Do your babies go down the stairs??

[ccorder]

My little Evie is almost 7mo old and 3lbs. She will run up the stairs (17 of them) like she would on the ground. It is hilarious. If she ever stops you have to pick her up b/c she cannot make it up the rest. She WILL NOT come down them. I am actually afraid for her to even try. I have stood at the bottom and she just looks at me and runs in circles for me to come and pick her up. I am not sure if she will ever be able to come down them.

Courtney

[Amber_lv]

Love the name lol.. Well my Peeka(lol) he was going up and down the stairs since about 9 weeks with no probs he is now 9 months and does it with ease. Our new baby Daisy is 12 weeks and she can mad dash up them but if she is higher than the 3rd stair she won't come down them. They are determined though and eventually will go down it only took Peeka 2 days to master them

[friesianlady]

Not one of mine (6) will either go up or down stairs.....I do use a gate, however our Gwen can leap that in seconds, but stairs no way....All mine are over the age of 1 1/2..

[alaskayorkie]

If you can get a bigger or more confident dog to show them how to go down the stairs, it helps. Eddie hated them for a long, long time, but a friend's Irish Setter showed him how to do it.

[shalynn65]

Jeter is 1 1/2 years old and 9 pounds and cries like a baby at the top of the stairs. He can go up, but forget about down. I have to carry him down.

[BLowry]

Sadie is 3 yrs old....she can go up and down stairs like a streak of light...I took the carpeting off, (it was ugly) so they are just wood now...she is a little more careful going up and down now...she has fallen down them a couple of times...scared the SH** out of me...Lillie is 7 months old...she has never even attempted them...that's ok with me...she isn't as big as Sadie and she has shorter legs...I don't mind carrying her though.

[Mommy of Brandi]

Brandi is up and down like a pro......of course I only have 6 steps.......but it's a good thing because her pee pee pad is upstairs......and her food is downstairs........but she loves running up and down.......it makes me a little nervous though....

[LittleFurbabies]

Thanks everybody, Peeka Boo is so weird, he'll jump off my almost 2ft high bed but he hates going down from small heights. I think ill put a gate 2-3 stairs down just in case he falls or something. I'll pray that he never goes under the rail.

[LuvMySissy]

Sissy began going up and down the stairs at 14 week of age (and just over 2 lbs). But a couple weeks after that, she took a mean tumble down the stairs and has never gone down since. Thats been well over a year now and she still won't go down stairs. I think because of her tiny size, she has almost a slinky effect and she topples very easily when the typical stair is almost as tall as she is!!

She has no problem flying off the couch or chair and she will jump off our bed (which is really high) when she is excited.

[Kodak]

Kodak goes up and down stairs with carpet on them only. If there's no carpet, he's not budging. Maybe it's to slippery.

[MyTrixie143]

All my babies go up and down stairs fine, that is all except Scampers.
Scampers can go up stairs fine, he zooms right up them. But going down is another story. He is terrified of going down them, he absolutely won't do it. I got tired of him running up the stairs and then whining and barking because he couldn't go down them. So I put a gate up in front of the stairs so he won't be able to go up them and get stuck. I have been working with him on going down stairs since he was 12 weeks old, I did alot of training but it didn't do any good. He is now a year old now and still won't go down the stairs. The most I have ever gotten him to go down stairs was the last 3 steps on the bottom, other than that you can forget it. Don't know what his problem is with going down stairs but he won't do it. So now anytime I go down stairs I have to carry him.

4 months is young, it took a little bit longer with some of my other dogs so you still have plenty of time to work on it.