Open Your Heart to a Senior Pet during Adopt a Senior Pet Month!
- What you see is what you get. The surprises are over with a senior pet, as to size, adult coat, grooming needs, and the most important…personality. This information makes it easier to make the right decision for a lifetime love connection!
- Older animals have manners. Grown-up animals that are now looking for new homes have spent years living with a family and being socialized to life with humans. They may have received obedience training and respond to human/animal communication. Many are house trained and it takes a matter of hours or a day or two to help them learn the potty rules in their new home.
- Senior pets are less destructive. Older adoptive pets are well past the search-and-destroy phase. Your families’ treasures will be grateful for a senior pet, they don’t have the same urges to chew and explore
- You can teach Senior Pets new tricks. Adult dogs can focus on the task at hand (unlike many of their much younger counterparts. If training is needed, for their new life with you, they have the mental and physical abilities to pick up new things really fast! Older dogs are more attentive than puppies, and more eager to please their humans. Older cats will let you think you are training them, since they already know everything!
- Super loving Seniors. If you’re looking for love, there is a deeper devotion, gratefulness, and uniquely beautiful bond that is shared from a Senior Pet. If you already have a cat and need your adoptive dog to get along with cats, again, you’ll have a much better chance of finding an older adoptive dog who is a perfect companion for your family. They are more tolerant and tend to adjust peacefully.
- Your busy lifestyle won’t have to add another 24-7 job. Grown animals don’t require the constant monitoring that the very young do, so you can enjoy the companionship of an animal without taking away from your children, your personal time, or work. Senior pets settle in quickly.
- Senior pets are great company. People find the calm presence of an older pet very comforting, especially the elderly. They appreciate having a companion who is also ‘getting up there’ in age and is content to move through life at a slower speed.
- Older pets are relaxing to hang out with. The wild energy has been burned, they have the basics down, the constant chasing and cleaning have passed, and you are now in the limelight of spending fun time together. That fun could be just relaxing together.
- Adopted senior pets are grateful for your kindness. Older pets have that wisdom and seem to know you gave them a home when no one else would. Adopters form a close bond very quickly with their senior dog or cat, because the pet shows them a level of attention and devotion that is unique to older adopted animals.
- You can be a hero to a deserving dog or cat. At shelters, older animals are less likely to be adopted, and have the least amount of options. Almost without exception, people who adopt older animals feel a special sense of pride and purpose in opening their heart to a hard-to-place pet. Doing a good thing really does make you feel good! Saving a life offers you an unparalleled emotional return on your investment, with daily rewards!!!
