Every six months
Senior consultation
A full examination with a licensed veterinarian.
120 AED
- Full nose-to-tail examination
- Weight and body-condition tracking
- Mobility, dental and pain assessment
- A written plan to the next visit
Senior Pet Care in Dubai — When Once a Year Stops Being Enough
From about seven, the useful interval halves — because the diseases that matter in older cats and dogs are found on a blood test months before they are visible at home.
- AED 120 Consultation
- Every 6 months Recommended interval
- Same visit Lab results
- Al Quoz 3 Dubai
From about seven
What changes, and why it is not just more visits
Nothing dramatic happens on a pet's seventh birthday. What changes is the arithmetic: a year is now a long time to go unmonitored, and the conditions that shorten life here — kidney disease in cats, arthritis and dental disease in both — all develop quietly for months before anything looks wrong. Senior pet care in Dubai at Petbook Veterinary Clinic in Al Quoz 3 is built around that, with the consultation at AED 120.
The practical change is simple: examinations every six months instead of twelve, with blood and urine testing rather than a look and a weigh-in. Our in-house laboratory means the results are usually back before you leave, so a senior animal is not sent home for a week to wait on a courier.
Age itself is not a diagnosis, and it is not a reason to decline treatment either. An older cat with early kidney values has years of good life ahead if the right senior diet and monitoring start now; an older dog whose dental disease is treated eats and sleeps better within days. What we do is test first and build the plan around the results — including the anaesthetic plan, if one is needed.
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Every six months
A year is a long time at this age. Half of it is the interval where change is still catchable.
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Blood and urine, in-house
Kidneys, liver and thyroid — results usually back in the same visit rather than after a courier run.
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Weight tracked, not eyeballed
The same scale every visit. Slow weight loss is the earliest sign of most conditions and the easiest to miss.
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Age is not a reason to decline
We test first and build the anaesthetic or treatment plan around results — not around the birthday.
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Published prices
What a senior visit costs
AED 120, every six months
Blood and urine quoted before they are run, never added afterwards.
The consultation is AED 120, the same as any other. Blood and urine panels depend on what the examination indicates, so those are quoted before they are run — message us on WhatsApp for a same-day quote. Where a senior animal needs a dental, scaling is AED 349 for cats and AED 499 for dogs, always after pre-anaesthetic testing.
Step by step
What a senior check-up covers
Longer than a routine visit, because most of the value is in comparing today against the last one.
- Step 01
What has changed at home
Drinking, appetite, sleep, stairs, litter tray. Owners notice the real changes first — they just do not always read them as medical.
- Step 02
Weight against last visit
Same scale, compared to the record. A steady quiet drop is the single most useful number in senior medicine.
- Step 03
Heart, chest and abdomen
Murmurs, breathing rate at rest, and organs felt by hand — where kidney and bladder change is first suspected.
- Step 04
Blood and urine
Kidneys, liver, thyroid and blood sugar. In cats this is the test that finds chronic kidney disease while it is still manageable.
- Step 05
Mouth graded properly
Dental disease is near universal by this age and is treatable. Age is a reason to run bloods first, not a reason to leave it.
- Step 06
Mobility and pain
Joints flexed, muscle mass compared side to side. Slowing down is usually arthritis, and arthritis is treatable.
Testing, not guessing
Results in the same visit, not next week
Our in-house laboratory runs kidney, liver, thyroid and blood-sugar panels on site, so an older animal usually leaves with results and a plan the same day. That matters most in cats: chronic kidney disease is well advanced before anything looks wrong at home, and it is manageable for years when it is found early.
- Blood and urine results usually back before you leave
- Values compared against previous visits, not read in isolation
- A written plan and a date for the next check
Ageing here specifically
What Dubai does to an older animal
Climate and apartment living change how ageing shows up, and they change what we look for.
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Six months of reduced walking
Summer cuts outdoor time in half. Muscle is lost faster than owners expect, and lost muscle makes arthritis worse.
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Smooth floors, high furniture
Tiled and marble apartment floors are hard on an older dog's confidence and hips. Rugs on the routes they use help more than supplements.
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Dehydration risk is higher
Heat plus air conditioning plus reduced kidney function is a combination we watch closely in older cats specifically.
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Weight goes both ways
Less exercise causes gain; kidney and thyroid disease cause loss. Both are common here, which is why the scale matters.
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Histories are fragmented
Animals here change clinics and countries. Bring old records — a value from two years ago is often the most useful thing in the file.
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Travel decisions arrive suddenly
Owners relocate at short notice. Knowing an older animal's real condition early makes that decision an informed one.
When senior starts
When to switch to six-month visits
Breed and size move the line more than the calendar does — a giant-breed dog is senior years before a small one.
- Cats: from about 8 years, twice yearly with blood and urine testing
- Small dogs: from about 8–9 years
- Large and giant breeds: from about 6 years — they age faster
- Any age: new drinking, weight, mobility or litter-tray changes get a visit, not a wait
Not just getting old
Changes that are disease, not age
Almost everything owners put down to age is treatable. These specifically are worth an appointment rather than an adjustment at home.
- Drinking noticeably more, or urinating more
- Weight dropping while appetite stays the same
- Reluctance on stairs, or stopping a jump they always made
- Sleeping through things that used to wake them
- Bad breath, eating on one side, or dropping food
- Restlessness or pacing at night
Common questions
At what age is a dog classed as senior?
It depends far more on size than on the calendar. Giant breeds are often considered senior from around six, large breeds from seven, and small breeds not until eight or nine — a Great Dane and a Chihuahua of the same age are at completely different life stages. Rather than fix on a number, we usually suggest switching to six-monthly checks when a dog reaches roughly the last third of the expected lifespan for its breed and size.
What age is considered old for a cat?
Around eleven is often called geriatric, but the useful line is earlier: from about eight we recommend twice-yearly examinations with blood and urine testing. That is because chronic kidney disease and hyperthyroidism — the two conditions that most often shorten a cat's life — are both well established before anything is visible at home, and both are manageable when caught on a test rather than on symptoms.
What are the signs that a dog is aging?
Greying around the muzzle and sleeping more are the obvious ones and the least useful. What matters medically is different: taking the stairs slower or refusing them, difficulty getting up from a lying position, drinking more, losing muscle over the hind legs, cloudier eyes, and confusion or restlessness at night. The important distinction is that most of those are treatable conditions — arthritis, dental pain, kidney change, cognitive decline — rather than an inevitable part of ageing.
How do I tell if my senior cat is healthy?
Weight and water are the two most useful things you can track at home. A cat who is quietly losing weight while eating normally, or drinking noticeably more than she used to, needs a blood and urine test regardless of how well she seems. Beyond that: is she still grooming her back end, still jumping to the places she always jumped to, and still using the tray normally? Those three tell you more about comfort and mobility than appetite does.
How to keep a senior cat healthy?
Four things, roughly in order of impact. Twice-yearly examinations with blood and urine testing, so kidney and thyroid change is found early. Water intake — a fountain, wet food, and more than one bowl. Dental care, because oral pain is constant and completely fixable. And an easier environment: a low-sided litter tray, steps to the places she used to jump to, and a warm quiet spot away from the air conditioning.
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