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Jun 22nd, 2009, 10:26pm
 
Our new dog Trixie is fantastic, however she insists on going upstairs in our house. However she refuses to come down again. Is there a knack to getting greyhounds trained to go up and down stairs?
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Reply #1 - Feb 16th, 2010, 12:03pm
 
Funnily enough, we had the opposite problem with our grey who has always been fine coming down, but wasn't going up  Grin. And it's something that we had to tackle from day one, because our front door is up a flight of stairs.
We overcame the problem slowly, by literally introducing each paw to each step. I'd recommend also holding on to her collar when she starts to walk down as they tend to feel more secure if they know you're there with them. When you try and lead her down, let her go near the wall, or the solid banister if you don't have a wall on one side. Riley seems to want to 'lean' into the wall as he goes down I think this is an attempt to steady himself.

introducing each paw to the step in front will take a while, and you may also need to give her a 'nudge' up the bum - not hard enough to force her to topple down (which will probably make the problem worse) but to encourage the brain to 'move forward' - a tip I got from Cesar  Wink and normally this will do the trick.

Finally, give her lots of fuss and a treat when she makes it down.

Riley learnt the stairs within a matter of days, up and down. Very occassionally he will 'freeze' on them - more often than not when he's got a bit excited and slightly slipped on them so you may have to be prepared to come to her rescue from time to time.
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Re: Stairs
Reply #2 - Feb 19th, 2010, 1:01pm
 
Hi

I taught my girl by using two long towels .. one round her chest and the other under her tum just in front of her back legs .. you are safe too and you can move her gently down the steps like a puppet but tighten the towel round her chest so she's safe ... I personally wouldn't ever push them in anyway as you need them to feel they can trust you so you don't want to frighten them .. but then again I don't think I want to do anything Mr Milan does either ....
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