Determining a dogs age
We've had our little Bichon-poodle, Tiki, for 6 years. We rescued him from a kill shelter and almost literally raised him from the dead. Some intensive nursing on our part brought him back to life. At...
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Big Katuna wrote:
We had two black Standard Poodles. Sadie lived to almost seventeen and her boy almost fifteen. They never turned gray and looked like they did when they were five right up to about a year or two before they died. They age quickly and start losing weight when it’s time.
Our last dog was an 80-lb black Standard Poodle. Smartest dog in the world, so regal and stately. Sadly, he only lived to 11yrs old. As you said, when they start aging it can escalate quickly. He was frail for about a year and had multiple injuries due to arthritic joints. And then one day, he just started failing. We propped him up with meds and IV fluids a couple times, but within the week it was clear his time was up.
