Senior Pet Care

Please spend just a little time to learn more about special requirement for your senior pets. This is the first step that will lead you to the best care for your beloved pets as they are entering their senior years. At Chiang Mai Chotana Animal Hospital, we enthusiastically focus all our knowledge and experience on senior pet care and are definitely proud of our special care provided to meet the need of all senior pets and address various issues of pet chronic and geriatric diseases include joint disease and mobility issues, glandular diseases, sickness of kidneys, liver, heart and cancer.

For most dogs and cats, we consider older than 6 years old to be a senior pets. You can see their physical fitness gradually decline as the year gone by. However, with proper management and veterinary care, we can significantly slow down this process of changes. These will profoundly prolong your pet quality and active and healthy life to the most. Steps and methods of preventive care must be allocated according to your pet ages, life style, risk factors and nature of environment. Those cares will prevent many geriatric diseases in pets and also early diseases detection in the old pet will make life easier to deal with those health issues.

Because you are the most forefront care taker of your beloved pets, so you play an important role in this preventive program. You yourself have an influence on you pets in term of frequency of exercise, welfare and quality of senior pet care program relevant to veterinary principle and daily feeding program.


With advice from your veterinarian, then you can manage all those factors in order to enhance your pet’s health and stamina to the most. This will also enhance their wellness although their mobility may slightly slow down.

The best time for initiating a senior pet care and understanding of an important and extra care for your pets is the period just before entering into their senior years. At Chiang Mai Chotana Animal Hospital, we absolutely understand this issue very well, so we recommend you to take your pets to participate in Wellness Program for aging pets on a regular basis. This should include a special laboratory test for monitoring various diseases in order to early detect those geriatric diseases.  Veterinary dental care in senior is also necessary, we advise you to regularly bring your aging pets for dental examination and teeth cleaning. Especially, food and weight gain of all pets in senior years needed to be taken care of and closely monitored. On wellness checkup program for senior pets, your pet’s body weight will be evaluated and recommendation for feeding program is provided according to each individual pet body condition.

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