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?

[rowanwitch]

Get the cat to chase her... or spoil the cat upstairs with something edible hopefully the dog will not be able to resist

[B00]

The stars have not phased the cat at all Rowan, she still thunders up and down like she's royalty and we're all her subjects.

[chi-chi66]

aaaww bless.....what about smearing a small amount of favourite food on
steps, trying to keep cat out of the way too?

Look forward to you're next posting lol x

[rowanwitch]

So enlist her help... let the dog see her getting treats at the top of the stairs and see if greed and jealousy do the trick...

[craft1948]

I'm reporting you for cruelty.................everyone knows dogs don't like laminate.

[tenrec]

When you say laminate, do you mean that slippery imitation wood? Perhaps the dog doesn't feel safe.

[B00]

Nope, didn't work Rowan.

I refuse to carry her up and down any more!

Bloody bonkers mutt, why can't I have normal pets like other people seem to have?

[rowanwitch]

little doggy slippers with grippy soles glue carpet to his feet so he can feel the pile

[nannybooby]

I dont think that the dag can get a grip on the laminate , the cat will just jump over that part and be ok but the dog cant. Hope when you put down stair mat the proplem is cured.

[B00]

possibly tenrec,but not a lot I can do now. It's down and staying down. How do other people with laminate and dogs carry on?

[tenrec]

Well, don't take the dog to bed ...... ;=)

[B00]

That might be the only solution tenrec, she becomes a 'downstairs dog'.

[ummmm]

I don't understand what you've done with the stairs. Laminated the step and painted the riser? Then you're going to put mats on every step?

[B00]

Yes. We were going to sand 'em down, and paint them. But the are stairs too rough, and frankly with a dog, cat and child that can't/won't stay off them that proved impossible.

[ummmm]

Are they special stair mats?

In my other house I had them sanded and painted. It looked really nice.

[rowanwitch]

http://www.hardwarean...ad-u397000.html?lct=s

I wonder if anyone in the uk does anything like it..?

[B00]

Yeah, special ones, similar to these, but ours will cover the full step.

http://www.ebay.co.uk...s&hash=item20c508ac18

We really did want to sand them and paint them but proved just bloomin' painful and sooooo not worth it!

[albaqwerty]

'Bloody bonkers mutt, why can't I have normal pets like other people seem to have'

Nope perfickly normal imo

Get the mutt to go down the carpeted sides. If not just donn't cary it upstairs and see if it'll come up :o)

[rowanwitch]

http://www.wjdennis-r...pets/StairTreads.aspx

they do

[ummmm]

Very time consuming.

I don't think I'd found AB when I did ours :-)