While they may experience a small amount more pain and have a longer recovery
time than a young puppy or kitten would, there are still health benefits.
Go Slow Many diseases requiring a prescription diet occur in older animals that may be more set in their
ways than a young puppy or kitten.
Fortunately, yes — there are definitely things that you can do to help her Adult dogs can make great strides in acclimating to new things, they just may take more time and focused
effort than a young puppy.
Older animals tend to stay at the shelter
longer than the young puppies and kittens, Jaws had to wait until the right family came along and he is now in a loving home.
But while old habits die hard and older dogs learn slower
than young puppies, what an older dog has going for him is that he has a much stronger bladder and bowel control than a younger puppy.