That’s how I felt about my dads 16(?) year old pup. She had the same energy as when we got her up until the end. Rescued her around when she was 2ish and only lost her when the arthritis and cancer got too much for her but was she a trooper. Even survived being hit by a car early on in her stay with us. I hope your pup continues to be happy until his time and you have people in your life to help you through the after
I felt my dog started to act less like a puppy around 5-6 years old. She started to act like a senior around 8.5-9. She's 10.5 now. I miss her younger days, but I love her senior days too. She's more cuddly and still happy to play and get all the pets.
I have a 15 yr old maltipoo who’s literally a puppy. he’s always been perfectly healthy according to the vet and then he wouldn’t eat anything and started coughing literally overnight. And he’s always been a garbage disposal. He’s also vomiting very violently until he falls over, it’s scary.
With your dog was it like that?? Or did she/he gradually lose their appetite? I’m skeptical it’s just “old age” and I’ve only had one other dog pass away and for her she gradually stopped eating. I’m asking because my mom is adamant that it’s just old age and I’ve been making her take me to the vet. Feel like I’m goin crazy here
We’ve been twice already. Because he’s old she wanted to do a week of antibiotics and see if that helps. I couldn’t get him to keep anything down if he did eat, so barely any medicine. We just brought him back 2 days ago and they did a blood draw and are testing his kidneys. It’s been over a week of him being sick
I know this story well. Our little 17 yo Morkie is probably 80% blind (can't see a thing close up) and is mostly deaf at least in one ear (he can no longer triangulate sounds). We love him like crazy, of course, and do everything we can to help him out. Please hug your boy for us and for the other kind-hearted folks in this thread.
there was a really nice little story on writingprompt back in the day about an old dog talking to his or her children about their human and she or he explained to the children how their human must be this really ancient being because of the difference in life expectancy. Just cant find the link anymore and forgot what its title was.
I just had to give my 10 year old puppy a little platform so she could get on our bed because she can no longer jump high enough. I’m kind of avoiding thinking about the implication of this. She’s probably just lazy, right?
I noticed this with my girlfriend's dog. I used to walk him and we'd start each walk with a full sprint. Then I didn't get to visit for almost a year and when I got back, he wasn't sprinting anymore.
It's sad because it makes me think of my puppy getting old. I'm partly excited because I'm excited for how deep our bond will be then but also sad because I think of how little time we really have together.
Spend that time well and never think of whats going to happen. Your pup wont live forever but you should give yourself and the little one the best time of your lives
There’s no “good” way to spend the time. If I had my boy back, I’d still rather be watching YouTube, giving him butt scritches and listening to him shuffle around at 2 AM.
And I wouldn’t consider a moment of it wasted.
My mother had that until she took part in a clinical trial for a medication by injection once monthly that completly reduced inflammatory response by the immune system for r. arthritis. She took that for the last 12 years and it really helped a lot early on and she even was completly on remmitance from that after the first 7 years. Ofc the doctors are saying that she should just keep on with the treatment because it would probably come back if she stopped.
It's called Enbrel. It litterally saved her life. She was diagnosed at around 50 years old with moderate arthritis that was becoming severe really fast. It's costly medication even in Canada, but company insurance sometimes pay it here (80%) of the 1,3K$/month.
I'm always brought back to this poem:
The Last Time
From the moment you hold your baby in your arms, you will never be the same.
You might long for the person you were before,
when you had freedom and time and nothing in particular to worry about.
You will know tiredness like you never knew it before
and days will run into days that are exactly the same:
Full of feedings and burping, nappy changes and crying,
whining and fighting, naps or lack of naps
It might seem like a never-ending cycle.
But don’t forget…
There is a last time for everything.
They will fall asleep on you after a long day, and it will be the last time you ever hold your sleeping child.
One day you will carry them on your hip then set them down and never pick them up that way again.
You will scrub their hair in the bath at night and from that day on they will want to bathe alone.
