Dog Eat Doug by Brian Anderson for December 06, 2014

  1. Blunebottle
    blunebottle  almost 10 years ago

    Oh, come on….a lab tripping on stairs? Ours did end up sliding down the stairs on her back once, however.

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    Ida No  almost 10 years ago

    It is true. Stairs are an abomination that Mother Nature plans to eliminate in the next Great Extinction. A friendly warning, don’t be on the stairs when it happens.

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    miscreant  almost 10 years ago

    Being a lab and there only being 4 steps there, when she gets older it will become 1 step up and 1 step down. Usually full speed and distance are a factor too.

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    rdh288  almost 10 years ago

    I used to have a basset hound who would go up and down stairs by hopping all four legs at once. Every once in a while he would accidentally start to pick up speed and start flailing by the end. When someone came in the door, he forgot all that, ran down the stairs, slid on the door mat, bounced hard off the door, sometimes rolling over in the process, and ran off like it was nothing.

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    weaverrabbits  almost 10 years ago

    My English Lop is no longer allowed to go up the stairs – he has no problem with up, but DOWN is a big problem. He starts out ok, then his back end gets ahead of the front end and he’s rolling down by the 3rd step down. Had to catch him twice! (didn’t know I could move that fast!! lol)

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    jbmlaw01  almost 10 years ago

    Our pit-lab not only dislikes stairs, but he refuses to walk more than one step on any uncarpeted floor. And does not like thunderstorms, or even drizzle, nor riding in the car. And is regularly abused by our 5 pound cat. We call him “80 pounds of neuroses.” But he is a sweet, gentle creature.

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    tcar-1  almost 10 years ago

    Where Sophie ‘lives’ not enough snowfall to create snow banks! At least on normal winter patterns.

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    Grey Forest  almost 10 years ago

    Our Corgi was terrified of the porch steps when he was a tiny puppy. A couple of times he would trip going down and would end up rolling down the rest of the way. Even after he got bigger and became confident of the porch steps, he still refuses to go down the basement stairs.

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    Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    This would have been funnier if “shot” closer to the stairs. I kept waiting for one of the cats to appear in the upper right window or in the door.

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    I AM CARTOON LADY!  almost 10 years ago

    Come, come now Sophie…a Queen holds her head up high, even when she falls off her throne!

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    calliopejane  almost 10 years ago

    I once had to TEACH an adult dog (~ 3 y. o.) how to use stairs — she was a rescue from an abuse/neglect situation, and had spent her life in a pen up til that point. She was a little skittish in general, and had obviously had never encountered stairs in her life. She kept trying to do a sort of two-paws-on-each-step hopping thing (not at all stable) rather than an alternating-foot-walking-type action.

    But with much patience, a lot of treats, and many many demonstrations by our other dog, she finally got the hang of it!

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