That's an explanation where none is needed tbh. Sometimes, people just don't like or fear stuff, even to a religious degree, for stupid or even no reasons at all. We're humans, not vulcans after all (and even vulcans behave irrational very frequently).
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It’s possible for there to be a 130-year-old Admiral Archer still living when Kirk commands the Enterprise, but not a 105-year-old Porthos. Medical science might increase the lifespan of pets, but not by that much.
Long ago, someone online posited that Archer just got into raising Beagles in retirement so the one Scotty lost was a likely a descendant of Porthos.
I don't remember if it's come up, does the federations/earths dislike of genetic and other such augmentation extend to animals? If not, I wouldn't think it entirely impossible for them to have found an actual cure to aging, sufficient to make the lifespan of an organism indefinite until killed by some accident or infection, for some common species like a dog, but found that the technique requires the use of tech they aren't willing to deploy in humans (though the aversion to it would have to be crazy strong to give up that temptation I'd imagine.)
Look at the animal testing on mice. We have cured so much for mice that we have not for humans. Maybe dogs have better medicine than humans?