Stair saga and dog, part 2

[B00]

In the never ending quest to decorate our stairs (taking bloody forever by the way!) we've decided against painting the stairs, seeing what a total disaster painting one step caused with my twonk of a dog (see previous post!)

We've hit upon the grand idea of laminating each step instead, just painting the vertical bit of each step and putting down stair mats on each step.

Mr Boo has already put down four steps worth of laminate, and we'll get more and finish it off at the weekend when he gets paid.

Now round to the point of my post (I don't half waffle- sorry!). The simple dog refuses to walk on the steps with the laminate on. The first couple of nights we carried her upstairs to bed each time, before we thought "bugger that for a game of soldiers". Yesterday i refused to carry her back down again and left for work for 4 hours, naively thinking she'd come down on her own within that time frame. She didn't, she was still sat at the top of the stairs when I got home.

I've tried bribing, yelling, cajoling, dragging- nowt's getting her up the stairs, or down again.

Any ideas?

[ummmm]

They are a good idea Rowan.

[B00]

ewwww, no, don't like those rowan, plus if I had clear plasticy carpet things down, id still have to do something with the actual steps, which is why we laminated them in the first place.

[B00]

it is time consuming Ummmm, we couldn't believe it. We'd finished the bathroom, and decided before we embarked on the next big project (Mini Boo's room) we'd do something small..ha!

[ummmm]

I was going to sand ours down after we had the flood but the insurance company said we had to replace the carpet :-(

[rowanwitch]

Apparently they go over wood too... Personally i'd settle for downstairs dog and an everywhere cat

[albaqwerty]

ummmm, couldn't you just say naff off to the insurance co. It's your home and how you decorate it is to your taste, not theirs, unless they want to come and pay rent.

(Sorry B00)

[arwyn]

Boo our cat hated the laminate floors at first. Then we put a large rug down in the livingroom which she refused to walk on, she walked all round the edge of the room to get to us. We have just change the bathroom flooring and at first she refused to go in there. So its not just dogs (never owned one) that are mad. :)

[FredPuli43]

Nothing mad about your dog. I had a Hungarian puli who never learned to use the stairs at all. He never learned to use the dog- flap either, not improved when I showed him how and got my own head stuck in it.

So don't show yours it's safe it by getting down on all fours and descending head first. Get a kid to do it.

He'll have to be a downstairs dog for the time being. Odds on you'll carry him down and he'll run back up, laughing his doggy head off.

[RATTER15]

Just leave the dog down stairs, my dogs have never been permitted up stairs. Dogs hate laminate, they slip and slide on the horrible stuff.

How about some boots with extra grip for you poor dog.

[B00]

Forgot about this post!

She's cracked it :-)