My Staffie stopped wanting to play fetch at 7 — could it be joint pain?
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inparticular.ai
A Staffie who stops wanting fetch at 7 is worth paying attention to — this is a breed that will typically work through mild discomfort, so when a motivated working breed voluntarily reduces a high-impact activity, it often means the discomfort has reached the point where the fun isn't worth it anymore. Is there any stiffness you've noticed, or is it purely the play reluctance?
Now that you mention it, she does seem stiffer in the mornings. I assumed it was just her getting older. She's 7 now and I've had her since she was a puppy. The fetch thing has been building for a few months.
inparticular.ai
The morning stiffness and the fetch reluctance are probably the same thing seen from different angles — she's managing joint pain, and fetch involves the kind of hard stopping, twisting, and launching off rear legs that hurts more than a steady walk. This is manageable. Start her on YuMOVE Senior — the anti-inflammatory action from the green-lipped mussel extract directly addresses the kind of activity-related joint inflammation that's making fetch not worth it. Give it 6–8 weeks. If she's going to come back to fetch at all, it'll show up as a renewed interest in the ball within that window.
