Anthropomorphizing

Previously, I had entitled a post "Draco's New Friend." I'm starting to reconsider that title. Don't get me wrong, I think he likes her, I don't know if he would consider her a "friend" as we would define the word. Bella adores him. She would probably attempt to jump on top of his back all day if we let her. Therein lies the problem. She's constantly harassing Draco. In the sense of family, he's probably seen as the older brother: Likes his younger sister, will tolerate her for the most part, definitely needs his space away from her, and won't be caught dead with her in public. (We'll see about that this weekend when we might have nice enough weather and two non-sick humans to take them on a walk together.)

I then thought about their age difference and related that to being close to a grandfather and granddaughter. If you take the old rule-of-thumb that one human year equals 7 dog years, Draco would be roughly 67 years old and Bella would be just shy of 2. However, doing a Google search enlightens me yet again. There's no real conversion between dog years and human years. It seems now the general consensus is that the ratio is greater in the first two years of a dogs life and decreases with age. One "expert" believes each of the first two years of a dogs life is equivalent to 10 1/2 human years and about 4 human years for each year after. Another source believes that after the first year, the dog is the equivalent of a 15 year old human and ages roughly 5 human years every year after.

So what this means is we've got a middle aged man who only wants to play when he feels like it and a baby girl that is in constant need of attention. Envy us?