How many inches longer will the lives be?
LOY-001 is designed for healthy dogs over the age of seven and above 40 pounds
hopefully they can work on fixing that so all dog breeds can benefit. I would have gladly paid any amount of money to extend my lil guy's lifespan. the 10 years we had were the best years of my life.
According to their site LOY-002 is for all breeds. LOY-001 and LOY-003 are specific to large dogs.
I really hope these drugs pan out!
My dogs are still young.. If it's something that can be real in few years then I'd be so grateful. I wouldn't want them in pain for longer though so it depends how the drug works.
My best friend passed away early this year, and while I believe in the quality of life over the quantity, I can't deny what I would give to be able to be with him just a bit longer...
The drug described here is supposed to improve quality of life in later years, and a few extra years is a side effect of that.
Assuming it works as advertised. I hope it does. I want some for my dogs.
The actual solution is to adopt smaller dogs and reduce the demand for larger dogs as they don't have the levels of the growth hormone that larger dogs were selectively bred into having. Which is the cause for such shortened lifespans as compared to small dogs.
Not to develop a hormone therapy that just continues to perpetuate the practice that we now know causes these reduced lifespans.
At this point, this is just further enabling designer dogs.
I mean, this may prolong lifespans but Quality of Life is a lot more important that raw lifespan. I doubt this does much for those issues so it's kinda moot.
Yeah, my question is how much will this help their teeth?
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