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Your Senior Dog: The Complete Guide to the Last Third of Your Best Friend's Life Nutrition, Mobility, Cognitive Decline, and Hospice
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 28 2026
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The gray is around the muzzle now. The walks are shorter. The dog who once launched yourself across the yard is taking the stairs one at a time.
And you want to do everything right.
Your Senior Dog: The Complete Guide to the Last Third of Your Best Friend's Life is the book that the owner of every aging dog needs. It is comprehensive, compassionate, and honest - a guide that takes seriously both the medical realities of aging in dogs and the emotional weight of caring for an animal you love with your whole heart.
Whether your dog is just entering the senior phase and you want to start well, or you are in the midst of managing a serious illness and need to understand your options, or you are approaching the end and need support for the euthanasia decision and the grief that follows - this book meets you where you are.
What you'll find inside: A clear framework for understanding what is normal aging and what requires veterinary attention; Honest, evidence-based guidance on nutrition - what the senior food label really means and what your dog actually needs; A multimodal approach to arthritis pain management that goes beyond NSAIDs to include rehabilitation medicine, environmental modification, and newer treatment options; A complete chapter on canine cognitive dysfunction (dog dementia) - what it is, how to recognize it, and what can actually be done; Guidance on common senior diseases - heart disease, kidney disease, liver disease, cancer, and hormonal disorders - with a focus on quality of life; The HHHHHMM quality of life scale and how to use it consistently to guide care decisions; A full exploration of palliative care and hospice for dogs - what it means, what it looks like, and how to provide it; Honest, compassionate guidance on the euthanasia decision - including when, how, and how to live with it; The truth about pet loss grief - its legitimacy, its specific qualities, and how to move through it; Practical caregiving guidance for the day-to-day - medication management, incontinence, mobility assistance, skin care, and the financial reality of senior dog care.
This book was written by a veterinarian who has sat with hundreds of families through the experience of their dog's senior years - and who has done it herself, personally, with her own beloved dog. It carries the knowledge of two decades of professional experience and the understanding of someone who knows that what you feel for your dog is not excessive and not silly. It is love, of the most real kind.
Your dog deserves the last third of their life to be fully lived. This book is how you make sure of it.
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