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In reply to the discussion: How to care for a dog with dementia [View all]

alfie

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8. Thanks for your sduggestion
Tue Dec 31, 2024, 06:51 PM
Dec 31

Thanks for your suggestions and the hugs. I taught my last dog to use pee pads after she developed diabetes and needed to pee more often, frequently when I was asleep. I will try that with Maggie. I am letting Maggie sleep as much as she wants but may need to try to keep her up more if she develops sundowner syndrome. In that case she may stay awake all night, roaming around and maybe barking a lot. She isn't normally a barking dog but she isn't the dog I have lived for all these years. One suggestion I read about was using puzzle toys to stimulate her in the late afternoon/early evening to distract her and also exercise her brain and maybe slow down it's gradual decline. I casn start the music after we have had our play time.

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