Calling All Dogs Over 8 Years Old

[bugaboosmom]

NAME:Pebbles
Age:11 yrs

How Long you've owned:8yrs
Health problems:none
Vitamins:Show Stopper

Pics of Pebbles then and now.

[Kate]

Originally Posted by bugaboosmom

NAME:Pebbles
Age:11 yrs

How Long you've owned:8yrs
Health problems:none
Vitamins:Show Stopper

Pics of Pebbles then and now.

She is gorgeous. How long did it take to get her topknot as long and thick as it is? I am working on Sadie, and she is three. I got her 10 mos. ago, and it was not very long.

It is starting to get nice, but not as long as Pebbles knot.

[bugaboosmom]

She was 3 yrs in the show pic. She grows hair like weeds. Thank You for the compliment I'll tell her in the morning.

[deb4air]

she is a real cutie

[crystalsmom]

Welcome to you and Pebbles. When you first started posting, I noticed how
beautiful your yorkies were and so glad to have you in this little club that
is growing and growing. My Crystal is 11 yrs and I have had her for 8 yrs
too I wish I had a picture I could post of Crystal when she won her
championship but her steel blue has pretty much seen it's day. We just
need a birthday , day and month and again welcome. Next month we have
an unbelievable Birthday....our little Sadie will be 15 on March 14th

[stefike13]

NAME: Scruffy
AGE: 15 1/2 years (born February 14/1991)
HOW LONG HAVE YOU OWNED: 15 years
M/F: Female
HEALTH PROBLEMS: Scruffy has cataracts. It's worse in her left eye which is all fogged over and it's becoming harder for her to see. Other than that my vet has given her a good bill of health.
DO YOU GIVE VITAMIN: No ?? Should I, My vet has never told me too ??

Hey Everyone,

It's great to see all these older Yorkies. Scruffy is a Yorkie-Poo. The last time I took her to the vet she only weighed about 3lbs. She eats all the time and she's still very regular when it comes to doing her business.

Scruffy has always been a very jealous dog. She's never really gotten along with other dogs or small children, but I've noticed the problem has increased A LOT over the last 2 or 3 years. I'm not too sure what to do. It's come to the point where I can't take her for walks to dog parks or let strangers pet her. She goes right for the throat even with big dogs. She has no fear!!! It's quite scary sometimes

She sleeps ALL DAY and only comes to see me when she needs to go for a walk. She doesn't like to play anymore and seems very timid when it comes to just sitting on the couch beside you. I'm worried that she has become too withdrawn from everyone.

I've also noticed that she has started to go to the bathroom EVERYWHERE. Even right in front of me after we've come inside from a walk (when she fully went outside). It's like she's totally forgotten how to be house trained or that it's a "bad" thing. The vet says behavioral problems are common in older dogs, but I'm not sure what to do. I feel like she's trying to punish me but I'm not sure why. Any advice would be very helpful.

I've attached some pictures of Scruffy; Before & After!!

Hope to speak with you all soon,
Stephanie

[YorkieRose]

Dogs age just like humans...they become senile and do odd things. I doubt she is even knows what she is doing at times.
If the vet has checked her out..teeth etc and there is no pain causing her behavior problems, then all you can do is be patient with her. Arterie harden and there is a lack of oxegen to the brain as with people...makes for some strange behavior changes as we age.
Best wishes

[stefike13]

Originally Posted by YorkieRose

Dogs age just like humans...they become senile and do odd things. I doubt she is even knows what she is doing at times.
If the vet has checked her out..teeth etc and there is no pain causing her behavior problems, then all you can do is be patient with her. Arterie harden and there is a lack of oxegen to the brain as with people...makes for some strange behavior changes as we age.
Best wishes

Yeah I know you're right. It's just a little sad seeing it happen.

Now that you've mentioned it, her teeth are really bad. They need to be cleaned horribly bad but they don't want to put her under. She's lost at least one of her molars and the other is ready to fall out. I want to switch her to wet food but it used to make her sick when she was younger. Any suggestions? Should I just mix the 2 together for now?

