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Puppies and stairs/jumping

2K views 33 replies 9 participants last post by  Melissa Brill 
Our rule of thumb is they can't jump off anything they can't jump up on. By the time they can jump onto a sofa, it's not only okay for them to jump down, but you're probably not going to be able to keep them from jumping down all the time.
 
Some of them you're just not going to stop. Nike was jumping on, and off furniture when she was 12 weeks old. She was jumping sideways over her littermates when she was 6 weeks old.

Birdy is named that because she spends a high percentage of her time airborne. Gates are not even an inconvenience to her.

Ruby jumped over a 2' gate, both ways, when she had puppies. She came and went as she saw fit. All the others we've had to let them in and out. One of her Daughters is named Spring, not for the season, but for the spring in her legs.

None of them have ever had an injury. All our floors are wood, or smooth.
 
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