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Getting Old Bites

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Yeah, I know. This is a blog mainly because it's too long to be a tweet, which tend to be all over the place in content and tone.

I have a dog - my very first dog ever. She's an old dog. 14 and a half, to be exact. And with age, comes certain...issues for dogs, as they do with people and houses. Sometimes it's deafness, sometimes it's creaky old bones, frames or roofs. My dog (and her companion, who we had to put to rest a year or so ago) choose to exhibit oldness by *ahem* losing control of her "pipes," as is were - they burst and leak all over my house. It's hard, because we struggle between wanting to spoil the living daylights out of her just for putting up with us so long, and wanting to strangle her as we drag out the Little Green Machine and Simple Solution for the umpteenth time this week.

And right now, she's curled up in her bed, asleep, completely oblivious to the fact that just looking at her makes me cry, knowing that she's getting to the end of her life.

Getting old sucks.

 

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Larry & Jacque Ficek
Alaska Dream Makers - Wasilla, AK
Realtors - Wasilla Alaska

Hi Josh and Dawn, I am sorry you are going through this. It is hard but it is the best job we can do for them to make them comfortable and not let them suffer. We had to put our little guy down a couple years ago (we adopted him when he was 9 and he made it to 17 1/2 before we had to put him down).

Our little girl is now 14 (we have had her from the litter) and she is aging quicker than I want. She does have a pill that she takes once a week though to keep her bladder issues in check though. They seem to work great. You might ask your vet if something like that would help. Of course, she is also on some light pain meds to ease her arthritis when she creaks too much also and she is a lot slower and more deliberate than she used to be.

She is worth all the vet visits, the peanut butter bill for hiding the pills, the carrying her outside in the morning as her little bones take longer to wake up and everything else we deal with. She is our four legged kid.

Good luck with everything, you are not alone. :)

Jacque & Larry

Feb 09, 2011 04:16 PM
Josh & Dawn McKinley
Peoria, AZ

Thanks for the kind words, Jacque & Larry. I do appreciate them.

Feb 10, 2011 04:38 AM
Larry & Jacque Ficek
Alaska Dream Makers - Wasilla, AK
Realtors - Wasilla Alaska

Absolutely, Josh and Dawn!

J & L

Feb 10, 2011 06:04 AM