Canine/feline geriatrics

Over the past couple of months, we discussed the physical, emotional and psychological changes – that take place as dogs/cats become elderly. Let’s conclude this topic with a summary of those discussions, and with some other final considerations pertaining to the care of your ageing companion animals.

We had documented in a very detailed and comprehensive way, all those obviously visible and sometimes not so easily detectible alterations in an elderly animal’s inability to function optimally on a day-to-day basis. We do not need to list those again.

That being said, it must be recognized that some dogs/cats exhibit more pronounced changes than others, and in