SUCCESS!!!  Well, kind of…

A little over a month ago (see post Product Review - Pet Steps), we invested in some Pet Steps for Oscar in an attempt to curb his tendencies to hurl himself out of our bed and potentially injure himself.

He quickly mastered going UP the stairs which presented him with far better bed accessibility (wonderful…), but until about a week ago, unless we stood at the bottom of the stairs with his favorite treat and coaxed him down, he was continuing to leap to the ground - giving me a heart attack every time.

So I’m happy to report that we’ve kind of had a breakthrough in the past week - Oscar has begun to use the stairs to get DOWN from the bed of his own volition about 50% of the time.   Of course, when he does come down the steps on his own, he’ll stand at the bottom wagging his stub (tail) and looking at us as if to say, “Okay, I used your damn stairs, now where’s my treat??”. 

Oh well…I’ll take it!!  Maybe I should just give up and go with Grasshopper’s suggestion of a “doggie slide”!