Hard Being an Old Dog …
SUGAR was fine one day, happy and playing … the next day, she’s not feeling well
SUGAR still smiling after vet visit …
Update 3/7 evening: SUGAR is eating a little bit and hoping her medications give her immediate relief. Golden Thanks for all the healing prayers. For immediate SUGAR’s health update, check our Golden Woofs Facebook Page.
According to Petfinder survey, senior pets have a harder time finding forever homes.
Old dogs can be just as cute as puppies.
7 Reasons To Adopt A Senior Dog
Adopt A Senior Golden Retriever
To celebrate November’s National Senior Pet Month and Adopt A Senior Pet Month, we partnered with Caru Pet Food. Caru means “to love” in Welsh. Caru Pet Food is “Nourish with Love.” We will share more about Caru Pet Food in our up-coming review post.
We are going to have several giveaways of Caru Pet Food Natural Stews. Make sure to check our Caru review post and posts about senior dog(s).
* There are many senior pets in shelter and looking for their forever home. You can help them by sharing and asking their shelter/rescue group to join 1-800-PetMeds and PetMeds Cares Contest. For more information, READ our post:
1-800-PetMeds Animal Shelter Appreciation Week Contest *
Golden Happy to co-host Black n White Sunday Blog Hop with Dachshund Nola.
Have a PAWsome FUN Sunday!
Lots of Golden L♥VE n Woofs
SUGAR
It’s National Deaf Dog Awareness Week, September 22-27. Hearing loss in dogs can occur for several reasons. The most common reason is due to old age. As a pet parent, it is very important to educate yourself on ways to care and how to communicate with your deaf dog. You want your dog to continue to live comfortable and be safe.
On Sugar’s last vet visit, it was confirmed the she is losing her hearing. For the past months, I’ve noticed a change in her obedience behavior. Sugar ignored many of my verbal commands. She was unresponsive to common house sounds like the house door alarm. Also, Sugar suddenly became sensitive to barometric pressure.
Many factors affect hearing loss in dogs. One of the factors that affected Sugar’s hearing is her chronic ear infections. Beside failure to respond when being called, here are
4 Simple Tests to Determine Your Dog’s Hearing Loss
1) When your dog is asleep, make some noises like clapping your hands. Did your dog wake-up?
2) Snap Fingers next to your dog’s ear. Did your dog react?
3) Play with your dog’s squeaky toys. Does your dog show interest to the sound?
4) Ear Check- Have your vet thoroughly check your dog’s ear.
The BAER (Brainstream Auditory Evoked Response) method is a more reliable test. It is costly but it can determine the degree of deafness in your dog.
Handling Hearing Loss in Dogs
The best way to communicate with a deaf dog is through hand signal commands.
Sugar is very fortunate to have learned many basic hand signals at a young age. The basic hand signals such as sit, stay and come are very useful. The watch me hand signal is crucial as it helps her to pay attention. Playing eye contact games are another method I’ve been using in handling Sugar’s hearing loss. I will share more about Sugar’s hearing loss on a future post.
Do you have a senior dog? Is Your Senior Dog Going Deaf?
Hearing loss should not diminish your dog’s quality of life.
