Old Age

Poor Pippa - her old age is definitely creeping up on her. Recently celebrating her 14th birthday (that's 98 in people years!), Pippa has had a few trips to the vet in order to sort out her incontinence issues. Thankfully the sleep incontinence has been sorted out with the help of some medicine.

And so at the moment we are slightly regretting our decision not to include a dog door as Pippa now is unable to last the night (6 hours) without going for a wee and unfortunately we have been cleaning up a puddle every morning. Much to Pippa's disgust, we've put her in nappies!!

It's not only Pippa's waterworks that have become less reliable. Her memory, hearing and sight are all not as sharp as they used to be. For example, she frequently scratches on the back door wanting to go out only to have the door opened but then she refuses to head on out. A little push of encouragement gets her out the door, only for the door to close and her to turn around and tap back on the door wanting to come back in! This scenario can happen 4 times in 20 mins! This drives us all a little crazy but she doesn't seem to notice!