Canine Cognitive Dysfunction (CCD)
Age-related decline in memory, awareness and sleep — often called dog dementia. Recognised through the DISHA signs (disorientation, interaction changes, sleep-wake disruption, house-soiling, activity changes). Cats can be affected too.
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Is my dog losing his mind? First signs of canine cognitive dysfunction
It is usually something small and strange that sends an owner looking. A dog standing in the corner of a room he has lived in for a decade, facing the wall, as if he cannot quite work out how he got there. Or he walks up to the hinge side of a door and waits...
Living with canine cognitive dysfunction: a day-and-night plan
An old dog who paces a slow circle in the small hours, stares at the hinge side of a door he has walked through ten thousand times, or whimpers at nothing you can see, is showing you one of the hardest parts of growing old. You let him out, you check his water, you sit...
Feline cognitive dysfunction: the old cat who yowls and forgets
It usually starts in the small hours. A long, flat, oddly toneless yowl from the bottom of the stairs at three in the morning, from a cat who has lived with you for fifteen years and never once needed to announce herself like this. You go down. She is standing in a room she has...
The 3am pet: managing night-waking and sundowning
Of all the things that go wrong with an ageing pet's mind, the broken night is the one owners find hardest. When researchers asked owners of dogs with an ageing mind what wore them down most, the disrupted nights came out at the top of the list, ahead of every other behaviour. Maybe your old...
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