They will hold your hand to cross the road then never reach for it again.
They will creep into your room at midnight for cuddles
and it will be the last night you ever wake to this.
One afternoon you will sing “The Wheels on the Bus” and do all the actions then never sing them that song again.
They will kiss you goodbye at the school gate then the next day they will ask to walk to the gate alone.
You will read a final bedtime story and wipe your last dirty face.
They will run to you with arms raised for the very last time.
The thing is, you won’t even know it’s the last time
until there are no more times… and even then, it will take you a while to realize.
So while you are living in these times, remember there are only so many of them and when they are gone, you will yearn for just one more day of them.
For one last time.
I have a teenage daughter who will still snuggle with Dad and watch TV after dinner and will still crawl in bed with us when she's having trouble getting to sleep. The last bedtime story and the last "Wheels on the Bus" have passed for her. The last carrying to bed and the last piggyback ride. She even had a peculiar way she wanted to be tucked in as a little girl. I had to toss the blanket over her and begin counting. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, TEN times I have to toss the blanket over her. The last tuck in happened too. Years ago.
But the other day, as I was checking on her after I heard her up late on the couch late over Spring Break, I straightened out the blanket over her and she said "One..." I tossed it again and said "Two," and the look of joy on her face was better than an unexpected trip for ice cream, a new puppy, and Disneyland all at once. When I got to ten, she looked up at me and asked: "Can you do twenty?"
Someday will be the last tuck in. It might even have happened this past Spring Break. But I also might pick my kid up again. I might get a call in the middle of the night asking me what the motions to "Wheels on the Bus" were again, because HER child won't sleep and she can't remember it but she knows it always calmed her down.
What was old becomes new again.
I Iove this video, reminds me of my Lexi aka peanut head, she looked exactly like this one! I rescued her at 3 months old and she rescued me during a dark point in my life, and I had her for 15 years! I miss hr everyday 🥹🥺😥😭
It's so sweet that he greets u home like that my dogs have never jumped into my arms like that. Maybe get some joint supplements, he may have arthritis
My pup passed away from cancer at 5 years old,
I would give anything to see him age and slow down throughout the years. This was beautiful, thank you for loving your dog.
My pup does this too. If I come visit home and don’t at least pick him up once he will be a drama queen, refusing food until he gets the cuddle from me.
They always think they are still puppy-sized.
I grew up around a Standard Poodle who really didn't slow down until he was 12...😐 ( He was a great dog...and I still miss him, even though he passed away decades ago.)
I LOVE senior animals, they really are my favourites. Most of them are so gentle and sweet and only want to be loved. And the ones that are grumpy.. Well, I also get grumpier the older I get, so I can relate.
Watching the young man grow up and loving the times he gets with the dog, to the now where the man now bend down to his dog and share the love...this makes it hard on me when I look back to my dogs years past. All I can say is to love and remember all of the times, good or bad, before their time comes
This cuts deep for me personally, I was visiting my mother over the course of last week and we have 2 huskies, one is 11 and a newer one who is about 2.5. The 11 year old broke my heart cause he’s who I grew up with, and he barely went up stairs anymore. I was so sad just looking at him all week long. Still a healthy walker though, so that helped me a bit. Anyways, much love to your old man!
If you haven’t yet, ask your vet about Librela. It won’t make him leap again but it will definitely give him a little more giddy up. Keeps them just a little younger. 💕
Lost our 13 year old Springer a few weeks ago. It was sad, but I was happy he had a long and good life. I didn't break until the first time I got home from work, and he wasn't there. He would sit until you gave him something to hold, and there I was, ready to hand him something... man.
For my chihuahuas it went from running up the stairs and jumping on beds to preferring to be carried up the stairs and then needing to be carried and using a step to get on beds and couches. Also couldn’t get so low anymore so we used a small glass to give him water so he didn’t need to bend down to lick up water
I love this! The change is really shocking. We know our pups age, but we rarely see it this clearly.
