Yesterday I prepared myself for having to say goodbye to Nova, she had huge problems walking up the few stairs to the entrance door in the evening and she hesitated to try and get up to the bedroom so I had to help her, she also had problems with her balance in her back legs. This morning she didn’t want to get up from her bed at all so guess if I was surprised when she suddenly came down skipped around and had no problems what so ever with any stairs 🙂 🙂 🙂
I’ve noticed that every time she has been in the dog yard she’s always worse the rest of the day and I’m pretty sure that’s because she refuses to stay in the comfortable dog house and instead has to wriggle her way in to the garage. So from now on if I’m only going to the store or not be away for a whole day she’ll stay in the cottage. It can’t be a good thing to wriggle around when one is that old and she already has problems with her legs 🙂
So she had no problems what so ever on our morning walk, sometimes she walked behind us and sometimes ahead of us 🙂 Alma however took a step or two back and was quite a pain in the a..e almost the entire way 🙂 🙂 🙂 I still think she has behaved a lot better on our walks lately so I’ll see this as a temporary setback. It is much more noisy in the forest now when almost all leafs have fallen off, leafs are terrific sound dampeners during summers. Today someone was working with a wheel loader somewhere and that winded her up a bit.
We haven’t had the nicest of weather today, still no wind and no rain but really grey and dull. It made me sleepy so some time during the day I fell asleep in the recliner with a kitten by my side and I have no idea for how long I slept 🙂 🙂 🙂 I think it was for too long though because I’m still tired 🙂 🙂 🙂 I really can’t complain about the weather to be honest, we’ve had unusually much sunshine and it has been unusually warm as well but now they say it’ll turn towards colder again, I’m not looking forward to it but as long as it doesn’t snow I’ll just keep on smiling 🙂
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
It is so hard to see our animals suffer as they age. I feel your heart ache.
On a totally unrelated note, I wanted to share with you the latest from Noel regarding his social media efforts:
“Our acquisition is firming up and looks to close in late november. we are already embedded and working on a new product with our acquiring company, and its exciting, but the social aspect of Post will develop over time, most likely through Q1 2025. So while we do expect to be back in a new realm of social, it will not exactly be a BlueSky/X experience but will certainly be a social app that I expect our posties to be excited about. more details soon.”
He shared this on Discord this morning.
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Hi ppekka!
She’s 18 years old o it can happen so fast but it looks like she’ll keep going for a while more 🙂
That looks great 🙂
Thank You!
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Malcomis now a handsome dog now he has matured. So sad when our dogs get older. My dog has turned blind and hard of hearing but he still seems happy. I have moved into a small cottage for seniors and he can find his way around easy enough. The best thing for us both is no stairs. I think if I lose him I will have to get a cat. Hope your health stays strong. Take care.
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He is the little guy 🙂
It is and no matter how much one knows it could happen any time one still can’t prepare for it.
Many of my old dogs went blind in old age but it never bothered them 🙂 The rest has turned deaf instead and that has never seemed to bother them either, they just kept on going like always 🙂 As long as they know we are close nothing will stop them from living their life 🙂
Yes stairs are always a problem especially with Nova who hates to be helped 🙂
Cats are never wrong and I say that as a dog person 🙂
Thank You I will 🙂
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