[OliversMom]

Anyone out there have a senior Yorkie?

My Oliver will be 14 next month. Vet says he is in excellent health, and he seems generally pretty happy. He sleeps a great deal during the day--also at night unless he senses critters in the yard.

Oliver is deaf -- it took us awhile to figure that out. He responds to "Come" hand signal when he so chooses, in true Yorkie fashion, although more reliably than when he could hear. (Odd.)

I have had to learn to be very careful about how I wake him, because he can't hear me coming. I don't think he would ever actually bite me but he does give a warning snap if startled awake.

Does anyone else observe these patterns? Do your senior Yorkies sleep most of the day?

Thanks, Carol