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[quote=Anonymous]We had a German shepherd who stopped eating when he was about 14. He had hip trouble and avoided steps like the plague but he seemed comfortable walking. My parents have 3 acres of property and he had a routine of walking along the border until the day he died. He also made a little girlfriend, a gorgeous golden retriever puppy from next door, "Lucy." He would always make an effort and act more energetic when she came over. Sometimes they would just sit together quietly on opposite sides of the fence. In his old age I took him on more walks to force him to exercise and move around a bit more. When he would get tired and want to stop and he would pretend like he was going to make #2 in the street and embarrass me in front of the neighbors, and I would have to be like "He's faking, don't worry everybody!" and look like an ass. I think he was also blind, and he spent most of the day sleeping, but as far as we could tell, he wasn't in pain. Oh, my mother was also giving him a daily regimen of glucosamine and an aspirin. For a month after he stopped eating, my mother would hand-feed him hamburger 3 or 4 times a day, which he would eat. He started eating again, and since he was an extremely large dog (+100 lbs), whenever he would lose weight, he would actually do better because it would be less weight on his hips. One day he stopped eating again and this time really couldn't eat. My mother fed him some hamburger one morning and petted him for awhile, and then he mozied to the backyard under the deck, and passed away. He seemed pretty content and comfortable in his old age. I actually have started crying as I write this. I'm still mourning for that dog!!! Has anyone else ever given glucosamine and aspirin to a dog? Did this actually help him or was my mother being nuts?[/quote]
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