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Originally Posted by RONLYNN  Teddi has always been a jumper. She jumps on and off the couch all the time but most of my friends with tinys can't jump up at all. I kind of wish she couldn't jump but she can and has been since she was little so I don't think she would stop now. |
Oh, I bet she would if you train her and make going up and coming down the doggie steps the best thing in the whole ,whole world to her! I still have to go back and use a piece of hot dog or something to bait Tibbe up and down his steppies so that he gets the idea going up and down these steps just makes mommie soooo happy and besides there are bits of hot dog waiting. He uses them routinely but once in a great while he bounds right off the couch onto the floor, so we go back to basics for a time.
Enough training like that and lots of praise plus an "uh oh" and kind of turning your head away from them for a while when they do jump down off the couch itself, can gradually them to using the doggie stpes. Tibbe just almost took right to those steps once he learned not to be afraid of them and that they were after all a fun game! Good luck!