Kenzie

Every year for her birthday, the woman who run Felines and Canines asks for photos of all the animals that have found homes through them. As I was looking through my photos, I realized we didn't have a recent one of Kenzie. J. got some good ones on a walk this evening.

When Kenzie joined us in 2016, his age was estimated to be around two. We have no idea if that is correct or not,but I suspect he was actually closer to four or five. When you add six years onto that it makes him ten or eleven with a good chance that he is a little older. Kenzie is a good dog, but has always been on the anxious side. Age (and living with more puppies than he really enjoyed) has just exacerbated his anxiety. He is now on a daily dose of Trazadone which has helped immensely.  We knew he was much grayer than he was, but it wasn't until I looked at that old post I linked to that I realized exactly how much grayer he is. 

Kenzie still loves to go on walks, especially if is in the forest preserve where there are an infinite amount of good smells to sniff. He also loves sleeping in the bean bag chair I had originally bought as a children's reading chair but is now firmly Kenzie's. (Unless a cat is in it and then it is the cat's.) Kenzie still takes guarding his family very seriously and barks at anything that looks remotely threatening... delivery trucks, cars driving down the driveway, random bits of dust that catch his eye. But really what he loves most is just to be petted by his family. (And B. He really, really loves B.) 

So that's Kenzie these days. The vet gave him a clean bill of health and he is enjoying very much being an only dog again.