I have heard that it isn’t good to let small dogs jump up and down furniture, so we have stairs for Jaxon to get up and down the sofa. He gets on it using the stairs no problem (probably because he can’t jump that high, lol) but almost never uses them to get down. He knows how to use them, and sometimes does, but most of the time he gets excited because someone is at the door, or he drops his toy and can’t stand to take the time to walk over to the steps (we have a huge sectional sofa and the steps are at one end) so he just jumps off from wherever he is.
So, my question is how small is too small to be jumping off furniture? At 5.5 lbs is he big enough to handle it without causing physical damage?
I have tried to make him use the stairs as often as I can but it’s almost impossible to keep him from jumping off, aside from banning him from the sofa, which I just can’t do it’s his favorite place to be.
I also want to mention that my sofa is a little higher than average and we have hard wood floors.