When are puppies declard adults?

Question

Like is it 1 years, 2, years, 5 years, 6 months, what?

Answer 1

It depends on the breed of dog. Most small dogs are considered adults at 9-12 months. Larger breeds at 18-24 months.

Answer 2

about 2 years

Answer 3

depends on what you consider Adult. If you think of it as sexual maturity, then depending on the breed, it can be from 12-24 months. If you think of it physically mature then it depends on the breed usually 12-20 months. If you think of it as mental maturity, depending on the dog, not breed, it can be from 22-48 months. Yep, some dogs can actually be young of mind up until 4 years old. Most dogs thought, mature mentally/physically/sexually by the time they reach 3 years old or 36 months. Now, the breakdown used by companies or veterinarians is up to 12 months they are puppies. From 1 year to 2-2.5 years, they are young adults. From 2.5- whatever age is adults. Some does have shorter life spans than others. For dogs that live 11-15 years, the Old dog designation usually starts at 9-10 and finishes at the end of the dog's life. For dogs that live less than 8-10 years, they start at about 6-7 years.

Answer 4

Most dogs are considered adult at the age of 1 year, as it is equivalent to 7 of our years. But you must remember that their life span is a lot shorter and there purpose is a lot different than most animals. So your 7 year old dog (49 our years) may still act like a puppy.

Answer 5

A puppy is declared an adult at age 1. Thats when it has all it's parts, it's finished teething , those things.
Females usally go into there cycle, {AKA: when they go in season, or heat} at age 6 months. Or thats when my dog did. And males begin using the bathromm by cocking up there leg. at around 6 months. But when it is a year old, it is fully grown, and is an adult.
Hoped I helped!!!!

Answer 6

It depends on the breed. Usally small dogs are considered adults at 12 months but lage dogs can be considered puppies up to 24 months.

Answer 7

puppy's are declared adults when there about... 10 months to 1 year old.

Answer 8

http://www.ao.net/~holmanh/CoppBioBases/CoppBioBases.htm

ONTOGENY OF BEHAVIOR

If a dog's anatomy changes over its lifetime, then the “innate” behavior must also change. Dog behav­ior, then, must also be defined ontogenetically.

As a dog changes anatomically (its size, shape, hor­mones, and neurons) from neonate to puppy to juve­nile to adult, it goes through stages of behavioral changes. The synonyms grow up and develop mislead­ingly imply that ontogenetically a dog goes from a primitive to a more advanced state. In fact, neonates are behaviorally complex– just as or even more com­plex than adults. Many people think of ontogenetic changes as growth or maturation, but the changes might better be thought of as metamorphosis from one complex stage to another.

Each new structural organization of the animal produces a new set of innate behaviors. Thus, one must specify the dog's current ontogenetic stage when discussing its behaviors. Too often, people think of dog behavior as adult dog behavior, assuming that the puppy "develops" into the adult, that puppies are less than perfect, and that the purpose of life is to mature into an adult.


Thru domestication we've made dogs permanent "juveniles" in their behavior.
NEOTENY
Neoteny is the retention of the juvenile features in an adult animal. Genetic factors influence the degree of neoteny in individuals. Neoteny is manifested both behaviorally and physically In the forward to "The Wild Canids" (Fox, 1975), Conrad Lorenz adds a few of his observations on neoteny and the problems of domestication:

The problems of domestication have been an obsession with me for many years. On the one hand I am convinced that man owes the life-long persistence of his constitutive curiosity and explorative playfulness to a partial neoteny which is indubitably a consequence of domestication In a curiously analogous manner does the domestic dog owe its permanent attachment to its master to a behavioral neoteny that prevents it from ever wanting to be a pack leader On the other hand, domestication is apt to cause an equally alarming disintegration of valuable behavioral traits and an equally alarming exaggeration of less desirable ones.

Infantile characteristics in domestic animals are discussed by Price (1984), Lambooij and van Putten (1993), Coppinger and Coppinger (1993), Coppinger and Scheider (1993), and Coppinger et al. (1987). The shortened muzzle in dogs and pigs is an example. Domestic animals have been selected for a juvenile head shape, shortened muzzles, and other features (Coppinger and Smith, 1983). Furthermore, retaining juvenile traits makes animals more tractable and easy to handle. The physical changes are also related to changes in behavior.
http://www.dogstuff.info/behavioral_genetics_grandin_deesing.html

Stages of canine development
http://www.vanerp.net/ilse/GSDINFO/stagesofcaninedev.htm

They get their adult teeth in at about 5 months old. Then they go into sexual maturity at around 6 months.

Answer 9

all dogs are adults around 3 or 4

Answer 10

I have heard that 2 years old is when they are adults cause they are full grown by that time.