Adopted 2 senior dogs/ any advice?

[SheilaT]

27. What I was going to say.

Get them to a vet as soon as possible. The vet can probably tell you a whole lot about your wonderful new companions, and what you can and should do to make their lives better.

I am hugely in favor of adopting older animals. I'm a cat person myself, but the basics are still the same. It's nice not to have to deal with childhood (puppy or kitten) and the older animals are all too often left to languish. I've adopted older animals and have never regretted it. The oldest one was actually a cat who showed up in our front yard, apparently having decided we were her last best hope for a home. She was starving, probably only days from death, and flea infested. We took her in and she was one of the best decisions I have ever made in my life. She was only with me for about four years, and must have been at least 17 when she left me. I'd decided that she was older than my oldest cat, whose age I knew. She'd clearly been a well loved and well treated pet before she came into my life, and it breaks my heart to know she wound up on the street.

Currently I am without any pets, but someday when I'm ready for a new one, I'll go to a shelter and say, give me the oldest cat you have here.

As an aside, it does seem as though shelter animals somehow understand that they've been rescued, and they seem invariably to make the best, most wonderful companions ever.