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Since the 1930s, the canine life span has increased more than 70 percent, from seven years to 12! And that's just the average. With advances in veterinary care and nutrition and more knowledgeable owners, many good-sized dogs now live to 14. Of course, no one can really predict how long an individual dog will live.
The dog is supposed to be an animal that might be hale and hearty at 12 year of age, and would live to 15 or 16 years or over, but we hear of breeds, popular on the show bench, averaging about 6 years, and a dog of that age may look very old.