{"id":26998,"date":"2022-11-12T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=26998"},"modified":"2022-11-12T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T06:00:00","slug":"canine-cognitive-dysfunction-saturday-13th-november-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2022\/11\/12\/canine-cognitive-dysfunction-saturday-13th-november-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Canine Cognitive Dysfunction – Saturday 13th November 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Canine Cognitive Dysfunction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Those of you who have read the diary for a while will remember that towards the end of his long life Alfie suffered from Canine Cognitive Dysfunction (doggy Alzheimer\u2019s), sadly it is looking as though Shadow has gone the same way. With Alfie the condition came on slowly over quite some time and did start relatively young. First one symptom appeared and then after a while another and so on. With Shadow everything seems to have been more rapid. It\u2019s either that or she has suddenly started to behave oddly for no reason at all, just to keep us on our toes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sleeping in the bathroom<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

About three days ago when we all went to bed, she got up and wandered around the bedroom for a while and then went to sleep on the shower mat. Mum has also found her in there just staring at the wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday as the front door was open, Mum had to shut Shadow in her office briefly. Poor Shadow got so distressed she started launching herself against the door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then there\u2019s going to the toilet<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve already said that poor old Shadow has some problems with continence. Thankfully the medication she\u2019s on for the urinary incontinence seems to be working very well. However, she\u2019s forgotten the whole going to the toilet routine. Normally we go out at the same sorts of times of day. We do what we need to do and then come in. If Mum needs to go out she takes us outside and asks us to go then so we\u2019ll be comfortable for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, when Shadow goes outside she just wanders around totally oblivious to what she needs to do. Mum is having to be very alert and keep walking around with her and taking her to the places we\u2019ve just been, so she can smell that and it can help remind her to go. If Mum doesn\u2019t do that Shadow can just go when she gets back indoors or even as she\u2019s walking along the path to the house. Mum says it\u2019s like looking after a puppy again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Distress<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s her distress that\u2019s the worst. She gets very confused very easily and needs to be able to see Mum at all times. Even then she can stand staring at the wall and panting for no reason at all. The rest of the time she seems happy in her own little world, so Mum still thinks on balance she has quality of life but it\u2019s getting quite hard for all the rest of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shadow seems to have developed canine cognitive dysfunction (doggy Alzheimer’s). Wilma will tell you about it.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[118,27],"class_list":["post-26998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-health","tag-shadow","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}