Your Dog is 15 Years Old

Your Dog is 15 Years Old

Maybe you had him since he was eight weeks old. Maybe you got him as an adult. But you’ve had him awhile and now he’s fifteen years old.

You’re moving to an apartment that doesn’t allow dogs. Or you’re moving someplace where he won’t have a yard and you’d actually have to walk him.

Whatever the case is, you don’t want to be bothered with him anymore.

The first dog I ever had I only had for two years. One day she ran past me as I went out to go to work because she saw a dog on the other side of the street. A truck zoomed by and in an instant she was dead.

The first puppy I ever had was the light of my life. But he was born with an aggressive degenerative nerve disease. I saw him go from an energetic puppy, full of life, to a dog that my sister and I had to carry downstairs from our apartment so he could go potty. We had to have him put down by the time he was two years old. There was nothing that could be done.

I adopted a little dog who the owner said was about fourteen years old. The woman said she wanted money for Christmas presents. When I first brought the little dog home, she acted like she didn’t know what grass was. She didn’t ever wag her tail. She was old and feeble. She never did learn to potty outside or on a pee pad. She only stayed with me one year before she had to be put to sleep. But before that happened, I got her to where she was readily wagging her tail.

If I could have had just one more year with any one of those dogs, I would have been overjoyed.

So your dog is fifteen years old now…