Caring for Your Senior Pets : Retired Doodles

As our pets get older, so do their daily requirements change. If you want to provide comfort and long-lasting health for your resident non-human, you may need to adapt a few aspects of their lifestyle. Here are a few recommendations.

Exercise for Retired Doodles

Even in their later years, your pets still need exercise to keep fit and upbeat. This might sometimes pose a challenge, especially if you’re worried about their safety on certain outdoor terrains or around other animals. The solution is to provide for them an area where they’ll be free to roam without any fear of hazards or take them to a spot that you know provides the conditions for safe and comfortable exploration. The alternative to this is actually buying equipment that will allow them to exercise from indoors - dog treadmills, for example, come in a number of sizes, weights, and speeds to accommodate your needs.

Diet Retired Doodles

As our animals grow older, so do their dietary requirements often change. Senior cats, for example, tend to require highly digestible food with plenty of moisture and a different set of vitamins from when they were kittens. The best way to ascertain the right dietary change for your particular pet, is to carry out plenty of research and create a plan, ensuring that whatever you’re feeding them will help their joints and provide plenty of nutrients.

Medical Checkups Retired Doodles

The truth is, we don’t know our pets’ bodies as well as we know our own. If you want to ensure that they’re comfortable and functioning well, the only sure way is to check at the vets. Make sure you’re taking your pet in for regular checkups and getting on top of any particular issues early on - even if there’s nothing you can do to fix the problem itself, there’s a good chance that the pet professionals will be able to provide medications that can alleviate the pain or symptoms that come with the issue.

Accessibility Retired Doodles

When humans get older, we tend to make alterations to our home to better accommodate any debilitations - if you want to go the extra mile to make life easier for your pet, it might be worth doing the same. These can often be minor, inexpensive purchases such as mini ramps, elevated food bowls, or warm, comfy fleeces to help keep out the cold. Pay close attention to our pets’ daily routines and you’ll often be able to spot the areas they struggle with - older birds, for example, will sometimes get sore feet from standing on their perches too long.

Care and Attention Retired Doodles

The most important item on this list is often the most overlooked. As our pets grow older, their requirements for love and attention remain firmly in place but their ability to attract it might have diminished. Oftentimes, they might want to come over and get our attention, or join in with our activities but lack the ability to move around freely - in these cases, it’s important that we go an extra step and take time out of our day to provide our resident non-humans with quality time.

It’s one of life’s sad realities that we tend to outlive our pets. The best we can do for ourselves and our animals is often to ensure that their twilight years are comfortable and full of new (if a little less action-packed) adventures.

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