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12-17-2008, 07:20 AM | #1 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: st. louis, mo
Posts: 88
| Senior yorkie behavior 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 |
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12-17-2008, 08:23 AM | #2 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: pennsylvania
Posts: 783
| Not all older yorkies sleep a lot more but if he's losing his senses that could have something to do with it. I have a girl who has been blind since the age of 7. She used to sleep most of the day but now is awake and moving around much more. I think she is getting "confused" as she often just wanders around like she has no idea what she is doing. My first yorkie lived to a few weeks past 16 yrs and was very active til the very end |
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