02-10-2018, 01:12 PM
As someone who just lost a senior dog it is very hard to keep a senior dog trained and engaged. Buddy couldn't hear the last couple years of his life. Thankfully my mom and I are always very active with our hands when we talk. We had unintentionally taught him sign language all his life. So we could still communicate with him some. We used that as much as we could to still play and engage with him. We didn't have video games but we did what we could. The important thing to remember is to let them do as much as they. If you step in and help then they will learn to be helpless. Buddy kept going until his very last day. He stopped engaging as much though and was very senile his last few weeks. He couldn't remember that he had just gone outside or drank water. He lived a good long life considering we had him for 14 years not knowing where he came from and we just guessed he was a year old. He was a really good dog. He had a big loving personality that made everyone that met him love him.