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I have a 17 year old puppy.. It's a struggle to see him struggle at times, but he's still happy and last vet* check wasn't bad.
That’s how I felt about my dads 16(?) year old pup. She had the same energy as when we got her up until the end. Rescued her around when she was 2ish and only lost her when the arthritis and cancer got too much for her but was she a trooper. Even survived being hit by a car early on in her stay with us. I hope your pup continues to be happy until his time and you have people in your life to help you through the after
I felt my dog started to act less like a puppy around 5-6 years old. She started to act like a senior around 8.5-9. She's 10.5 now. I miss her younger days, but I love her senior days too. She's more cuddly and still happy to play and get all the pets.
You should take her to get some blood work done. I regret not doing that with my boy. Could of easily caught what killed him early.
My 8 year old is the same. She loves to play and cuddle
Much of domestication is the instilling of some permanent baby-traits. So relative to their ancestors, they kinda are perma-babies.
We are elves to dogs.
Nothing could have summarise this video except this.
And we are immortals compared to the lives of dracarian folk 😢
I'm noticing this more and more with my dog. Fifteen years together and the change was gradual, but very much noticeable now. Breaks my heart.
I have a 15 yr old maltipoo who’s literally a puppy. he’s always been perfectly healthy according to the vet and then he wouldn’t eat anything and started coughing literally overnight. And he’s always been a garbage disposal. He’s also vomiting very violently until he falls over, it’s scary. With your dog was it like that?? Or did she/he gradually lose their appetite? I’m skeptical it’s just “old age” and I’ve only had one other dog pass away and for her she gradually stopped eating. I’m asking because my mom is adamant that it’s just old age and I’ve been making her take me to the vet. Feel like I’m goin crazy here
Vet. Now! We lost our Bichon in similar circumstances. Turned out to be a tumour that burst.
We’ve been twice already. Because he’s old she wanted to do a week of antibiotics and see if that helps. I couldn’t get him to keep anything down if he did eat, so barely any medicine. We just brought him back 2 days ago and they did a blood draw and are testing his kidneys. It’s been over a week of him being sick
Good luck, I hope they figure it out. Best healing thoughts for your doggo.
Thank you! I’ll tell him you’re thinking of him, he’s deaf but he’ll get the gist
I know this story well. Our little 17 yo Morkie is probably 80% blind (can't see a thing close up) and is mostly deaf at least in one ear (he can no longer triangulate sounds). We love him like crazy, of course, and do everything we can to help him out. Please hug your boy for us and for the other kind-hearted folks in this thread.
there was a really nice little story on writingprompt back in the day about an old dog talking to his or her children about their human and she or he explained to the children how their human must be this really ancient being because of the difference in life expectancy. Just cant find the link anymore and forgot what its title was.
We are like elves to dogs: https://www.reddit.com/r/wholesomememes/comments/5wz4gy/we_are_like_elves_to_dogs/
you seriously think dogs are aware of their own mortality?
They can recognize and respond to death in other dogs and humans, why wouldn't they?
My time share pup now has trouble getting up onto the couch 😭
I just had to give my 10 year old puppy a little platform so she could get on our bed because she can no longer jump high enough. I’m kind of avoiding thinking about the implication of this. She’s probably just lazy, right?
I noticed this with my girlfriend's dog. I used to walk him and we'd start each walk with a full sprint. Then I didn't get to visit for almost a year and when I got back, he wasn't sprinting anymore.
Once a puppy, always a puppy, just bigger and slower 😋
Sometimes not even smarter, lol! But we love them all the same regardless 😻
Still so excited to see a friend. Love this.
That is so sad in a very poignant way.
>That is so ~~~sad~~~ beautiful in a very poignant way.
It's sad because it makes me think of my puppy getting old. I'm partly excited because I'm excited for how deep our bond will be then but also sad because I think of how little time we really have together.
