Dog phobia

[Harry Bloomfield]

She is more than happy, to hop on the adapted stairlift, to ride up. I have had her on it coming back down, just to prove it was feasible, but she normally makes her way down. It's painfully slow, one step, a pause, then another, if she goes down in front of someone, but faster if she is on her own. All fine for months, until she developed a phobia...

She would get to the bottom step, before the ground, and get absolutely stuck there, whining, indecisive, maybe end up tripping, and falling on to the floor.

That lasted for several weeks, before her confidence overcame the problem, and now she's fine with the bottom step.

 

[mattylad]

We do not have a carpet on our 2 sets of stairs as we ripped it up and threw it away when we were getting the hallway plastered.
It's been a couple of years but we have other things that need sorting before we carpet again.

Anyhoo, my wife bought some stair rugs that fit on each step, she did 1 flight and had 4 left so put them on the bottom of the other flight.
Problem was our Alfie the ever so tough German Shepherd was in the attic at the time and would not come down on them.
Apparently it was an ideal take a picture moment lol.

Dogs, go figure.
One day they take a massive leap into a river the next they are scared of a crisp packet

 

[Ihavenojob]

We had a golden retriever that would not pee or pooh anywhere but on grass. My brother looked after her while we were away for a while, he had a concreted back garden, so ended up buying one roll of turf for her to do her business on.

 

[Mottie]

She is more than happy, to hop on the adapted stairlift, to ride up. I have had her on it coming back down, just to prove it was feasible, but she normally makes her way down. It's painfully slow, one step, a pause, then another, if she goes down in front of someone, but faster if she is on her own. All fine for months, until she developed a phobia...

She would get to the bottom step, before the ground, and get absolutely stuck there, whining, indecisive, maybe end up tripping, and falling on to the floor.

That lasted for several weeks, before her confidence overcame the problem, and now she's fine with the bottom step.

Poor Avril.

 

[Koolpc]

She is more than happy, to hop on the adapted stairlift, to ride up. I have had her on it coming back down, just to prove it was feasible, but she normally makes her way down. It's painfully slow, one step, a pause, then another, if she goes down in front of someone, but faster if she is on her own. All fine for months, until she developed a phobia...

She would get to the bottom step, before the ground, and get absolutely stuck there, whining, indecisive, maybe end up tripping, and falling on to the floor.

That lasted for several weeks, before her confidence overcame the problem, and now she's fine with the bottom step.

Are you on about your misses?

 

[denso13]

My Mrs has a dog and cat phobia. She hates both.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

We had a golden retriever that would not pee or pooh anywhere but on grass. My brother looked after her while we were away for a while, he had a concreted back garden, so ended up buying one roll of turf for her to do her business on.

This one, has a similar problem - she poos on the front garden, which I covered in large pebbles. That area is segregated from the front path to the door, by being a few inches higher, with a low, split log wall, retaining the pebbles. Having a pee, she steps her front legs onto the wall, so the urine lands on the path, it then runs down the path to collect by the garden gate. We've tried lots of things to try to deter her, to go elsewhere, but it makes no difference.

Take her out, and she always waits until she gets home.

 

[Mottie]

Take her out, and she always waits until she gets home.

Mrs Mottie is the same - she will hold on to it rather than use a public convenience.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Long ago, we set up a little bed for her, on the bedroom floor - nothing fancy, just a folded up old quilt, covered in some material. Last thing on a night, she gets a bit of biscuit from Avril, then a bit from me, but only when she gets on and lays down on the bed. She now needs no encouragement to lay on the bed, but only usually stays on it for a minute or two, then gets up to lay on the carpet somewhere, a very vocal about it. Moans, groans, and lots of complaints from her. Her noises, sometimes, wake us during the night. She does a great impression of a 'tribble', and some of her noises sound quite human, so much so, she has fooled me.

She has another bed, downstairs, one she makes good use of. Last night for the first time, she actually stayed on the bed, the entire night, right through to the early hours. She was also much less vocal.