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| Tweet Topic Started: 15 Jan 2013, 08:11 (1,055 Views) | |
| Beaky | 15 Jan 2013, 08:11 Post #1 |
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Bit of an odd one I know ![]() Sasha thunders up and down. All stairs. All the time. Her favourite thing at work when I take her in is to run up and down the stairs. Just because (stupid dog). If there is an obstruction (read: stupid human) or for any reason she cannot run, she will not walk. She just sits and looks until the obstruction moves or is moved. Physically she is very fit with no arthritis or other aches and pains that we are aware of, and she has been this way forever (she is 10 now). So how do your dogs use the stairs? |
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| doggylover | 15 Jan 2013, 08:36 Post #2 |
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Scruffy and Jan bounce up the stairs. Harvey doesn't like stairs and needs a gentle |
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| noodlecurlymum | 15 Jan 2013, 09:40 Post #3 |
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both run up and down them, curly though is a bit like a toddler in that he misses out the last 3 or so and just jumps down all 3 like whoohoo i can leap 3 at once and yes he does have a whoohoo look on his face too .when he does it! honey my bridge girl used to drop a tennis ball down the steps just for the love of chasing it, dropping it and doing it over and over but then she was a more normal collie x and not a loopy terrier! both honey and now curly also like to lie on the top step asleep with their head dangling over the edge.
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| Nikirooshka | 15 Jan 2013, 11:01 Post #4 |
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Everyone takes them fairly sensibly except Saffi, who bombs up and down them like she's going to die if she doesn't It's not for fun - she's genuinely trying to stay alive She's slipped a couple of times in the past but she's done it right from the day she arrived so I assume she's slipped in the past too.She's calmer these days since I put carpet back down for Tia (who took them slowly but fell right down them once) but she still goes up at quite a speed! |
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| Carolynleah | 15 Jan 2013, 11:12 Post #5 |
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In his youth Will the staffie would thunder up and down, taking out anyone who got in his way We soon learnt to watch out for him! Now he is elderly and a bit wonky he walks up and then sort of skips down. Nerys the cocker races up and down and up and down when the mood takes her. Both often lie at the top, ready to trip me up if I am not looking!
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| Linzi82 | 15 Jan 2013, 15:02 Post #6 |
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Freyja takes them at hundred miles an hour, up and down, sometimes three steps at a time, which is a bit as our stairs are quite steep. The only time she is sensible is when she thinks we might throw a ball up the stairs for her and she's at the top. Then it's a very weird jump down one step at a time while trying to lie down
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| Jazzlet | 15 Jan 2013, 15:39 Post #7 |
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Most of the time Thorn goes up and down so quietly you don't realise she has, which is why she occasionally gets shut out in the garden as I assume she's upstairs She is more likely to run down in the mornings, when she's going down with Jake and me too, and she's on the way to the back door Jake is much noisier and tends to take them faster, though not always at a full run and he sometimes stops part way up, especially if he's following a human. I think he must have been taught not to overtake on the stairs
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| helenatruralhome | 15 Jan 2013, 16:57 Post #8 |
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Sheba is fine with with covered stairs but is scared of gaps in flooring so if there are stairs that are open she will stop dead and won't move or close her eyes and go on them quickly or she will do them very slowly, one by one She is scared of the gaps in decking too!
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| staffymad | 15 Jan 2013, 16:59 Post #9 |
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First thing in the morning = I have to bribeLilly Loon to come downstairs The rest of the day its '100mph up and down' and any obstacles, i.e. humans in the way just get run over
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| Carolynleah | 15 Jan 2013, 17:28 Post #10 |
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When I couldn't remember the way back to my hotel room except up the fire escape (I have no sense of direction) Will climbed up the spiral staircase with me ~ bless him, if I am going somewhere, he is coming with me
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| missuswilderness | 15 Jan 2013, 17:36 Post #11 |
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We have narrow open stairs. Perhaps not the best when you have monster dogs! The hounds, apart from Delboy, do them carefully and in very delicate fashion. They will not push past anyone. And Meggie does this weird looking through and then sweeping her nose round. Sidlington trots up and down raising his camp little paws terribly high. Charles and Holly take them at higher speed... Charles less so now he is hitting nearly 14! Holly is a bit like SashaPants. She goes only when she gets a clear run. Then we have Delboy. Who had obviously never done stairs before he came here. He soon learnt with me ding front legs, OH doing back. He does huge bunny hops up, at speed, pushes to get down before anyone and occasionally screams if we are downstairs and he is up and he can't be bothered to move Then Thuggie... I am not sure even I can describe quite how awful it is hearing an Irish Wolfhound take stairs at high speed. One day he really won't make the turn and will go straight through the window at the bottom
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| missuswilderness | 15 Jan 2013, 17:41 Post #12 |
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You've just made me think about Ancient Anita - one of my previous fosters. A 17 year old terrier who had been kept in a kitchen cupboard (she is still going). One of the most joyous things she discovered was stairs. It was fabulous to watch her. She cowered at the bottom to start with or ran off as she had obviously been punished for going up stairs. I remember being overjoyed seeing her when she got confident enough that no one would hurt her hurtling up and down and up and down and up and down and up and down She was rehomed to a house with two sets of stairs and does circuits
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| Jazzlet | 15 Jan 2013, 17:50 Post #13 |
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I didn't know that, how lovely
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| Wheelygirl | 15 Jan 2013, 20:17 Post #14 |
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Oh gosh, I remember Anita's story. How is she doing these days? |
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| gsdsian | 16 Jan 2013, 12:43 Post #15 |
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Mab charges up and down the stairs like a demented fool. Partly because he is a demented fool and partly because his legs are so stumpy he couldn't walk up them if he wanted to.Rocket bounces up my stairs at home (very steep) but the work stairs which are a bit shallower (but not carpeted) he trots up quite calmly. |
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| Redhelen | 16 Jan 2013, 13:21 Post #16 |
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Spike, Ollie and Poppy all do them in a very controlled way. Cally runs up quite nicely, but gallops down them doing sort on bunny hops when she gets to the bottom she stops and looks to see where I am. she will then come back up to meet me and bunny hop back down again. Mad as a box of frogs |
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| NickyJo | 16 Jan 2013, 13:22 Post #17 |
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Muffin is pretty much like this ![]() http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YG751CRnXg |
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| Frying Pan Di | 16 Jan 2013, 18:25 Post #18 |
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we live in a bungalow - they haven't got a clue
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| Paws | 17 Jan 2013, 12:52 Post #19 |
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Two take the stairs normally one races up and down them and little MayDog bunnyhops infact the other day i was watching her and as her ears flapped with each litle jump she could easily have been mistaken for a wabbit
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It's not for fun - she's genuinely trying to stay alive
She's slipped a couple of times in the past but she's done it right from the day she arrived so I assume she's slipped in the past too.
We soon learnt to watch out for him! Now he is elderly and a bit wonky he walks up and then sort of skips down. Nerys the cocker races up and down and up and down when the mood takes her. Both often lie at the top, ready to trip me up if I am not looking!

as our stairs are quite steep. The only time she is sensible is when she thinks we might throw a ball up the stairs for her and she's at the top. Then it's a very weird jump down one step at a time while trying to lie down
Jake is much noisier and tends to take them faster, though not always at a full run and he sometimes stops part way up, especially if he's following a human. I think he must have been taught not to overtake on the stairs
She is scared of the gaps in decking too!
The rest of the day its '100mph up and down' and any obstacles, i.e. humans in the way just get run over



one races up and down them
and little MayDog bunnyhops
2:28 PM Jul 11