An Appropriate name for this rather large dog, Hercules!

I wonder what his actual weight is as they failed to include it, but he is one large bundle of joy ! When you see the other dog, it puts this dogs weight into perspective. I also am curious what their food bill is for him?

 

Oh my, he looks like a bear, he is enormous, so much bigger than this man. I would be scared of a dog like this. It's a great responsibility to train a dog who is so big because he could be dangerous. When my Homer is trying to bite me, I can only laugh. With this dog it would be different.

 

Sad to see Hercules only lived for ten years.

Yes it would be a handful to own such a large dog.The food bill would be enormous. I'm sure like most dogs he was adorable but I'ld say he wouldn't know his own strength at times.
A good name Hercules.

 

I heard big dogs always live shorter lives than small dogs. I wonder why. Some animals - elephants for example - are big and live for so long.

 

That's a good point. Though maybe dogs have been bred and the organs have not matched for the size of a large dog?

 

Wow, that was a dog, he was huge. I guess Hercules was an appropriate name for him. Sad that he did only live ten years though, wonder if it did have to do with his size. You don't see too many dogs that big. I remember once seeing a Greyhound in my neighborhood who was so tall he was almost the size of a horse, and I thought that was huge, but even this dog didn't compare to Hercules.

 

Her's a chart to calculate your dogs age in human equivalent. Larger breeders tend to be much older at 10 years or more.
http://pets.webmd.com/dogs/how-to-calculate-your-dogs-age

and this link give you some idea what type of illness your dog may get and life span of different breeds.
There's no border collies listed?
http://pets.webmd.com/dogs/features/dogs-and-life-span-which-breeds-live-longest?page=2

 

Judging by how long dogs tend to live, that really doesn't seem that short. Even looking at the link that argon posted, most seem to live between 10 and 15 in general. Hercules surely had a pretty decent life and didn't really die that young.

 

Homer is 40 according to this calculator. If he is, then why does he still act like a child? lol

 

Mishka's 56 and she is still very agile with no signs of arthritis as the vet predicted when she had a back leg dislocate some years back.

She sitting next to me on this hot summers day. Boy it's gunna get to 40C/104F.

 

It's good to hear Mishka is healthy

I'm so jealous!!! We have 6 degree Celsius here and it's way too cold for me. Homer insists on spending most of the day in the garden, I'm afraid he'll catch a cold

 

6 degrees is a bit chilly. It got to 40C here yesterday. One of my chickens looks worse for wear from the extreme heat and may not survive.
Homer should be alright as long as he doesn't stay wet for too long.
Do you have much of a garden for him to dig up?
Do you go outside with him or just watch from the window?

 

We have a big garden and he runs wherever he wants, there is a fence so he is safe and I don't have to watch him. I just check from time to time to see if everything is okay. The problem is he wants to sit on the rocks and rocks are so cold! But when he sits there, he can see whole street so it's his favourite place
Poor chicken, I hope it'll survive! How is Mishka today? Is it still so hot?

 

That is a very interesting chart. I was surprised to see that at the 1 year mark of a dog's life he is equivalent to a 15 year old human. It's also interesting how for the first 5 years all dogs age the same. After the 6th year you can see how larger breeds age much quicker.