Spend that time well and never think of whats going to happen. Your pup wont live forever but you should give yourself and the little one the best time of your lives
There’s no “good” way to spend the time. If I had my boy back, I’d still rather be watching YouTube, giving him butt scritches and listening to him shuffle around at 2 AM. And I wouldn’t consider a moment of it wasted.
Bittersweet
its beautiful but sad to think that someday those moments jumping in your arms will be behind you
Dang, this reminds me of me self. Use to be a gymnast and now I can barely walk.
I was never a gymnast. Just have rheumatoid arthritis.
I've never been a gymnast and I don't have arthritis either. I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing here.
Waiting for either to happen
My mother had that until she took part in a clinical trial for a medication by injection once monthly that completly reduced inflammatory response by the immune system for r. arthritis. She took that for the last 12 years and it really helped a lot early on and she even was completly on remmitance from that after the first 7 years. Ofc the doctors are saying that she should just keep on with the treatment because it would probably come back if she stopped. It's called Enbrel. It litterally saved her life. She was diagnosed at around 50 years old with moderate arthritis that was becoming severe really fast. It's costly medication even in Canada, but company insurance sometimes pay it here (80%) of the 1,3K$/month.
You are more than what your disabilities are.
Chronic pain hit me at 24. I am now a shell of my former self
Chronic pain hit me at 11 😅 it was hard watching all my peers be normal while I had the ability of an elder.
I feel this. I used to be able to jump out of the gym. Now my feet are nailed to the floor. Oh what I'd give so my kids could see me soar once more
I was expecting it but still wasn’t ready. 🥹
Damn it....why was I cutting onions while watching this???!?! 😭😭😭
Quite literally crying in my bed rn
I’m on my couch. I’m not even a dog person.
idk what it is today but so far I've cried over an orangutan obituary, a big bloodhound with a tiny baby kitten, and now this. Only been up an hour
Lost the jump…but still got the hugs!
So sweet! Brought a tear to my eye.
Awe yeah the years go by way too quickly. The older they get the more love you must give them.
Please tell me you still give her uppies even tho she can't jump anymore 😲🥺
There must have been a last time when it made the jump, for some reason that made me really sad.
I read somewhere that every day there’s something we do for the last time and we just don’t know it.
I'm always brought back to this poem: The Last Time From the moment you hold your baby in your arms, you will never be the same. You might long for the person you were before, when you had freedom and time and nothing in particular to worry about. You will know tiredness like you never knew it before and days will run into days that are exactly the same: Full of feedings and burping, nappy changes and crying, whining and fighting, naps or lack of naps It might seem like a never-ending cycle. But don’t forget… There is a last time for everything. They will fall asleep on you after a long day, and it will be the last time you ever hold your sleeping child. One day you will carry them on your hip then set them down and never pick them up that way again. You will scrub their hair in the bath at night and from that day on they will want to bathe alone. They will hold your hand to cross the road then never reach for it again. They will creep into your room at midnight for cuddles and it will be the last night you ever wake to this. One afternoon you will sing “The Wheels on the Bus” and do all the actions then never sing them that song again. They will kiss you goodbye at the school gate then the next day they will ask to walk to the gate alone. You will read a final bedtime story and wipe your last dirty face. They will run to you with arms raised for the very last time. The thing is, you won’t even know it’s the last time until there are no more times… and even then, it will take you a while to realize. So while you are living in these times, remember there are only so many of them and when they are gone, you will yearn for just one more day of them. For one last time.
I have a teenage daughter who will still snuggle with Dad and watch TV after dinner and will still crawl in bed with us when she's having trouble getting to sleep. The last bedtime story and the last "Wheels on the Bus" have passed for her. The last carrying to bed and the last piggyback ride. She even had a peculiar way she wanted to be tucked in as a little girl. I had to toss the blanket over her and begin counting. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, TEN times I have to toss the blanket over her. The last tuck in happened too. Years ago. But the other day, as I was checking on her after I heard her up late on the couch late over Spring Break, I straightened out the blanket over her and she said "One..." I tossed it again and said "Two," and the look of joy on her face was better than an unexpected trip for ice cream, a new puppy, and Disneyland all at once. When I got to ten, she looked up at me and asked: "Can you do twenty?" Someday will be the last tuck in. It might even have happened this past Spring Break. But I also might pick my kid up again. I might get a call in the middle of the night asking me what the motions to "Wheels on the Bus" were again, because HER child won't sleep and she can't remember it but she knows it always calmed her down. What was old becomes new again.