I don't think she's in any pain sometimes she yelps when you try and pet her and she was a lot of "old dog warts" on her back and neck. The vet said he could remove them but 10 more will come back. I guess it just comes with the territory of having a 15+ doggie.

[sashajade]

names are tye and zac they are twins and are 12 they will be 13 on the 30th of december ive had them from the min they were put in there mums tummy as i bred them my self. zac damaged his liver when he eat a plastic toy and has a reaction to frontline were he sees things and gets blisters on his tummy but apart from that he has never had anything else wrong with him and still plays like a puppy. tye was never ill untill about 2 years ago he now has asthma fluid in his lungs which he has meds for and a bit of a heart murmur but he still trys it on with the 2 girls when they are in season lol and still likes to play even if he starts coughing in mid play mode ive been lucky with them really and glad they took after there dad scampi as he was never ill in the 15 years i had him untill he died of heart problems caused by old age, wheres sasha there mum had everything going, bowel and tummy problems, fits, eye problems, womb problems, cancer, and then heart problems which caused her to have 2 heart attacks and sadly i had to have her pts when she was 12 as there was nothing the vets could do for her (she didnt have any problems before she had tye and zac just incase someone thought i would bred knowing she had problems). so if anyone wants to know anything about any of those problems let me know.

[sashajade]

forgot to do pics of them tye is the bigger pic zac is the small one.

[stefike13]

Hey everyone,

I haven't been on here in months but I thought I'd post one last message before I leave for good. I had to put my baby down on November 19th 2006. I took her in for a check up and her blood work came back and showed her kidney's were rapidly failing. I had her put down the next day. She was 16.

Enjoy and love your yorkie!!

Stephanie

[Cidney]

Scooter turns 8 today! No health problems and all he does is smile all the time and plays with his baby brother Sam who is 10 months old.

Cidney is 13 1/2. No health problems other than might come with being a senior dog. When my husband is at home with him and I am at work, CIdney will lay in his bed all day. When I get home or when I am at home on the weekends, he is up and with me where ever I am in the house. The old guy still rolls out of the bed with me at 4:30AM to sit with me while I get ready for work. I do think he is loosing his hearing and maybe some of his eye site. He has several old age warts on him which I have had checked out. He eats well since I home cook for him and still likes to chase a ball every now and then. He insist on his daily walks and every once in a while I will have to pick him up because he tires out.

[Ozzie'sperson]

This thread pre-dates me by quite a bit, so I guess THAT's why I've never seen it. I knew there had to be Yorksters out there older than 3 or 4!

NAME Ozzie AKA "The Moose"
AGE Will be 10 on June 22
HOW LONG HAVE YOU OWNED Since 11 weeks old
M/F Male
HEALTH PROBLEMS AND WHAT YOU HAVE FOUND TO HELP Always had ear problems; last year, starting having anal gland issues and has two bouts of HGE since November
DO YOU GIVE VITAMIN Gets multi-vitamin and live culture yogurt everyday along with his homecookin'
(and add anything else you think might be helpful)
Ozzie is one of the "big" boys (13.5 pounds) Except for ear infections, he has not really had health problems 'til last year

These are all recent pix of my baby. He is VERY active, so much so that I can't believe he is almost 10!

[crystalsmom]

Originally Posted by stefike13

Hey everyone,

I haven't been on here in months but I thought I'd post one last message before I leave for good. I had to put my baby down on November 19th 2006. I took her in for a check up and her blood work came back and showed her kidney's were rapidly failing. I had her put down the next day. She was 16.

Enjoy and love your yorkie!!

Stephanie

I haven't had the time to post on YorkieTalk but when the email came to me about this, I wanted to reply. I started this thread January 2006.

Stephanie, I know this must have been so difficult and since my girl will be 13 soon I have tried to get myself ready but you never are. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. Hugs

[crystalsmom]

Well tell me how are all our older dogs doing

We will have to get Birthday's listed and celebrate them on the forum. I will pm each of you as soon as I get some spare time.