OFF TOPIC - old dog losing its mind

Larry Reese · (This post was last modified: 09-20-2012, 11:37 PM by Kool Kat.)

We have an old dog; all outdoors, she doesn't come inside. Really great demeanor, friendly and smart; very obedient of voice commands. Well, over the last few weeks she's been displaying signs of senility or something.

A few weeks back she took raw chicken off a platter of fajitas I was about to grill and started gnawing on it, twice. Once after having been reprimanded the first time (never EVER done that kind of thing before).

Never been one to chase cats or the like, like I said, placid, but still isn't wont to let others (like birds) scarf from her food bowl. The last week or so she's let this neighborhood cat come and eat out of her dish while she concentrates on eating birdseed. In case you guys are wondering, birdseed doesn't meet all a dog's nutritional requirements.

Weird.

Peace out.

LR

Wolfman · 09-10-2012, 05:50 PM,

How do you define old Larry? My Rough Collie is 14 and starting to dodder a bit. I hope she's going to be ok for you

(09-10-2012, 01:05 PM)Larry Reese Wrote: We have an old dog; all outdoors, she doesn't come inside. Really great demeanor, friendly and smart; very obedient of voice commands. Well, over the last few weeks she's been displaying signs of senility or something.

A few weeks back she took raw chicken off a platter of fajitas I was about to grill and started gnawing on it, twice. Once after having been reprimanded the first time (never EVER done that kind of thing before).

Never been one to chase cats or the like, like I said, placid, but still isn't wont to let others (like birds) scarf from her food bowl. The last week or so she's let this neighborhood cat come and eat out of her dish while she concentrates on eating birdseed. In case you guys are wondering, birdseed doesn't meet all a dog's nutritional requirements.

Weird.

Peace out.

LR

Larry Reese · 09-11-2012, 02:28 AM,

13 or 14 or so.

LR

Wolfman · 09-11-2012, 05:09 AM,

(09-11-2012, 02:28 AM)Larry Reese Wrote: 13 or 14 or so.

LR

About the same as Monty - I know he has not long to go just enjoying his last years, I miss the long walks with him chasing a ball but now the walk is all he can manage.

Chuck10mtn · 09-20-2012, 02:00 AM,

Larry,
Having put down my friend of 13 yrs a chocolate lab, this past Feb, enjoy the time you have left. Dogs will eat just about anything, my one dog eats the others poop in the winter time, we just call them poopcicles.

Outlaw Josey Wales · 09-20-2012, 02:35 AM,

Don't know. We're talking raw chicken, whch could carry salmonalle and kill a human, but don't know about dogs. Possibly a trip to the vet?

Liebchen · 09-20-2012, 03:17 AM,

A couple of years ago I had put down my white German shepherd. He was 12 1/2. Best dog ever.

In his last few months, he started licking up the dirt from gopher mounds during our walks. I figured that he was attracted by the minerals in the soil.

It's hard to watch our old friends get older...

Larry Reese · 09-20-2012, 12:56 PM,

All very true. And no, not salmonella (I watched for any signs of illness). Just craziness. The dog's also backed off the all-birdseed diet and is back on dog food. Did go over and lick the ground where I poured juice from fajitas I was bar-b-queing... about 24 hours later. Just liked the smell.

On a more serious note, getting cataracts so isn't seeing so good. But as long as the dog is not in pain and still enjoying life we're good with it.

Knew a person once who paid 5000 dollars for a hip replacement for a dog. Can't afford that kind of thing at all.

LR