Wood Floors

[Sundog]

I'm a little worried about my puppy injuring herself on my wood floors. My Ridgeback slips and slides like Bambi on the ice, and I know that growing pups can be prone to injury. Should I be thinking about some kind of boots for her? Or is that silly? Also, what about stairs? I read on a mastiff blog somewhere that you shouldn't let a puppy climb more than 3 stairs in a row...we have two stories, and I'd hate to force her to stay downstairs for years. I want her to be able to sleep in our room, but I won't be able to carry her for long/

 

[Th0r]

I have hardwood and tiles downstairs. For the first couple of months, Thor used to wipe out in every corner but he got used to it and now has better traction control.

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[Jakesmum]

Make sure you keep her nails short. We have laminate throughout our house and he tends to slip more when his nails get to be too long. For the stairs we have never had a problem, just make sure you control her when she is going up or down (walk her up and down on a leash) so she doesn't run up and down them and get injured.

 

[musicdeb]

Might help to add some rugs that do not move in the doorways so she can have some traction. Control walking up and down stairs. Carry her up and down stairs until you cannot carry her any longer due to her weight. Are the stairs carpeted? If not, I would recommend adding something to the stairs or carry her as long as you can.

Avoid excessive running, jumping, jogging walking, navigating stairs until 12 months of age. You can exercise a pup 5 minutes for every month of age. Avoid high dog areas until she's had at least the 2nd round of shots but waiting until 3rd of shots is best.

 

[Cyndnelson]

We have laminate/lino throughout as well. We carried up the stairs until he was brave enough to try them on his own, then taught him not to barrel up and down by blocking his path. We also reserve play for the carpeted basement or the area rug in the living room with extra rubber backing underneath.

 

[TWW]

This I trim mouse's nail weekly and he has never had real issues, with them.

I have hardwood and tiles downstairs. For the first couple of months, Thor used to wipe out in every corner but he got used to it and now has better traction control.

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[DDSK]

Large area rugs or throw rugs work well for us.

 

[Slinger-girl]

When I have young puppies on the hardwoods but they are old old hardwoods (house built in 1875) so they can get some traction. I do also have several larger Persian rugs down and that helps too. I have on occasion throw down some rubber back bathmats I picked up at Goodwill and used those on the linoleum in the kitchen until they are older

 

[DennasMom]

Rugs, Rugs, Rugs.

We put rugs everywhere. They all have that non-slip spongey stuff underneath, too, so they.don't.move.
No way, no how do I want go slipping around the corner, let alone have my mastiff do the splits and hurt herself.
We also have rug treads on all the steps - with non-slip backing.
We carried Denna up and down the stairs until she could do them slowly herself without "thumping" hard down them - I think that was when she was about 4 months old.

 

[Kcmam]

We are lucky that the stairs leading into our basement make 3 turns, Keeva only has 4 stairs, landing, rinse and repeat. She is almost 19 weeks now and has the hang of it, if she is way excited I do block her to keep her from taking a tumble. Most of the house is carpeted but the kitchen and dining room are tile, it took maybe a week of leashing her slowly thru to each room and now she goes much slower and has no issues.