How to give a senior dog its best life?
Lilla Harber
2025-08-08 03:48:32
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Adapting your senior dog’s home environment and routine is important to ensure their comfort and wellbeing. Jamie recommends implementing these 6 changes and lifehacks to help make life easier for them. Avoid any impactful exercise such as jumping and ball catching. Add non-slip rugs to laminate/tiled floors to prevent slips. Raise food and water bowls off the floor. Add ramps to steps or flooring height changes where your dog may struggle. Get good quality, supportive bedding – try memory foam. Exercising regularly can help to keep their joints moving and give their minds regular mental stimulation, however, it’s important the exercise is little and often so that they are not doing too much that could cause harm to their joints. Using ramps is a great way of still enabling your pet to do these activities but without the stress on their joints that can cause discomfort. Discussing your pet’s needs with one of the vets or nurses at our Basingstoke practice can help you identify more of these simple changes that can make a big difference.