I recently adopted a 8 yr old medical rescue foster. she has been with me since June. I adore her.

I’d do anything in the world to give my service dog a longer healthier life

As a owner, I dislike that word, of 5 Siberian Huskies over time, we usually loose them around 15 years old. Two were from cancer. Our present fur baby is 13 years old and we worry, mostly unnecessarily, she is in good health other than arthritis setting in. We become emotional just thinking we will probably loose her in another 2 years or so. It would be wonderful if we could have a longer time with all of our canine children.

Addressing the underlying aging process has so much potential to keep our pets healthier for longer. The Dog Aging Project's longitudinal trial will also tell us a lot about what environmental factors might be important for keeping pet dogs healthy. This research needs so much more support and funding!

So happy to get an update on The Dog Aging Project! I hope real treatment breakthroughs happen in the next few years. I tried to enroll my then-13 year old dog, but noticed I missed the submission deadline by several months after coming across a tweet where Dr. David Sinclair mentioned this study. I put my senior furry son on a regimen based on Dr. Sinclair's findings, which included daily low dsage of NMN, turmeric, and resveratrol 2 years before his passing at age 17 years and 2 months.

We have 3 boxers. The two boys are nearing 11 years old. Daily walks, lots of sleep and an abundance of love.

We lost our German Shepherd in January, 2021. She was almost 13. We usually fed her meat (cooked) and vegetables, rather than dry dog food. It was expensive but we feel her diet contributed to her long life. The other thing that we think helped was that she went with us EVERYWHERE. There literally wasn’t a place we went without her. If she couldn’t go into the restaurant she’d stay in the car but she was out of the house. When she could go into the restaurant my husband would order her a meal from the menu, steak, burger (no bun), etc. We took her on vacations (a little extra work finding hotels that would take dogs but well worth it). Our doggy had experiences most dogs don’t get to have, and she was a happy pooch. We miss her so much.

In our experience, our beloved mutt, Rufus, lived the longest and was the healthiest. He was part Sheba-Inu, and some sort of terrier. He lived to 18.5 years! Only the last year of his life did he experience senility. He was our family WonderDog.

I just think of going through life with my dogs and cats, and it makes me feel better, so YES to this

Great to see the coverage of this program and rapamycin. It is the future.

Quality over quantity. I truly believe that. Especially after four dogs and my ancient ancient cat.

I just wish the vet weren't so expensive 😔

Thank you for the work this project team is doing on dog aging! There’s so much to learn to enhance our dog friends quality of life. We lost our little guy last year at age 14. At 7, we learned he had a brain tumor. Fortunately, we were able to include him in a trial that also had human implications. Amazingly, the tumor was shrunk in half & he had several more high quality years beating all odds.

My dog has cancer. Has not been able to relax well for weeks. Now on day 2 on Rapamycin and she is relaxing and sleeping much better. Early stages but I hope this continues.

While I applaud any study of dogs aging, I need to see more about this study to see if they are doing ANYTHING regarding the commercial diet and its affects on the increased disease rate on our pets! What we feed our dogs is killing them or making them very sick! Testing a drug is fine but only addresses "senility" or cognitive function! Who else is studying aging in dogs? You all need to review and read Dr. K Becker's book, Forever Dog! Check out how their diet can impact their health and well being! PLEASE

I’m so thrilled that my 8 yo Weimaraner boy is able to participate as a pack member. Dogs are never with us long enough, so if Monroe and I make even the smallest contribution to dog longevity increasing, we can give everyone a chance to share more time with their dog!

Good info. Thank you.

Where can I get some of that stuff?? I ain't gettin any younger myself!😂

i will never recover from the loss of my 15 years and a half year old Belgian Malinois, i wish we could be together for eternity, he's the best being I've ever known. It's been 16 months since I'd to let go, there's nothing that can bit cancer and aging.

I'll feed this to my dog when I get one.

When do you expect to publish results of the project?

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What about cats????? 🐈 🐾❤

I would die for my dog to live for even a day longer

How do we get this drug for my dog. My dog (Princess) is a very old dog she is 20 years old. she is at that age where she is having a hard time going up & down the stairs. She tries to run up the stairs but she will fall because she is having a hard time going up the stairs, she can no longer jump on the bed so we pick her up and put her on the bed. I would love to get this drug for my princess so maybe she can go up the stairs and run around outside a little better. So please give me the information on how I could receive this for my princess.

My dog is a rapper, he's definitely got some kind of rapper in him. My dogs got bars.

You're just delaying the inevitable part of LIFE ! honestly it amazes me how people are so ego driven. Dogs are not humans property. They are a gift of nature.

Just don’t feed them human food and that alone will expand like 3-4 years i believe, my dog heath is still very good and he is 18 yr old now. he never touched human food. he is choosy about food lucky for him

SELIGILINE

The next thing we will hear is this will cure Covid!