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Dogs, just like people, suffer some indignities as they age. Problems holding their pee can be one of them.

We do senior blood work on all our mature dogs. We do it on our beagles and we do it on our own dogs. We did it with Manny when he first came in. He had some borderline numbers so the vet wanted to wait and then do a recheck.

Manny has discovered that around here, you've got to work for your time with the belly rubs. I do a lot of stretching in the morning since I spend a lot of my day sitting in front of a computer. That is the best time for the dogs to get attention since I'm down on the floor. This morning I was stretching and rubbing chins and scratching ears when suddenly Manny trotted in and plopped himself down next to me and gave me the patented pathetic beagle look. Normally he comes out of his crate in the morning and finds a dog bed and parks himself there, but I guess he's decided that he too needs some quality time with me too and he's not going to wait for me to come to him.