Pawdorable 13-year-old senior basset hound dog shows that her snoot has still got it, goes viral: 'It's like she's a puppy again!'

Aging is a fear for many, even dog parents. Actually, maybe especially dog parents! You might not be with your canine companion for your entire life, but you are with them for their's. It's tragic that dogs aren't immortal, but we just have to settle with being happy to have them in our lives at all. The love they give us and make use realize we have the capacity to give is profound. Though it breaks your heart to start to see the snoot on your doggo bestie turn salt and pepper and the pep in their step start to slow down, you are still able to love them more and more every day. It's truly beautiful.

Here we see the majestic Kaya, a 13-year-old senior Basset hound who's still got it! And by that we mean, she can find anything with that powerful snoot of her's. You see, Basset hounds were bred for just that, as hunting dogs with the ability to sniff out where their fallen target had gone. So, the ability is in Kaya's DNA. Though her pawrents say her "sniffter doesn't sniff like it used to" she still amazes them with her ability to find things simply by sniffing them out.

"Kaya is 13 and the sniffer doesn’t sniff like it used to…"

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"But we brought some real bacon home from the diner for her, and she went to work just like old times! It's like she's a puppy again," her owner writes as the caption to the viral video.

You can see her sniffing away while her tail wags at exponential speeds. She was more than excited to use her snoot again and then even happier to find the prize at the end of her expedition. It was a piece of bacon in a shoe. Dogs are so beautiful. We love Kaya! You go girl.
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