Welcome to Happiness Unleashed with your host, Brittany Darren Bacher, presented by Live Happy.

November is Adopt a Senior Pet Month, and that makes it the perfect time to talk to Dr. Julie Busby.

Julie is an integrative veterinarian with a special place in her heart for senior pets.

She's here to talk with Brittany about some of the misconceptions we often have about senior

dogs and why, in many cases, a senior pet may be the best option for adoption.

So listen in as she and Brittany talk about what senior pets can do for us

and what we should be doing for them. November is National Senior Pet Month. So let's just

dive right into this topic that is near and dear to my heart. Dr. Busby, why are you passionate

about helping senior dogs?

Oh, man, I just love senior dogs for so many reasons.

I am an integrated veterinarian certified in animal chiropractic and veterinary acupuncture.

So the majority of my patients at this point of my career are senior dogs.

People are coming for mobility management, pain management.

So I get to spend my day with them. And I mean, just inherently, they just are so sweet.

They've lived through so much. They've seen so much. And they're little sweet gray muzzles. Like they just have such an expressive, unconditional love oozing out of every hair follicle.

But I think the other thing that is in the back of my mind is they have, for the most part,

lived with these families for a long time, you know, a decade or more.

And I've heard so many stories over the years of how they have been there for their person

through a bad divorce, through the loss of a spouse, through the loss of a child, through whatever

tragedy, you know, life might bring.

And that dog was their rock and provided unconditional love, you know, whenever they were,

whatever emotional state they were in, they could count on the dog to be there for them. And I just respect that.

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