Common breeds in the United States at an above-average ... At 11.5 years, the bichon frise had the oldest median diagnosis age. Meanwhile, female dogs were typically diagnosed at older ages ...

Large breeds and breeds with flattened faces had shorter average life spans than smaller dogs and those with elongated snouts, the researchers found. Female dogs also lived slightly longer than ...

The data included 584,734 dogs belonging to 155 breeds, of which 284,734 were deceased. The dogs had an average lifespan of 12.5 years. Female dogs had a slightly higher life expectancy of 12.7 ...

The researchers found that small, long-nosed female dogs tended to have the longest lifespans among pure breeds overall, with a median lifespan of 13.3 years. But breeds with flat-faces had a ...