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My parent's neurotic dog has a new foible. You all remember Max right? I wrote about him here http://etakyma.livejournal.com/117116.html - where I discussed his habit of doing a crazy Ivan to enter rooms. He still does this - and sometimes at great speeds.
He has never liked stairs. He doesn't quite know what to do with them. And he has trouble coordinating front legs and back legs to actually climb them. So he has never been in the upstairs part of my folk's house. Which is fine. But to get into the house there are a t least two steps up. In the case of the back deck there are five wide shallow steps from the grass to the deck. Please note - Max has no trouble scrambling up these steps when they are covered in ice and snow.
Today I witnessed him going up the stairs from yard to deck backwards. As if he feels that if he doesn't actually watch he can climb stairs.
I don't know. This dog is strange. I don't think I've seen another dog that has figured out if he turns around and does something backwards it works better for him and he can actually do whatever it is (enter a room, climb stairs). Doesn't it seem to you that doing something backwards would not make anything easier?
He's a very sweet dog. Just strange.
He has never liked stairs. He doesn't quite know what to do with them. And he has trouble coordinating front legs and back legs to actually climb them. So he has never been in the upstairs part of my folk's house. Which is fine. But to get into the house there are a t least two steps up. In the case of the back deck there are five wide shallow steps from the grass to the deck. Please note - Max has no trouble scrambling up these steps when they are covered in ice and snow.
Today I witnessed him going up the stairs from yard to deck backwards. As if he feels that if he doesn't actually watch he can climb stairs.
I don't know. This dog is strange. I don't think I've seen another dog that has figured out if he turns around and does something backwards it works better for him and he can actually do whatever it is (enter a room, climb stairs). Doesn't it seem to you that doing something backwards would not make anything easier?
He's a very sweet dog. Just strange.
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