[QUOTE=JadeD;4552948]How sad. I love the way she wrote it though, very moving.
Teek is always on the furniture. He loves to be on the couch and he really enjoys being on the back of the couch, but there is a wall behind the couch so I don't worry about his falling off onto the floor, if he fell he would land on a very padded couch. As far as the couch he can get up and down off it on his own.
He is always lifted on/off our bed. He is only allowed in our room at night to go to sleep (or if I have a migraine he is there during the day with me). Our bed is very high and I do not let him try to jump on or off it. If he gets near the edge I tell him to wait and I will get him off it and so far he has listened to me. One day he went in our bedroom and I stopped at the kids rooms to say night to them. I saw him in our room jumping straight up to see if Daddy was on the bed to lift him and the bed was empty so he waited for me to get there. It was so cute.
I couldn't imagine the heartbreak of losing a dog like that though. So sad, but it was a freak accident.[/QUOTE]
I know it's very sad, she first said she could not jump on the couch then she said she jumped to get the ball, I think she probably meant that she got on the couch with the stairs but then jumped off, that's why I keep thinking it's not good to encourage a pet to get up on something that is not safe for them to get off.
I often feel the way Lola plays puts her one or two steps from death, I am constantly trying to protect her from herself. She also likes to bring a toy on the couch and then jump off expecting us to throw it to her, I don't but my husband does and we fight over it constantly. We have a large glass coffee table and he eats dinner at it, I keep pushing the table away several feet and he keeps pulling it back
I am afraid she will hit her head on it because she jumps off while looking back at us to see if we are going to throw the toy. Today I was carrying stuff down to the basement, my hands were full so I could not close the door behind me, but I did not worry since she does well on those stairs but this time she decided just as I was heading down to push her ball down the steps, normally she likes to watch it bounce but she thinks like a dog and I believe she wanted to beat me to the ball, LOL even though I had no plans to get it. She started running full throttle down the steps so fast that she had trouble stopping so she ran into the wall at the bottom of the stairs, thankfully she has learned to pull back quickly so she did not hit to hard, but if she was more frail and perhaps had a few issues who knows what could have happened. I used to very happy to have a pup that likes to fetch but she is so crazy about it that I think she could easily get hurt.