It is usually necessary to determine the age of a dog if she got to you from a homeless animals shelter or you found her on the street. Anyway, when on a dog there are no documents, you need to know her age to pick up correctly a diet of feeding or a dosage of medicines.
Instruction
1. One of the most reliable ways determination of age of a dog on teeth is considered. There are special tables in which on change of teeth of a puppy or degree of wear of certain pairs of teeth of an adult animal, its age is determined. It concerns all hunting dogs including spaniels. It is necessary to consider that extent of attrition depends on a bite, if it wrong, then such diagnostics will be very approximate.
2. Change of teeth at dogs comes to an end to seven-months age therefore if you had a dog with a full range of brand new second teeth, then its age approximately a year and a half. If on inside of teeth there is already a yellow raid, then the age of a spaniel approaches two years. In case on teeth the scale was already formed, then, most likely, the dog is from 3 to 5 years old. When the dog does not have enough several teeth, it is sign that aging process already began and you have to take care of special her tooth care.
3. One more indirect age indicator is muscle bulk. At young dogs it much more, than the mass of a skeleton. What causes their mobility and playfulness. By an old age the spaniels become bonier and less active.
4. With age also the structure of wool at dogs changes. At puppies and young individuals it soft, silky and nice on the touch. Adult dogs are characterized by more rough, the wool sometimes greased, by an old age, in 6-7 years around a muzzle at them appears a gray hair and spots of bald spots. Then all muzzle turns gray.
5. At a young dog of an eye slightly to a navykata, live and clear, without slezootdeleniye. By 9-12 years they slightly sink down, it seems that they are put deeply. By an old age the pupil extends, the crystalline lens grows turbid.
6. Even the old dog at appropriate care is capable to live some more years, remaining active and healthy. Choose for her the corresponding food allowance in which include high-quality products. At this age of a dog eat much less therefore you will save on quantity.