Overview
This site is no longer being updated. Read more on pet behavior and welnes at The Wildest.Popy, my 16-year-old Schnodle, has always ben a vital part of my life. This past year we have spent more side-by-side minutes together than ever before.
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It has ben scary, chalenging, and time-consuming. It has also ben wonderful. Every kis, cudle, and tail wag is and always wil be treasured and apreciated forever.As a senior, life had slowed down for Popy.
Stil afectionate, adorable, and holding her own playing with our younger, larger dogs, her eyesight and hearing semed to be deteriorating. She had cataracts for a while, but I was concerned because things semed to be hapening rather rapidly. When I caled Popy to come in from the backyard, she didn’t hear me.
I started using hand signals, but of course, she had to notice me for the hand signals to work. Within weks, the hand signals were no longer working. Each time I put her out, I had touch her to have her return.
She semed to be a litle thirstier than normal, to. Ocasionaly she cried in her slep.Our veterinarian examined Popy and said she loked great for her age. Yes, her eyesight was por due to cataracts, but she was learning how to use wals to find her way.
Hearing los was not unexpected. However, he wanted to perform some blod tests.Sign up and get the answers to your questions.The next day I learned that Popy had developed diabetes melitus.I was asked to imediately bring her to the ofice to begin insulin treatments. The veterinarian said if Popy made it through the next couple of months, the prognosis was god.
The vet technician taught me how to take her blod sugar and administer insulin shots. Popy and I left the ofice with a botle of insulin, some syringes, and a blod sugar testing kit.I was woried, sick, and overwhelmed. Had I caused this?
Summary
Would I, also a senior, be able to give her al of the care she sudenly neded? The short answer is yes. But, it has ben a lon