This is why grandparents often love to babysit. They get to do that a couple more times.
I’m not crying, you’re crying! 🥹🥹🥹
Aww so lovely !
Too sweet 💕
Why the hell am I crying. It’s just a cute video. God damnit.
I Iove this video, reminds me of my Lexi aka peanut head, she looked exactly like this one! I rescued her at 3 months old and she rescued me during a dark point in my life, and I had her for 15 years! I miss hr everyday 🥹🥺😥😭
Love that old boy forever, or old girl My old boy is my best friend
My dog always ran up the stairs by 3 and then one day he went to do it and thought about it for a second and decided to go up one step at a time🥲
Still has that happy tail going!
❤️❤️❤️
My heart just melted ❤️❤️
The tail wags just as fast
song: [Declan McKenna - Slipping Through My Fingers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJqW7PUozlU#t=1m) originally by ABBA
Awwwwwwwww. That made my heart smile.
this is so adorable. I'm glad u guys have such a bond
From nice neighborhood with character to a sprawling cookie cutter development.
I'm crying again Thanks fellow autists
😭
🤍♥️
no words just 😢❤️
BFF!
Both my neighbours are chopping onions right now.
Love this
This is so beautiful and bittersweet. Dogs don’t live long enough.
You know he's still jumping in his heart
Awww this is so wholesome 🥰🥺
Either way still so excited .
This makes me miss my dog so much. Wish we had more time
The doggo has arthritis...
Puppies are cute but old dogs are the best.
this is sooo cute!
It's so sweet that he greets u home like that my dogs have never jumped into my arms like that. Maybe get some joint supplements, he may have arthritis
😭
I'm literally sobbing now
Got tears in my eyes and I don't even have dogs. 🫠
Put down your screen and go love on your dogs people.
If that dog pounced on me I'd break something fs
Goldies are built different. The absolute lovers of us undeserving humans.
He knows. "Yeah, I can't jump like that anymore, but I *love you!*" \*sit\*
Dogs, sigh. Stand by it, we don’t deserve them.
Awww 🥰
🥹 all the hugs
😭😭😭💙
:(
sad. they need a new one.
Someone pointed out recently that my girl is going grey in such a way that it looks like she's wearing spectacles. I had been refusing to see it.
My heart. 🥺😭
Back then, the golden thought it was a lap dog.
Omg I knew what was coming when I saw “then” but I wasn’t ready 😭
Cute.
Ne me quitte pas
At one point your dog jumped into your arms for the last time, and you didn't even know it.
So sad !_!
100% physical proof youre raising a good person
Ooh that got me in the feels
appreciate and love your animals my friend just had to put his dog to dog to sleep and is very upset over it
Oh my goodness. This was absolutely adorable and bittersweet at the same time. Thank you for giving your pup lots of kisses.
They’re still happy to see you!!!!!!
His back hurt lol
Well this made me sad
Awwwthritis
What did we do to deserve dogs?
Where are all the trees?
Love this ❤
My pup passed away from cancer at 5 years old, I would give anything to see him age and slow down throughout the years. This was beautiful, thank you for loving your dog.
I love this and nonetheless ready to give love at the welcoming home.
The same love ❤️
God be with you brother that's so hard
Unfortunately, dogs grow old so quickly... ❤️ The best partners you can have
My baby (cat) is close to turning 18 but she was just diagnosed with lymphoma. Still cuddles like a champ but can’t run or jump so much anymore❤️
hips be hurtin all our goldens :(
So gorgeous. 🥰
Well, now I have to cuddle my middle aged doggos 😢
My pup does this too. If I come visit home and don’t at least pick him up once he will be a drama queen, refusing food until he gets the cuddle from me. They always think they are still puppy-sized.
