This spring, our oldest dog already fifteen years old. Age does slowly, but surely noticeable: your hearing has deteriorated severely, due to age was diagnosed with a mild arthritis and their eyes to see it. The hearing she hardly seems to mind. Because, as a typical Spitz hybrid of southern Italy, has always been very attentive and responded to hand signals, we now communicate more with gestures - but usually we know even without many words and grand gestures, what would one from the other - after years of This gathering is perhaps all by itself.
Osteoarthritis makes itself felt in so far that Mora does not jump as much as in recent years. But extensive, albeit quiet walks or even swim in the sea (the only one of our dogs, who could develop a great passion for the moist element), does so far no harm. As our veterinarian Moras general condition for their age is very satisfied, we can not really complain, especially when I consider with what health problem much younger dogs to fight already have.
In terms of nutrition, I have not yet changed. Our dogs have been almost four years "Gebarft. The shift from the usual dry food to BARF came after us, now twelve year old Tommy, an allergy to wheat and oats developed. The change did all of our dogs very well. Mora has to this day, especially for a dog her age, a very good skin. For years, they quickly got problems with streaming eyes - which has disappeared entirely from the diet.
Mora has of course still a very good appetite (as opposed to the Futtermäkler, who was in his early years), digested, and veal bones, chicken backs - wings or whole chicken legs still without problems and with a speed to our younger dogs in no way inferior.
We hope trigger further we spend many years with Mora. One must finally be the oldest dog in Italy!
Some pictures from this afternoon (and sometimes are Mora and I like traveling alone ;-))
For the first puddle we go about ...
... the second is already in the middle but by!
"Water Mirror"
Easy Mora ...
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