Is your dog a senior yet?
A quick check against the AAHA Senior Care Guidelines and the standard size-adjusted veterinary chart. Three inputs, takes ten seconds.
Senior dog calorie calculator
Enter your dog's weight for a daily calorie estimate with real food portions. Most food bag feeding guides are written for active adult dogs — seniors often need 20 to 30 percent fewer calories.
Enter your dog's weight above to see the daily calorie estimate.
Caring for a dog already in the senior years? Our interactive HHHHHMM Quality of Life calculator scores seven factors out of 70 and tracks the trend over time. The printable templates below help you keep the rest of the record.
If the problem is how she moves rather than how she is doing overall, the mobility aid finder asks four questions and names the one piece of equipment that fits her, or tells you to call your vet instead.
For a dog with a heart murmur or heart disease, the resting breathing rate counter counts her sleeping breaths for 30 seconds and keeps the readings on your phone, which is the one number cardiologists ask owners to watch.
Not sure which stage she is in? The dog age calculator turns her weight and age into a life stage, and shows both published ways of converting dog years to human years.
Resources & Tools for Senior Dog Care
Free printable templates and tracking tools for senior dog owners: AAHA-aligned health record formats, QoL scoring sheets, and other practical resources.
Senior Dog Vet Visit Prep: The Complete Checklist for 2026
Senior dog vet visit prep: what to bring, the 10 questions to ask, what the vet checks, and how to capture the visit. Built on AAHA 2023 Senior Care Guidelines.
15 minPet Insurance for Senior Dogs: Age Limits, Pre-Existing Conditions, and What Is Covered
Pet insurance for senior dogs: what the law makes insurers disclose, what four providers say in their own words, and how to decide whether it is worth it.
15 minFree Senior Dog Medication Schedule Template (Printable + Digital-Friendly)
A free senior dog medication schedule template: 6 sections for managing multi-drug senior care, with a sample filled week and missed-dose protocols.
9 minFree Senior Dog Health Record Template (Printable + Digital-Friendly)
A free, AAHA-aligned senior dog health record template: 7 sections you can print, copy to Google Sheets, or fill in by hand, with a sample filled entry.
10 min