We have come to the conclusion that our 14-15 year old lab has Alzeimer's. It is so sad to watch him and I really don't think he has much longer with us. We have a section of the backyard fenced off for him and our Australian Shepard.
When we are out we let them out with us. Jake (the lab) always comes out, but ends up pacing their fence or sitting at the gate like he is confused.
He paces ALL the time. He will no longer just sit down or lay down with us.
He cannot stand on concrete and trys not to walk on it much.
If he stands still his legs start shaking. It appears as though it is getting difficult for him to support his own weight.
All of this on top of the fact that he can barely see or hear. It will be a sad day when we have to make the horrible decision (which I fear is coming very soon) to put him down for his own sake.
Paul got Jake shortly after we started dating. There was a guy that delivered hay to his Dad and had Jake with him. They were talking about Jake and the guy said he was trained for hunting ducks, but he kept killing all of this guys chickens, so he was going to shoot him. Nice, you train a dog to kill birds and then you kill the dog for doing what you trained it to do. Paul took the dog instead. He has been, by far, the best dog we have ever had. Very friendly, GREAT with the kids, happy wherever we are at.
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