How can I help my dog age gracefully?
Morieka Johnson knows a few tricks for keeping your older pooch happy and active.
Q: It’s getting harder for my 9-year-old dog to do the things she used to enjoy. How can I help her age gracefully?
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As we grow older our skin wrinkles, both for men and women. Wrinkles on new born babies and dogs are cute, but not on our faces. Women especially will go to great lengths to get rid of their wrinkles.
Thanks for the great comments! I understand the concerns about vets pushing high-end "prescription diets." Ideally, pet owners and vets work together and make choices based on what's best for the pet. Your vet knows the pet's history as well as the nutrient levels in most pet food brands.
A reputable vet can provide that input without pushing high-end goods.
First of all, great article on how to help aging pets!
While I agree that the vet will know your pet's history, most know very little about the nutrients in pet foods, or lack thereof.If they did, they wouldn't push crappy pet foods with by-products and chemical preservatives in the first place. In fact, most vets get very little training in pet nutrition in veterinary school.
As a longtime pet owner and professional writer, I've researched pet food extensively and recently.... More
Feed your dog a grain-free diet,(avoid garbage food like Pedigree, Iams, Old Roy etc, wich is high in dyes, corn glutens, grain based glutens, etc) supplemented with raw meat and vegtables, as well as raw marrow bones, and you will have a very healthy long-lived pet.
Vets are TERRIBLE sources of what to feed your dog. I have encountered so many people who have dogs with food allergies, who have been fooled into buying unnessicary "prescription diets."
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The only thing that I would say is that, in most cases, your local vet is not the person you want to seek nutrition advice from. You can get help from a professional pet nutritionist but I found that there are fellow pet lovers that have done this already and are happy to share what they learned. I started there and got some good information from my local "non big-box" pet store.
"Contrasting colors make balls and plush pull toys easier for older eyes to track down."
I thought dogs were color blind.
