Old age is a subjective concept, because when a dog or cat is old? It is commonly believed that the animal enters the geriatric age, when it launches the last trimester predicted for the race of life expectancy.

Owners who want as long as you keep your pet in good physical shape, you should regularly monitor his health. Senior pet care should be conducted under the supervision of a veterinarian. Such inspections can provide early diagnosis of diseases in developing and seeking treatment at an early stage of the disorder.

When you visit a doctor, we can expect questions on ward behavior, his eating habits, as well as any observed changes. If necessary, the vet’s chest auscultation, OMAC abdomen, examine your eyes, males conduct an examination of the prostate and females of the mammary gland. It is important to save the next results of the animal. A blood test (morphology and biochemistry) and urine possible to assess how a major organ (kidney, liver, endocrine glands). It should have the following results for the comparison of the treatment.

If it is found that the results are within normal limits, the animal can be subjected to appropriate preventive treatments (deworming, odpchlenie, vaccination, etc.) If the results are questionable, ie, deviations are visible, but the animal feels well and shows no symptoms, the doctor will introduce treatment and will recommend another visit to repeat the test.
If the results are bad, that you can see the bias and animal shows symptoms, recommended treatment is either conservative or surgical, depending on the type and degree of disease severity.

We, as a dog’s best friend, give him appropriate care tailored to race, age, gender, physical activity. Adapted to chew and digest food. Prepared food for seniors often have a system of protection of the joints, prevent the formation of tartar. In the case of the traditional diet is important to balance the appropriate dose and mineral supplement formulations – witaminowymi.

We should remember about the regular activities of anti-parasite (internal and external parasites), regular procedures of hygiene – washing around the eyes, ears and teeth cleaning, brushing hair, about anal glands emptied.
With age, our dog changes the demand on the frequency and intensity such as walking dogs that have problems with joint or spine are recommended for frequent and less intense walking, and dogs with circulatory problems should not be forced to over-exertion.

Along with advancing age of our dog in his body, there is a lot of changes both in the motor – it is not so fast and agile, in the respiratory system and cardiovascular system – is no longer a constant in the common area, as well as the organs of sense smell, hearing, vision begins “play tricks” but remember, that still is our dearest friend in good and bad, although it is not as funny as a puppy. His happiness is in our hands.