This thread has me thinking. Cubbe doesn't like being picked up, but
we're capable of lifting her when we need to. She's only 50 pounds;
most of that is squirm. She readily hops in her crate for car rides.
There's no other time she has to get up on something.


As the temperature drops, she climbs on the couch, but that's an easy
climb, and she likes sunny spots on the floor just as well. I'm sure a
nice cushion on the floor would suit her as well as the couch if it came
to that.


She doesn't sleep on the bed; she sleeps under it. That's both of our
preference. To get under the bed (futon pull-out couch), she has to
scrunch down and turn around while scrunched. I don't know how she does
it, but always has and has never minded. If Cubbe got arthritic and
elderly, we wouldn't be building her ramps on to the bed; we'd be
inventing methods to get her under the bed, and I'm not sure how that
would work. Curl her up and slide her under using a mechanism with wheels?


--Lia

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Julia Altshuler wrote:

If Cubbe got arthritic and
elderly, we wouldn't be building her ramps on to the bed; we'd be
inventing methods to get her under the bed, and I'm not sure how that
would work. Curl her up and slide her under using a mechanism with wheels?

let me know. we may reach that w/lucy.

--
Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

On Sep 24, 8:32 pm, Julia Altshuler wrote:
This thread has me thinking. Cubbe doesn't like being picked up, but
we're capable of lifting her when we need to. She's only 50 pounds;
most of that is squirm. She readily hops in her crate for car rides.
There's no other time she has to get up on something.

As the temperature drops, she climbs on the couch, but that's an easy
climb, and she likes sunny spots on the floor just as well. I'm sure a
nice cushion on the floor would suit her as well as the couch if it came
to that.

She doesn't sleep on the bed; she sleeps under it. That's both of our
preference. To get under the bed (futon pull-out couch), she has to
scrunch down and turn around while scrunched. I don't know how she does
it, but always has and has never minded. If Cubbe got arthritic and
elderly, we wouldn't be building her ramps on to the bed; we'd be
inventing methods to get her under the bed, and I'm not sure how that
would work. Curl her up and slide her under using a mechanism with wheels?

--Lia

Get one of the wheeled mechanics creepers that is padded than raise
your bed a few inches. She lays on the creeper and you slide it under
the bed. Everyones happy. You may have to raise the bed up on blocks
if the added height from the creeper makes her too big to fit though.

Nick