Dog Stairs

[myxpykalix]

I "inherited" my daughters 10 year old chihuahua who has neck problems so anytime she jumps off the bed or lazyboy she yelps and walks around in pain. I have to get her "painkillers" up at the vet but i said let me design a set of stairs that is 3 ft tall, 4 ft long and 1 ft wide with 4in rise on the stairs she can now walk up and down without pain.

[dmidkiff]

A worthy project.

[scottp55]

Good for you Jack:)
Need to make a cat ramp for my antique 4 poster pretty soon.
scott

[myxpykalix]

Good for you Jack:)
Need to make a cat ramp for my antique 4 poster pretty soon.
scott
It doubles as "catstairs" too.I got it in the backdoor and the cat had to try it out first.

[Burkhardt]

Fabulous idea! I hope you don't have to add a chihuahua-sized chair lift when the dog gets older....

[steve_g]

With a little thought, you could have made her an escalator…

[myxpykalix]

Fabulous idea! I hope you don't have to add a chihuahua-sized chair lift when the dog gets older....

Hey, don't laugh but my original thought was to make a large box "elevator" that she walked into and rode up and down but i couldn't figure out how to teach her to push the buttons for up and down! After all it's like they say..."you can't teach an old dog new tricks".