How does care look like when those who provide care aren’t only humans, but also other-than-humans? How can we reimagine an anthropology of care, as well as anthropology as a practice of care, when we approach such practice based on more-than-human references of care? In this paper, I discuss how therapy-dogs and their human handlers who visit older people living in Scottish care homes through Animal-Assisted Therapy programs can serve as moral instigators and agents of care in situations that are fraught with vulnerability and communication shortcomings due to advanced dementia. I firstly consider how human volunteers can sometimes worry to care too much for fear of becoming emotionally exhausted in the face of unbearable suffering they witness in their volunteer capacity. However, when acting with their dogs, volunteers graft their care on their dog’s behaviour, by “playing it by ear, as you go along.” This creates space not only to anchor volunteers in the present through improvisational care, but also to allow their more-than-human partners to care where human care falls short. Secondly, I follow canine psychologist Alexandra Horowitz (2009), who asserts that dogs are the best anthropologists: the best observers of human behaviour. From this standpoint, I discuss how, by following the therapy-dogs, I learnt new ways of caring and relating with my participants living with advanced dementia, practicing a form of chorethnography: something akin to improvisation dance in which the anthropologist uses their body as a responsive tool to care and communicate, based on Vinciane Despret’s (2013) concept of “embodied empathy.” I conclude that more-than-human matters of care (Puig de la Bellacasa, 2017) can serve to reimagine both a more-than-human anthropology of care and as care through the whole range of sensorium as a way of being and caring in our participants’ – humans and more-than-humans – lifeworlds.