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I fostered a dog last year that everyone in the rescue had written off as "comfort care." She left my house nine months later running.
I want to tell you what happened, because I think a lot of you have a dog right now who's slowing down, and you don't know what to do about it. I didn't either.
I've been fostering senior dogs for a rescue in Lancaster for almost six years. I take the ones nobody wants: the 11-year-olds, the 13-year-olds, the ones with grey faces and bad bloodwork who get passed over at the shelter because everyone wants a puppy. I've had thirty-something old dogs come through my house at this point. I've stopped counting because the number started to hurt.
So when I tell you I know what dying-of-old-age looks like, I mean it. I've sat on my kitchen floor with old dogs and watched them go. I know the way their breathing changes. I know the way they stop meeting your eyes about a month before. I know what the last good day looks like, because I've had to recognize it more times than I want to talk about.
Which is why what happened with Murphy still messes with me a little.
Murphy was a 13-year-old beagle. His owner went into hospice last spring and the family couldn't take him, so he came to me. He was checked out. He'd find a corner of the living room and just lie there. He didn't follow me from room to room the way most dogs do. He didn't come to the kitchen when I was cooking. When I'd take him outside, he'd stand at the bottom of the porch steps for a full thirty seconds before he could make himself go up them. And I'd watch him, and I'd think, okay buddy. Okay. We'll just make this part as soft as we can.
He stopped eating around week two. Not a hunger strike, just disinterest. I'd put the bowl down and he'd look at it like it was furniture.
I'd seen this before. I knew where it was going.
A friend of mine who runs another foster network had been telling me for months about this senior supplement her rescue had started using. I'd nodded politely every time. I've tried supplements. The shelf in my pantry is a graveyard of them. Glucosamine chews from the big-box pet store. Some powder my vet sold me that smelled like fish meal and that nobody would touch. A "premium" thing I bought off Amazon at 11pm one night because the reviews were good and I was desperate. Murphy wouldn't have eaten any of them. He wasn't eating his actual food.
But she kept bringing it up. So I ordered it.
It's called Senior Daily. It's from a brand called Native Pet. It's a powder you sprinkle on their food, twelve things in one scoop. Joint support, cognition, heart, gut, immunity. The whole list of things that start to fall apart in an old dog's body, all in one place.
Here's the part I didn't expect: Murphy ate it.
I mean he ate the food it was on. The first night I put it down, he sniffed his bowl, looked up at me, and then ate the whole thing standing up. I stood in the kitchen with the empty container in my hand feeling slightly insane.
I'm going to be careful about what I say next, because I don't want to oversell this. I'm not a vet. I'm not a scientist. I'm a woman with a kitchen full of old dogs and too much emotional inventory in this.
But about three weeks in, Murphy started following me from room to room.
That was the first thing. He'd get up off his bed in the living room and pad after me into the kitchen. Then back to the bedroom. Then back to the kitchen. Like he'd remembered he had a person.
The stairs took longer. But by week six, he was going up the porch steps without stopping. By week eight, he was doing the stairs in the house. He started bringing me a stuffed pig — same stuffed pig, every morning, for like a month — and dropping it at my feet. The dog who came to my house to die was bringing me a toy.
He got adopted in November. By a retired couple who specifically wanted an old dog. He runs in their backyard now. They send me videos.
I want to tell you about my own dog now, because she's the reason I was even paying attention to what happened with Murphy.
Her name is Princess. I found her on the street about three years ago, matted and underweight. Because I rescued her, I never knew her as a puppy. I never got to watch her grow up. But I think I got to do something even better. I think I got to watch her age backwards.
We did one of those age tests last year. Turns out Princess is eight and a half, which technically makes her a senior, which I refuse to accept. She sleeps in a beanbag bigger than my bed. She has opinions about which side of the couch is hers. She is, by any reasonable measure, the love of my life.
So when Murphy started coming back, I started doing the math on how many years I had left with Princess, and realized that maybe I had a little more leverage on the math than I thought.
I started Princess on Senior Daily recently and she eats it off the scoop. I'm not even kidding. She drools when she sees the tin. The flavor is apparently beef broth and goat milk, and Princess just loves it.
Here's what six years of fostering old dogs has taught me: Most senior supplements are garbage. I'm sorry, but they are. The label looks like a chemistry set — fillers, binders, weird sugars, things you wouldn't put in your own body. Native Pet’s Senior Daily looks like food: Pork, pumpkin, cranberry. The kind of stuff I'd eat.
I'm not saying Senior Daily is a miracle. I'm saying I tried a lot of things before this one, and most of them ended up in a Tupperware in my pantry, untouched, while my old dogs got older.
I bought another tin yesterday. I have three fosters in the house right now plus Princess, and I'm not running out. They have a money-back thing if it doesn't work for your dog, which I think is kind of a generous offer for a supplement, but whatever. I haven't returned one.
Look. I'm not going to pretend I know what's going on with your dog. Maybe they're nine and starting to slow down on the walks. Maybe they're twelve and you're already in the part where you watch them get up from the floor and your stomach drops a little. Maybe you're like me three years ago and you've got a senior in your house and you just want to give them more good days.
If that's you, just go read about it. That's all I'm saying. Go look.
Murphy's running around a backyard in Pennsylvania right now bringing some retired guy a stuffed pig every morning. I think about that a lot.
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