[yorkietalkjilly]

Tibbe is a night "person". He's 4 1/2 years old. He sleeps quite a bit during the day most days, and in the late afternoon, comes alive, eats a lot of dinner, plays outside and spends the evening racing about the house, pestering me constantly to play with him(gets his way most of the time), watching out the front as people get home from work, eat and then come out to work in the yard or load the car and the family go off somewhere while other children play out front - all that is simply fascinating to him), and coming to tell me about what he sees outside and wanting me to come see too. Then approaching about 10:00 a.m., he wants to playfight with me - a big, rousing rumble/tumble bout and it all ends up with him racing through the house from excitement. Not long after that, he begins to run down, snacks from his bowl a bit and after a last visit outside, curls up and goes to bed. On other days, he's up all day and evening and hardly ever stops going and playing all day and evening. But you might try keeping him up during the day to see if it will slow him down at night - though it never really changed Tibbe.