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Originally Posted by lolabella Mia is the same way. She loves to run up the stairs but won't go down. I had to get a gate too. It got very annoying to have to go pick her up at the top of the stairs whenever I turned my back for a second.
I tried to teach her to go down the stairs by putting her on step one. She can go down 2 steps perfectly well if she feels like it, but if she doesn't she'll just bark and bark. I gave up on it, and I am considering making a small ramp for her. |
Sissy will go up the stairs no problem (faster than me). She is 4 lbs. She began doing the stairs a few weeks after she came to live with me (when she was 13 weeks and not quite 2 lbs). She has always done fine going up, but she fell down the stairs during that first week she was tackling the stairs and she has not gone down since (she is now 10 months old). She won't even try. I do spend much time upstairs, however (we have a tri-level, with 5 stairs) and the office/computer is upstairs and we don't have a TV on the main level either.
She has no problem jumping down from couches, or stepping off the deck and edging bricks in the yard. But they are the equivalent of just one step. I think her issue is that she tended to "tip over" stepping down when she was younger and that is why she fell down the stairs. Many little guys handle stairs without any difficulty.