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debi_s · 06-23-2005, 03:53 PM

I have been trying to "teach" my dogs to go down the steps for 2 months.

Apple, the chi, is over 1 year old and flies UP the steps all the time.....
Lil Bit is now 7 1/2 months old and she, too, flies UP the steps as well.

But they both stand frozen at the top of the steps barking like maniacs if they want to go down the steps!!!

The way my house is built we go down the steps into the basement and out the back door into the fenced back-yard. They LOVE going outside but trying to catch they at the same time is really getting old. Apple will run and jump on the couch and circle and circle and circle until I pick her up. Lil Bit will now do the exact same thing (because she learned it from Apple).....

So....back to the dumb part...... I have been picking the two of them up (just like usual) and taking them to the steps....I have practiced and practiced this for 2 months.....I sit on the step ..putting one of them down and letting them go down the steps themselves.....I have worked my way up from the bottom 3 steps all the way to the top!

So.....now.....if I put them down on the top step they freeze and shake like they are going to die any moment.....but..if I put them on the next to the top step they just bounce on down all 14 steps!!!

As I sit here typing (the 'office'/computer is in the basement) Lil Bit is up at the top of the steps barking her head off like she is being dismembered by a lunatic...and Apple is crying.....

UGH!!!

I think this weekend I may just put a big fat juicy steak at the bottom and see who gets it first!!!!!

06-23-2005, 03:53 PM	#1
debi_s YT Addict Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Upstate S.C. Posts: 309	How dumb is this....... I have been trying to "teach" my dogs to go down the steps for 2 months. Apple, the chi, is over 1 year old and flies UP the steps all the time..... Lil Bit is now 7 1/2 months old and she, too, flies UP the steps as well. But they both stand frozen at the top of the steps barking like maniacs if they want to go down the steps!!! The way my house is built we go down the steps into the basement and out the back door into the fenced back-yard. They LOVE going outside but trying to catch they at the same time is really getting old. Apple will run and jump on the couch and circle and circle and circle until I pick her up. Lil Bit will now do the exact same thing (because she learned it from Apple)..... So....back to the dumb part...... I have been picking the two of them up (just like usual) and taking them to the steps....I have practiced and practiced this for 2 months.....I sit on the step ..putting one of them down and letting them go down the steps themselves.....I have worked my way up from the bottom 3 steps all the way to the top! So.....now.....if I put them down on the top step they freeze and shake like they are going to die any moment.....but..if I put them on the next to the top step they just bounce on down all 14 steps!!! As I sit here typing (the 'office'/computer is in the basement) Lil Bit is up at the top of the steps barking her head off like she is being dismembered by a lunatic...and Apple is crying..... UGH!!! I think this weekend I may just put a big fat juicy steak at the bottom and see who gets it first!!!!!