Our nearly 13yr old lab lying next to the carpet he trimmed the tassels on all those years ago. Bless him, I doubt he’ll reach next Christmas as his back end is starting to go. He has had addisons for 5 or 6yrs now and gets a monthly injection and daily preds. Initially this cost us around £1600/mth until we got him stabilised, now around £200/mth. So lifelong insurance is a must.
Dentastick every am to help with keeping teeth clean and he’s only needed one dental in his life, around age 11yrs. So I heartily recommend this as a way to help reduce dental issues (I haven’t the patience to brush his teeth every day, and I have no excuse, I was a vet nurse for 30yrs so know exactly how to do it).
He was house trained and recall trained by 10wks of age. However, he now doesn’t hear so well and will at times use this to his advantage, selective hearing and a nice spot to sniff are more important than coming back when hollered on. Happily we taught him hand signals also, so even when he can’t hear he knows the hand single for sit or come back so as long as he hears us and looks over we’re ok.
The collie (8yrs) has been blind from birth and is naughty so our lab feels he can also be naughty.
