As dogs and cats reach the latter years of their life, symptoms resembling senility can sometimes occur, which result in a change of behaviour. Senility in dogs and cats can be intensified by many factors, such as a reduction in sensory function, for example deafness or blindness. Animals that are affected can feel they have has lost their role and function within the pack as they become older and less active and this is very often seen in working dogs.

Senility can lead to severe anxiety, a reluctance to settle, lack of appetite, random barking and other resultant symptoms. Scullcap & Valerian tablets will help to relax and relieve anxiety and provide the animal with a calmer outlook. This medicine should be given at a rate of 2 daily per 5kgs bodyweight and thereafter reduced to half this amount unless the condition worsens when the higher dosage should be continued.

In elderly animals, incontinence may also be a problem, and if this is the case please see the separate section on this problem.
Don’t forget you can contact Dorwest on 01308 897272 for advice on treatment for your dog or cat.

“Further to me contacting you a few weeks back regarding my Greyhound, I felt I must contact you again to say thank you very much. Since continuing with the tablets on a daily basis, Patch has stopped his nightly walkabouts and I noticed a difference after 4 days, would you believe? He sleeps in until gone 9am some days, whereas before he was up 4, 5 and sometimes 6 times a night wandering about! So thank you so much for you continued help and support.”
Kelly Skipsey, Tadworth