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Yeah, it’s crap isn’t it? My girl Dizzy is 11 next March, and that’s getting old for a Maine Coon. She’s definitely not as glossy as she was a year or so back. I was due to pop her in to the vet today for her MOT but I’m as sick as buggery with a cold so it’ll have to wait. Age suddenly seems to creep up on them, doesn’t it?
Our neighbours brown lab Max has suddenly got very old and his arthritis is crippling him and he’s really struggling. All very sad.
Good luck to Fabric for the surgery.
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Things are starting to get pretty real with our beloved Fabric. He's 11 and the health problems are starting to stack up.
He has arthritis in his hips that is so bad that he drags his rear legs on the floor when he has a flare up. He was diagnosed four years ago but it has been progressing slowly until the last few weeks. We're hopeful that a medication change will make a big difference, the vet is certainly hopeful.
A more imminent problem is that he has absolutely horrendous dental problems and can barely eat now as the pain is so bad. The reason why we have put off the surgery for extractions for so long is that he has a very bad heart defect that means that there is always a significant chance that he won't survive a general anaesthetic. Now that he can't eat, our hand is forced. He's going in for some extractions on the 13th. Its going to be a nerve-wracking day.
He's a gentle and lovely little thing. We've built gently sloping ramps to all of his favourite high up sleeping spots and deployed a few heated beds in strategic places for when he's feeling particularly stiff and glum. We're also spoiling him rotten with his diet. If the chap can barely eat, might as well make sure what he is eating is his favourite!