Senior Pets -- Strategies for Coping with This Challenging Stage of Life

Watching our dear pets age is bittersweet. Life with them has become comfortable -- we understand each other. All parties cherish the loving companionship. But getting older brings problems--arthritis makes our walks together shorter and more laborious, vision problems make strange situations more threatening, vet bills add up.

Unfortunately many of the physical changes in aging pets go undetected by the average owner. Most pets decline quite quickly, seemingly almost overnight, making it hard for the owner to assimilate the change.

The result is that animals and owners often end up in combat as the owner feels their once agreeable dog is now challenging them.

Dog trainer Lisa Hartman, author of Dial a Dynamite Dog and quoted above, has written a helpful and sensitive piece on the subject. New Tricks for Old Dogs -- Strategies for dealing with an aging pet | Biscayne Times provides excellent strategies to help cope with this new stage and is worth the read.

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