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04-13-2014, 10:30 AM | #1 |
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| Charlie is so loved...... Charlies dad making him a set of custom stairs for the couch. I didn't ask him to do this.. We were at home depot last night, and he started picking out wood. I asked him what he was doing and he said getting stuff to make Charlie stairs since his knees have been bothering him. He acts tough, but he loves him too. |
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04-13-2014, 10:35 AM | #2 |
Furbutts = LOVE Donating Member Moderator | Too cool! Geesh I wish my hubby was as handy as this! Does he do a lot of woodworking? What a softy , even though he acts tough.
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04-13-2014, 10:44 AM | #3 | |
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He can make just about anything... He doesn't do a lot of wooding, but he could if he wanted too. He is very creative. It's almost done. After it's done I am going to paint it. I am thinking white with little blue paw prints. lol | |
04-13-2014, 11:19 AM | #4 |
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| Final draft.. Now it just needs painted. |
04-13-2014, 11:44 AM | #5 |
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| A labor of love. If he's going to carpet it, why paint it?
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04-13-2014, 11:47 AM | #6 |
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04-13-2014, 11:50 AM | #7 |
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| Particularly because of Charlie's knees, I think carpeting would be better, too. You might be able to get carpeting that has grooves for traction.
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04-13-2014, 11:52 AM | #8 |
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| You've seen Charlie when he hears or see a mouse - terriers so nuts when they hear a critter outside or anywhere and they will hit their doggie stairs going about 90 miles and hour and slip even on carpeted stairs. They are wildmen - given to total abandon and don't think gravity or injury applies to them. Tibbe slips fairly often on his stairs and his ramp as he's reckless and not given to thinking when he hears a cat yowling or another dog barking "wrong" or someone is at the door. Charlie will likely lose his footing on just a wooden stairs if he comes off or onto it at the breakneck speed Tibbe does. Tibbe just scares me to death he hits those steps going so fast. He's fallen off more than three or four times and his are carpeted.
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04-13-2014, 11:58 AM | #9 | |
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So far he has ignored the stairs and keeps jumping up and down on the couch as usual. Oh well. Once he realizes they are there for him, I am sure he will use them. He uses the one by the bed every time. Then again, the bed is a lot higher than the couch. | |
04-13-2014, 12:21 PM | #10 | |
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Tibbe is so wild, he worries me silly. I hear him coming running hard and I know he's about to bolt into the room and hit his stairs or ramp and start yelling, "Slow down, Tibbe!" and unless I can get it out fast enough, he's hit that ramp speeding at the top! That's what I so love - and fear - about terriers. They are so committed to their hunt and boy, just don't think ahead at all. I've just held my breath more than a few times after he fell and picked himself up and dashed on, expecting at any moment to see him begin to limp. One of these days I have to start to slow him down. He's so totally focused on his object of what he's trying to get to, little thing. Such heart! Tibbe just jumped on the couch, too, when I first got his stairs, until I trained him to use his stairs or his ramp in the bedroom, using treats and happy praise and "uh oh"'d him for not using them so now he uses them full time. If he's in a terrible hurry, he can sail completely over them coming or going but I always scold him for that and he's stopped doing that altogether, little toot. If Charlie thinks they feel slick to his feet, he might sense he could slip and won't use them but likely he's just not used to them in the den and you'll have to train him to use them. I thought Tibbe never would stop bypassing them but finally he did start to use them. Now, if I can just get him to slow down when he's on the hunt and racing!
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