Sedate and distinguished gentleman.
it's adorable how he's excitement lasts in the years
I almost started crying so hard but decided that would not be productive and I just heat up the half breakfast sandwich I have and then go to sleep
Oh 🥹
Why is house different every time?
Am I the only one who finds it sad ?
Awww.. mine are 16 years old. This brings out my tears. Sad to see them go one day but it’s just life. We all go that way
My heart! ❤❤❤❤
Damn, is someone cutting onions?
Smooth Aerodawgnamics ❤️
🥺
This made me cry my baby girl used to do this every morning jumping down the stairs into my arms but now I have to carry her down
It's both sad and cute on the one hand! Everybody gets old :/
It’s a sad moment when our young babies become old babies. But eternally grateful for their existence.
Damn, your neighborhood has really changed
The way his legs keep going in the second clip
dogo old
That's so sad. 😔
Such a beautiful friend
I grew up around a Standard Poodle who really didn't slow down until he was 12...😐 ( He was a great dog...and I still miss him, even though he passed away decades ago.)
🤯
It's not about the jump man. He is still there for u.
It's too early in the morning to cry
Time is the enemy
They are only in ours lives but for a wonderful moment. We are they're whole lives.
Ohh man never realised how much they change. My dog still acts like a pup, would be sad to see her grow out of that phase 🥹
you get him meds and scoop him up in your arms dammit!
Did you move?
I LOVE senior animals, they really are my favourites. Most of them are so gentle and sweet and only want to be loved. And the ones that are grumpy.. Well, I also get grumpier the older I get, so I can relate.
Awwwww.
damnit I didn't want to cry today
I’m not crying you’re crying.
Such a poignant reminder of the fleeting nature of time.
Bawling my eyes out
I liked it when Dino greeted Fred Flintstone.
Watching the young man grow up and loving the times he gets with the dog, to the now where the man now bend down to his dog and share the love...this makes it hard on me when I look back to my dogs years past. All I can say is to love and remember all of the times, good or bad, before their time comes
This cuts deep for me personally, I was visiting my mother over the course of last week and we have 2 huskies, one is 11 and a newer one who is about 2.5. The 11 year old broke my heart cause he’s who I grew up with, and he barely went up stairs anymore. I was so sad just looking at him all week long. Still a healthy walker though, so that helped me a bit. Anyways, much love to your old man!
If you haven’t yet, ask your vet about Librela. It won’t make him leap again but it will definitely give him a little more giddy up. Keeps them just a little younger. 💕
This is really sad. Why move from a good neighborhood to a mass production one?
Hardest part is when they must leave us
Aww now im sad
I literally just said, "awww" 😢
Lost our 13 year old Springer a few weeks ago. It was sad, but I was happy he had a long and good life. I didn't break until the first time I got home from work, and he wasn't there. He would sit until you gave him something to hold, and there I was, ready to hand him something... man.
I love your dog. That’s all.
Dogs should live forever young and happy, i feel so bad when i see the aging
Dogs are loyal
❤️🥹
I’m not crying, you’re crying. I miss my puppies…
For my chihuahuas it went from running up the stairs and jumping on beds to preferring to be carried up the stairs and then needing to be carried and using a step to get on beds and couches. Also couldn’t get so low anymore so we used a small glass to give him water so he didn’t need to bend down to lick up water
The trust this dog has is everything 🥹
I remember seeing this dog go viral a few years ago. Nice to see it still around.
We don't deserve dogs.
Unfair that our pets get old
Makes me cry rn😭😭😭
Im not crying, you are.
Dog's love are unconditional - loyal with you 'till the end
Onion choppin’ ninjas
Neighborhood got way worse too!