Senior Moments

I have mentioned time after time about how sudden Cosmo has become a senior citizen in the dog world. I feel like a lot of it had to do with my family moving and him adjusting to this new life. He's been a much different, sleepier dog. Lately, his old side has really been showing. For the past twelve years about, Cosmo has greeted us whenever we came home. He could hear the door bell, a knock on the door, the door being opened, and the garage door going up. He use to look out the windows at the front of our house and wait for us to come home. Now, I come home to a dog that is fast asleep and has little knowledge of anything that is taking place. Just today, I came home from school to empty house. Occasionally Cosmo will be in the front room, so he at least sees me walk in the door. Or I will hear his loud, obnoxious, lovable snoring. But today, I couldn't hear a sound. I looked through all of the house, and of course he was lying on the couch which we have always taught him not to do- a relative's couch at that. Once I wake up him from my presence, it takes him a minute to comprehend that I'm now home, which means he should be excited to see me. But he embarrassingly smiles it off and keeps wagging his tail.

Getting some warm sun during the cold winter.

You can really tell that his hearing is going. Not only from him not being able to hear us come home, but he can't even hear us throughout the house most of the time. Sometimes when he's laying in the hallway, or even in my room, I accidentally scare him because he won't hear me walk by but suddenly see a figure moving. Also, sometimes I think he randomly starts howling because he wants us to think he can still hear stuff that we cannot. He's not fooling anyone. He's also so needy all of the time. My family rotates in petting him for about an hour each day, and he's still all up in our faces. He's just always craving love and attention. But he's cute, so it's okay.

Selfie life.

Cosmo has grown up with me, and I know he is about twelve years old. But I've always heard different ways to calculate "human years" into "dog years". So according to Pedigree, Cosmo is about eighty-nine years old! Geez! He's becoming an older dog, but I'm not sure he become any wiser.