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when did you introduce stairs to your pups...mine are 4 month and i want them to start to sleep in my room as soon as possible but it is upstairs...i have introduced them to stairs and can climp up and down them ok but i have heard someplaces that you should not let them climb up stairs much if not at all until they are full grown or like 1 year but in other sources i have heard that you should intro duce them to stairs earlier so they are use to it and as long as they arent constantly running up and down the steps and are not playing on the stairs and are calmly useing the steps then it is fine...but i do not know which one to chose because i do not want to hurt there fragile little frames
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Permalink Reply by Sam Tsang on
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When we first got our pups, we were living in a condo and we pretty much started stairs within weeks. I didn't read anything bad about climbing up stairs, but it is bad for a corgi to jump "off" stairs when coming down, they could land not properly and potentially hurt their back, so we forbid our pups to jump off the stairs until they're 1, when their bone structure is more developed
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Permalink Reply by wendulik on
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As you said, it's OK if the pup is using the stairs calmly. But because the short legs and long back it could be dangerous for corgi to go down the stairs too often. Also for an old dog it's very dagerous to walk the stairs. I've read a case of an old dog which died after falling from high stairs. Introduce the stairs to your pups, but don't let them play on the stairs madly. Keep an eye on them when climbng down the stairs.
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Permalink Reply by Kristen on
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I think it is a good idea to wait until they are of a size that it is not a jump from stair to stair. When they are smaller the little corgi butt sometimes gets ahead of the rest of the body and the risk for tumbling down stairs is great. You are already past that stage. We live in an older house and the stairs are slightly steeper than newer homes. I carried the dogs when they were younger--when they were coordinated to go up--we still carried them down and worked with them to practice on the lower part of the staris. While all of our dogs have mastered the stairs. Fergie (7 months) still perfers to come down the stairs side by side with another dog--barking at each step. Corgis are highly atlletic animals and if stairs are a daily part of their lives they should be fine. I don't think it would be necessary to wait until a year. It just needs to be a no play zone. I agree with Sam, waiting on the jumping till they are older is a good idea.
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