What is "dog years"

n. (dog year English)

Dog years may refer to:

• Aging in dogs
• A non-standard unit of measurement called the Dog year
• Dog Years (album), 2003 comedy album by Mike Birbiglia
• Dog Years (novel), 1963 novel by Günter Grass
• Dog Years (film), 1997 action-comedy film directed by Robert Loomis
• "Dog Years", a song by the band Rush on their 1996 album Test for Echo

Dog Years'' (Hundejahre'') is a novel by Günter Grass. It was first published in Germany in 1963. Its English translation, by Ralph Manheim, was first published in 1965. It is the third and last volume of his Danzig Trilogy, the other two being The Tin Drum and Cat and Mouse. The novel consists of three different chronological parts, from the 1920s to the 1950s. The main characters are Walter Matern and Eduard Amsel.

Dog Years is a 1997 action- comedy film directed by Robert Loomis and distributed by Troma Entertainment.

It was filmed entirely in Arizona and featured music by Arizona ska band Dave's Big Deluxe. Dog Years was well received by film critics. Variety compared the film to the early works of Jim Jarmusch and Hal Hartley, and the film won two awards at the 1998 Arizona International Film Festival for 'Most Popular Indie Film' and 'Best of Arizona'. Additionally, Dog Years played at the 1998 South by Southwest film festival.

In 2003, Robert Loomis directed Angry Young Man, the sequel to Dog Years, once again starring R. Michael Caincross.