How to keep puppy downstairs

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getcarter wrote: »

I've always just trained my dogs not to by saying no if they step a foot on the stairs, never had any problems (puppy as well as full grown dogs).
As long as you are consistant there shouldn't be a problem. (Obviously only works if you are there though!)
Carter

me too - I have never had a stair gate on, and I have never let dogs upstairs... every dog I have had has got the hang of this within a few days - just like you as soon as the dog puts a foot on the stairs I have told them no, or 'ah ah!' and they have always picked it up - has always been adult dogs in my case though.

Kimberley

tru wrote: »

Spindles

Lol thats it

clairibel

Our dog when she was a pup was murder for going upstairs but we just were consistent with her and kept taking her down and saying no-no and soon after it worked and she never does it now.....apart from when it's thundering and then she bolts wherever we are :eek:.

Just takes a bit of time and patience, also we have a crate and if we were nipping out when she was pup i would put her in there safe with her kong.

david39

If the puppy has the run of the hall and kitchen, why not extend this to cover the stairs and landing, and just close the upstairs room doors?

Alternatively, I would have thought it straight forward to put a couple of items like cardboard cartons onto one of the lower steps to block off his access to the rest of the staircase. I'm sure that after a few weeks his interest in going upstairs would then wane or he'll be old enough to quickly train as suggested above.

suki1964

david39 wrote: »

If the puppy has the run of the hall and kitchen, why not extend this to cover the stairs and landing, and just close the upstairs room doors?

Alternatively, I would have thought it straight forward to put a couple of items like cardboard cartons onto one of the lower steps to block off his access to the rest of the staircase. I'm sure that after a few weeks his interest in going upstairs would then wane or he'll be old enough to quickly train as suggested above.

Puppies should not have free run of stairs. their hips and knee joints will suffer in later years and also you dont want to come home and find the poor thing dead after strangling itself in the spindles or falling through them


An unstable "blockade" is also dangerous