5/13/2023 0 Comments Watch dog wispererIn this piece, I share with you all the lessons and tips I amassed from our time caring for Roxy, our old hound. As Roxy, our greyhound grew older, I acquired first-hand experience handling such problems and finding the best way to manage them. This friction leads to pain and inflammation. If your greyhound is a former racer, the cartilage between the bones may be destroyed due to overexertion leading to these bones rubbing against one another. Some of the most common things to watch out for as your greyhound ages are arthritis, osteosarcoma, and organ failure. Greyhounds particularly age fast due to their body size, poor sanitation, and nutrition from their early years on the track and overexertion of their bodies. Did you know that a dog’s biological age is seven to eight times older than their chronological age? Larger dog breeds age faster than smaller dog breeds.
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