Hey everyone, welcome to the Houndations podcast.

I'm your host Tony Peterson.

Today's episode is all about senior dogs and the issues that come along with watching your sidekicks start to age out a little bit.

As the owner of a nearly 12-year-old lab, I'm feeling the old dog situation big time.

One of the worst, if not the worst things about loving and owning dogs, is that their

lifespan is just so condensed compared to ours.

Aging is generally inevitable, and while it sucks, there are some things we can do to keep

our grizzled veterans out and about, you know,

kind of doing stuff late into life while actively working to increase their quality of life

while they still keep doing stuff. It's all tied together. That's what this episode is all about.

Gene Kalment was born in 1875. She didn't shed her mortal coil until she was 122 years and 164 days old in, get this, 1997.

This means that the year she was born the world got its very first

final records for most of you listeners that's an analog storage system that is

basically a flat disk with a bunch of grooves on it one of the things that makes me

feel almost as old as her is that I have a very

vague memory of getting records with a meal at Hardee's, the fast food chain you definitely

don't see very often these days. Those records were for a promotion for the original

Gremlins movie, where each one told a part of the story of those little rascals that you

couldn't feed after midnight or drip water on, otherwise real bad shit would happen.

Now that I'm ready to jump in front of a bus, since I probably only have a few years left

before I age out, let's look at the other end of her life. The year that she died, 1997, the first DVD was released into the world.

And you know what you could watch on those DVDs without having to buy a frisco burger and some fries?

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