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Originally Posted by mimimomo  So happy that Piccolo is feeling better!
Mimi is 7 years young & sometimes she won't go up & down the stairs by herself. She'll stand by the staircase & whine & I'll help her go up/down one & she'll go up/down the rest of the way. When nobody is downstairs, she'll come up on her own, so sometimes I think she just does it to be a baby loll! |
Wow, you sound like you are describing Piccolo. Isn't that funny?
It used to be that Piccolo whined at the bottom of the steps, especially when we took the carpet off and had the hardwood redone. Honestly, it was causing so many problems for our dogs that we had new wall-to-wall carpet put back on those very steps. (What we do for our pups.
) So, she had been going up and down independently after a few tries of practicing on the first step and getting her started, such as you described. Then, for her to start whining to be carried up again made me think she was in pain. I have to admit that Robert and I did discuss whether we thought she was trying to be a princess and get attention/be carried. But, decided it was probably pain. She appears to be doing better, but did whine once today to be carried. Anyway, thanks for sharing!