Conformation shows will often have a showcase of past winners that parade through the ring, once again strutting their stuff. Some shows offer senior conformation classes.

Many yorkies continue to earn points and titles well into their teens. Also, many senior yorkie dogs are very excited about being fussed over, strutting like the youngsters in the next ring. Senior show yorkie dogs need never retire unless they begin to show disinterest or have a debilitating dysfunction.

Agility also caters to senior yorkie dogs with special competitions. Jumps and obstacles require less athletic ability, but still pose challenge for your dog. You can set up your own agility course in your backyard using boards.

A walk in the woods can prove just as stimulating as an agility course. You can place your senior yorkie on a sit/ stay command in a heavily treed area and go a short distance away. Call him to come. He’ll have to weave through the trees to come to you.

Another activity that offers lots of stimulation and is not overly stressful is tracking. While many of the dog’s senses such as sight and hearing degenerate with age, their sense of smell usually remains very strong. Tracking offers the stimulation of discovery as well as the thrill of performing.

Teaching a senior dog to track is one of the easiest things to teach because you are working with their natural predatory instincts. This activity can be started in your home by teaching the senior yorkie to find a treat.

Another job in which senior dogs excel is media or production work. Your senior yorkie could be an animal actor! Older dogs tend to have character – something that is greatly needed when doing a commercial or advertisement.

Many dogs that can no longer perform in the obedience ring can still do well in front of a camera. An animal actor must be photogenic. This means that his eyes should be expressive, and his body in good condition.

Until your yorkie is geriatric, he can remain in peak condition – shiny coat, teeth, and at the proper weight. Besides being in good health, animal actors must be able to perform at least the basic commands and respond quickly to both visual and verbal cues from a distance with any type of distraction.

This requires extensive training. If your senior yorkie is already an accomplished obedience trial dog, he’ll fit right in as an animal actor.

Your yorkie’s appearance has nothing to do with the competition, but he must be purebred if competing at an AKC-sanctioned show. However, if you have a mixed breed, the United Kennel Club allows you to compete at trials.

Competitors can also be neutered or spayed. In fact, a neutered dog tends to give a better performance because there are fewer odiferous distractions.

As in conformation classes, your yorkie must be at least six months old. You will find that most of the dogs in this competition are up to a year and a half, for it normally takes at least that long for their dogs to outgrow their puppy pranks.

You begin at the novice level. The title is called Companion Dog, or CD. In this class, your yorkie must be able to heel both on and off leash, walk round two people in a figure eight pattern, stand and stay, come off-lead, finish (go around you and place himself into heel position on one command).

He should remain in a one-minute sit-stay and three-minute down-stay with dogs on either side of him while you remain 30 feet away.

The next level is open, the Companion Dog Excellent title, or CDX. In this level, everything is done off leash. The judge runs you through a heeling pattern that includes at least two stops, right and left turns, and several about turns.

Then you must perform an off-lead figure eight around two people, a drop-on-recall, in which you call your yorkie from 30 feet away. Make him lie down when the judge signals you to do so, and then finish the recall with your dog coming to sit it front of you.

There are two retrieving exercises in the open class. One plain retrieve, where you tell your yorkie to stay, throw a dumbbell, send your dog to retrieve it, and have him return to a sit in front of you.

This is also done with your yorkie going over a jump both on the way to retrieve the dumbbell and on the way back to you.

Each exercise is topped off with finish. Next exercise is for your yorkie to jump over a broad jump without touching it. The jump consists of boards lying only a few inches from the ground.

The final exercises are for your yorkie to remain in a sit-stay for three minutes and a down-stay for five minutes – lined up with other dogs and you out of sight.

There are more fun things you and your yorkie dog can do together than there is time to do then –walking in the woods, camping, fishing, and even horseback riding. (more…)

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Bubby wanted to rip the ball form my cold dead fingers. It’s amazing how aggressive a sweet little Yorkie dog can be. People beware my Yorkie will claw and bite his way into your hearts.

I spent a few hours on this short 30 second clip so I hope you enjoy Bubby gnawing and clawing at my hand to get the ball. You’ll also notice the nature of our baby girl Yorkshire Terrier Bella. She is expecting me to give her the ball or bolt as soon as the ball is released form my hands.

But this movie is all about Bubby’s teddy bear claws, we had just taken him and Isabella to the groomers and I had forgotten to ask them to the claws. So they were rather longer than normal.

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Bella often wants to go with us whenever we get into the car.
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Baby yorkie Bella yapped her 1st yap at me.

We just got her and now she is going crazy! All because I she needed to be watched, so I put her on my desk. She is a little busy girl. Baby girl yorkie yaps video

Our sweet puppies playing fetch. Bella plays fetch and her whole life revolves around me playing fetch with her. Teacup Yorkies Fetching

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