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Coping with Pet Illness and Loss by Doug Koktavy

This post is excerpted from "Strategies to Cope with Caregiver Suffering" by Doug Koktavy, which can be found in its entirety, along with other resources, in Your Dog's Golden Years: A Manual for Senior Dog Care , edited by Jennifer Kachnic. Doug Koktavy is the best-selling author of The Legacy of Beezer and Boomer: Lessons...

Adopting a Senior Dog: How to Find Your New Best Friend by K.E. Magoon

Photo credit: Lukje / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND Older dogs are too often overlooked by potential adopters at shelters and rescues. However, those who adopt senior dogs find them to be wonderful companions — more mellow, better mannered, and quicker to adjust to their new homes than younger dogs. Whether you have been considering adopting...

A Senior Dog Adoption Story: Mary and Walter

Our most beloved dogs often come into our lives unexpectedly, a chance viewing of a photo on social media or an appeal to care for a dog in need. That is what happened to Mary when her daughter, longtime Grey Muzzle volunteer and former board member Chandra Conway, read about a senior Chocolate Brown Labrador...

A Day in the Life of a Hospice Foster Caretaker by Debbie Marks

Contributor Debbie Marks volunteers and fosters dogs for the Blind Dog Rescue Alliance (BDRA), a Grey Muzzle grantee. A grant from The Grey Muzzle Organization helps BDRA provide medical care for permanent fosters, including some of Debbie's past and current hospice foster dogs. On the day I write this, it is my summer vacation. I’m...