What we do with the old one?

The oldness of a dog or cat is the sum of the effects of the age outpost on the physical and neurological processes of animal. The senile dogs tend to be weak, deaf, sometimes, blind, with light incordinación, have a rough and dry hair. They can shake, they are close with which it surrounds to them, and some times forget the habit to return to house and the docilidad towards the people.
The cats present/display signs to a degree smaller such than the dogs, the loss of the ear, the vision and the weakness to rnuscular is less pronouncing in them.
On the other hand, any type of relation between the years of a person does not exist, corno so vulgarly is known. A dog or adult cat from the year and means of life, old considers themselves to after the ten.
The term of life of these animals is between ten and fifteen years, with an average of twelve years. This varies according to the race, nutritional form of life and habits. The dogs with overweight live less time.

The deterioration degree is proportional to the badly ciudado one that it occurred him during the life, specially after the time at which more problems in their organism appear, that is around the five or six years. When an animal appears to the consultation, we tried to give more importance to the owner, who to the routine practices. If a person or family has mimado to the dog or cat until he has been old, a deep affection exists, and the family (some members) is inclined to tolerate the urinary incontinencia, badly the temperament, the bad scents, etc, is difficult to give a totally satisfactory answer.

The senile animals are due to deal with gentleness and smoothness. It must consider the state of the mouth, teeth, encías, tumors, etc. The loose teeth that are implanted in encías infected must be extracted and to the rest to eliminate the ?fouling?, that is the main factor of badly the breath (halitosis).
Together with the annual desparasitaciones and revaccinations (moquillo, hepatitis and rages), the general state will be observed and the treatment will be applied that is necessary. In this stage of the life it is important to give an appropriate vitamin diet, rich, with the aggregate of geriatrical that they have like effect of being a general revitalizante. If the animal is suffering different symptoms, by irreversible causes that cannot be solved by via surgical clinic or, we suggested to the owner eutanasia. We know that this determination is not the result of the election of the easiest way, but of the impossibility of a complete recovery of the animal.
The decision of eutanasia not always is accepted by the owner, but we considered that to maintain an agony in which the dog to cat is disabled to make the minimum physiological necessities, it is not justified to prolong its life, considering the suffering of the animal.

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