a human year, they wondered . . .
Turtle Years vs Dog Years
Clyde (pictured) was trying to do his doctoral dissertation for Veterinary Medicine, comparing dog years to human years, and then calculating Turtle Years. The well know scientific fact is that a human year is equal to seven dog years, depending on the size of the dog. Turtles however, often live as much as 400 human years. How do you calculate that? Wikipedia had almost nothing on this subject, nor did YouTube, except for several versions of Janis Joplin’s “Turtle Blues”. It was slow going . . .
Calculating Dog Years
When Snuffy the Wonder Dog applied for his pilot’s license, he was told that 4 years old was not sufficient; you had to be at least 16. When Snuffy tried to explain the concept of dog years (7 dog years for each human year, actually making him 28) to the bureaucrat, it seemed like the man’s eyes just sort of glazed over. . .
Bee Years
Tina heard that most people knew about “dog years”–7 dog years were equal to one human year. Bees, however, only lived about two months when active and as much as four months during the winter. This means each bee year was equal to about 1 1/2 human days. Tina had already been around for several months of cold weather, but now it was warming up, she hoped her Obama care policy would keep her going in her “golden years/days” . . .
