senior dog seems lonelier when at home

[SONUVSAMMY]

i live by myself with my senior dog of almost 15 years old .he's rather lame.he has a difficult,but not impossible time of walking around ..arthritic in a leg or two and a hip and part of his back and also has water buildup around the heart so he takes lasix twice daily. my problem though is that he seems to show lonliness when we're at home just he and i together.

he lays and stays.

he gets up only when he wants to eat or drink/.

i take him to my parents' apartment to visit every once in a while.(my mom is grandmother and my dad is grand dad..it's been this way with him since he was born,so he's gotten used to it and they've become his real grandparents..at to least to him i mean..and us too i guess lol..
but i noticed lately that he seems happier when we're there than when we're at home by ourselves. when he's there with them and all of us are together,he follows my mom around when she gets up to do anything.(he's always been that way ,all of his life regarding my mom..he follows her from room to room ,etc)..anyway,he becomes more interactive at their place than he does at home .
can someone please clue me in if my dog might happier there than being alone at home just us two? has anyone else gone through this kind of interaction/non interaction thing with their senior dog.

i'm wondering if it would benefit his health to visit my parents on a more frequent basis. then again,when i was doing so before for a while,he(the dog)refused to go home when it was time to l leave and i'd have to carry him to the car simply because he didn't want to leave their place/. then he'd get home and seem lonely. i used to wonder if he didn't understand that we were just visiting my parents ,not living there permanently/.


he sometimes confuses me even still..he doesn't
like leaving there once he gets there.like right now he's sleeping on the carpet here at home.if we go to my parents apartment ten to one ,he'd be aware ,more alert and do alot of walking around and interacting.

i don't know.i hate to get him over there only to make him leave sometime this evening.he used to understand(in his youthful years)that we were visiting and would go home eventually,more recently however,he seems depressed when we leave there and get home and he just lays and stays and sleeps.

he stays so inactive and motionless here at home. it's makes me feel good to see how he acts when we're at my parents place.i hope though the interactiion at their place isn't hard on him/. he seems to be interacting willingly as though it doesn't hurt him or make him feel uncomfortable,by interacting,i mean,more walking and moving around,less sleeping and being aware and concious of people walking around and being being busy,like cooking ,cleaning and even more conscious of conversation going on to the point of obviously listening .

i wonder why he's so sleepy and out of it here at home but so alert at my parents' place.and which does he enjoy as a more routine schedule..home or parents apartment.he used to be so jealous of anyone else being around me that he always wanted to be alone with just me ,here at home..just us two together/.

now i'm beginningto wonder if his being in his senior years have changed that mode of thinking for some reason.


we slept all night but he continues to sleep all day too.i think maybe i ought to gentlyy put him in the car and maybe go to my parents.

can someone tell me if they're used to a senior dog's actions to know about this? does he enjoy being out visiting now that he's in his senior years with arthritis and such?

or am i seeing something that just appears to be that way?

i hate to get him to do something,like spend time away from home if he really doesn't enjoy it/.

someone in a dog forum said recently(not this forum)that a senior dog needs all that sleep they get,even if their sleeping all day and all night.i'm not sure i believe that.it seems to me that alot of that sleeping might be depression,since a dog that's so used to being active for 10 or 11 years or longer,suddenly can't move well,run and play.i believe that there MUST be some permanent depression that sets in,which has to account for some of the element of sleeping alot. why else would my dog(for example)be so motionless and sleep 98% of the time at home yet be (willingly)more active,alert,conscious,awake and seemingly happier when i visit my parents?


this thing of him appearing so lonely at home but happy and more normal at my parents place has me confused.it concerns me that he's depressed at home as though he really doesn't like it here/.he's onlyben this way since his senior years took away his puppyhood. it's only been since last summer that happened..last october to be more accurate/. so maybe he's still in a state of confusion over it . i just wish that he could be happier here at home/.

[SONUVSAMMY]

funny how suddenly things happen..as stated in a more recent post,now my dog can't walk OR stand.and the post below is onlya few days old basically..weird