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Senior Dog and Cat Care
We love our aging companions and want their senior years to be as healthy and happy as possible. The size and breed of your dog will have a lot to do with his life expectancy, but in general most dogs are considered a senior at age seven. Due to advancements in medical care, dogs and cats are living longer than they ever did before.
How old is your pet? This depends upon how much your pet weighs. Would it surprise you that a Great Dane at 6 years old is older than a 6 year old Chihuahua? Well, it’s true. As you can see from this chart, for both cats and dogs their true age depends upon their weight.
As your pet reaches the golden years, there are a variety of conditions and diseases, that they can face, including weight and mobility changes; osteoarthritis; kidney, heart, and liver disease; tumors and cancers; organ failure; hormone disorders such as diabetes and thyroid imbalance; and many others. Just as the health care needs of humans change as we age, the same applies to pets. It’s critical for you to work closely with your veterinarian to devise a health plan that is best for your senior pet.
We offer senior pet care for pets that are aged 7 and older. We have senior care package programs that include, depending upon your pet’s breed: comprehensive blood work, chemistry, thyroid, blood, CBC, urine test, chest X-ray, abdominal ultrasound, blood pressure monitoring and eye pressure check. Talk to your veterinarian today about these packages and how to keep your senior pet at his healthy best.
Your Pet's 2012 Resolution:
Help them get Healthy!
As the New Year begins and we make our new year's resolution to lose weight, let's not forget to add our overweight pets into the plan. As reward-based training becomes more popular, so does pet obesity. This is a serious issue and obesity is a leading contributor to diabetes in pets. Overeating, a predisposition for obesity, lack of exercise and eating the wrong types of food are the most likely causes of your pet's weight gain. Overweight pets may be suffering physically as a result of carrying the extra weight, and obese pets, like obese humans, do not live as long as their more active and weight appropriate counterparts. Obesity in pets is a condition over which the owner has significant control.