Random p**ping elderly dog
We have a 14.5 year old female lab. More and more, she just poops without even seeming to know it. Since she is a house dog, you can imagine the difficulty this presents. We have an appointment sch...
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Snowman9000 wrote:
....We have an appointment scheduled to discuss this with the vet, but we have mentioned it in the past and no remedy was offered....
Snowman9000 - Could you please update this after visiting the vet? I'm curious what the vet will have to say after ignoring it in the past.
You can always get a second opinion if that vet dismisses it again.
As far as the poster that suggested the dog live the rest of its life outside instead of "putting the dog down" -- Don't you think that would be even worse for the dog? This dog is obviously treated as a member of the family (as it should be). If your mother/grandmother became incontinent and refused to wear diapers--would you put her outside in a doghouse for her remaining time? I would hope not.
