Does age and how they act impact age of death at all?
Did you sheepie live longer and act younger longer? And show no signs really of aging until they were old? Or do they sometimes go downhill really fast out of the blue I guess I'm just wondering b/c my parents' sheepie is 10 and she still is crazy and acts the same as she always has, so I'm just hoping this means that she has many more years left... |
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| Max lived to 13 or so (he was a rescue) and was very lively up until about 11 or 12. He did go downhill very quickly at the end. However, when I got the two new pups I realized how conditioned I had become to lively in a more mature dog compares to lively in puppies. |
| Weird. Weird. Weird.
On the very day I posted this totally random thought, my parents' sheepie went to sleep and never woke up...She was fine yesterday, running around chasing the cat like always, fine this morning, and then when my dad called to her to go outside this afternoon she didnt come. She was only 10  |
| Oh Steph I am very sorry to hear about your family's loss of Maggie. |
| What a shock! I am so sorry for your loss. |
| so sorry for your loss |
Steph, I am so sorry.  |
| Oh Steph! I am so sorry. Truely sorry. |
barney1 wrote: I'm just wondering if anyone who have had older sheepies has noticed... Our Shoopie lived to be 14 and we had to put her sleep due to her severe spinal pain and in the vet's office she all of a sudden perked up and another patient's owner asked me if she was a puppy. Really, I wanted to walk out of the office never to return. She really was a great girl and we miss her everydayDid you sheepie live longer and act younger longer? And show no signs really of aging until they were old? Or do they sometimes go downhill really fast out of the blue I guess I'm just wondering b/c my parents' sheepie is 10 and she still is crazy and acts the same as she always has, so I'm just hoping this means that she has many more years left... |
| I am so sorry for your loss -seems to me that subconciously you may have noticed a difference in her. |
| I'm so sorry to hear about Maggie. My first sheepdog also died in his sleep, at 11. I actually have always been grateful that he didn't have to suffer and that he died while sleeping (something all sheepies love) |
| I am so very sorry for your loss. My Max stayed like a puppy until 2 months before I had to help him cross the bridge. They are amazing. |
kerry wrote: I am so sorry for your loss -seems to me that subconciously you may have noticed a difference in her.
That'd be hard--I live across the country from her! Maybe just some random connection we had together... |
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