Did you know that November is Adopt a Senior Pet Month? If you’re thinking of adding a furry friend to your family, please consider opening your heart and home to an older cat or dog in need. Senior pets are often the last to be adopted from shelters, overlooked because of their age or the assumption that they are in a shelter because they are “problem pets.”
Senior pets lose their homes for a variety of reasons, usually having nothing to do with their behavior or temperament, but because their owners are unable to keep them due to death of a guardian, loss of job, a move, change in work schedule, or other lifestyle change.
Senior animals need homes just as much as puppies and younger adult pets do, and there are many perks to adopting a senior pet. Their physical size is established, and their temperaments and personalities are also fully developed. They have already grown into who and what they are going to be. Typically, an older pet has been exposed to some basic obedience training...