Buddy is doing a whole lot better.

He's resigned himself to the fact that he has to use only the dog ramp to go
off the porch although he occasionally sneaks back up the outside stairs
when I'm not looking. We've gaited off the upstairs and make sure he stays
downstairs now to. He never was much of a dog to hang out upstairs with us
but he'd come up to get me when he had to go out. He's learned to instead
to whine at the bottom of the stairs if he has to go and occasionally he
will bark for me if I'm upstairs.

Celeste



"FurPaw" wrote in message
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Spot wrote:

I try to keep him from jumping and keep him off the stairs so we don't
aggravate it

By the time Chile had her back problems (age 14), she wasn't able to jump
up onto furniture and the bed, and we had created "steps" for her and
Gordo to use. They still leaped straight off onto the ground. (In
retrospect, that wasn't such a good idea. If they can't jump up that
high, they shouldn't be jumping down either.) So we removed the steps so
that they wouldn't be on furniture unsupervised. They still managed to
take a few flying leaps, but with no further injuries. Our house is one
story, so we didn't have to block off stairs. And we put ramps on the
steps outside.

but he still occasionally has some minor dragging of the one leg. The
best thing we did was to get some weight off him it really helps
tremendously.

It sounds like Buddy is doing much better.

FurPaw

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