Senior Center

With Lyric's seventh birthday all of our pets (not including rabbits and one pig) became "seniors."  Granted a lot of them are "borderline" but still, it's a bit depressing.  Although the only one that is really geriatric is Zodiac.  And for the most part he seems to be doing well.  I had recently started him on Previcox as he seems to be having a little trouble getting up and stairs continue to be a bit of a challenge.  I had hesitated to do this as I think the Rimadyl had previously given him an ulcer.  But we tried anyway.  He seemed to be doing well on it but I happened to have him at work after a week of being on it and decided to run his senior panel and it again showed evidence of an ulcer.  I can't be sure but it seems the most logical cause for the bloodwork abnormalities.  And I'm not really willing to do a lot of invasive diagnostics on a dog that feels fine.  So we stopped the Previcox and started Prilosec.  We will just have to muddle along with Tramadol, Dasuquin, and j/d for now.

The other two will get bloodwork later this year and Icy in the spring.  Good thing I'm working so much to support all these old folks!