Why Your Older Dog Can't Sleep Through the Night (And What's Really Going On) If your senior dog has started pacing at night, whining for no reason, or staring at walls at 2am like they're seeing something you can't... You're not imagining it. And it's probably not "just old age." Veterinary researchers have identified a condition in older dogs called sundowning — where their internal body clock becomes dysregulated as they age. Their brain loses the ability to recognise when it's time to sleep.
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Why Your Older Dog Can't Sleep Through the Night (And What's Really Going On) If your senior dog has started pacing at night, whining for no reason, or staring at walls at 2am like they're seeing something you can't... You're not imagining it. And it's probably not "just old age." Veterinary researchers have identified a condition in older dogs called sundowning — where their internal body clock becomes dysregulated as they age. Their brain loses the ability to recognise when it's time to sleep.
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