Sunday, November 10, 2013

Aging animals...

Aging animals...  Photographer Isa Leshko is making portraits of aging animals, like the 19 year old Australian Kelpie at right.  The Smithsonian has an article and more examples...

Debbie and I have a little animal geriatric ward of our own.  We have a 22 year old cat (Tippy) who's struggling and needs lots of care – he's got pancreatic problems, so he's on a diet of “chicken shakes”: roasted chicken breast blended with no-sodium broth.  We have another cat (Bootie) who's about 21 years old and doing ok, and two ancient field spaniels (Mo'i and Lea) who are both doing just fine.  We lost our oldest cat (Pana) earlier this year...

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