#puppy problems

It’s not cute. It’s not fun. She got into seed ticks. I want to burn everything. NOT just little ticks. Freakishly tiny ticks that attack in droves. I shaved her down with a 3mm but even if she was completely bald it wouldn’t have helped much. I used a lot of Wondercide before the hike so we didn’t really have any problems with the normal sized ticks but I didn’t spray her paws which is where I’m finding a lot of these monsters. My day/evening/night has been spent doing damage control. Hopefully her preventative will knockout them out before they get too far.

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Yesterday we had one success when she went up the stairs normally. Today no luck.

So far I’ve tried: Adding a mat to the bottom of the stairwell for traction. Rewarding any choice to interact with the stairs (we can get as far as one foot on the second set— she won’t take a step with her back legs at all.) Putting treats on each step. Letting her stand at the bottom of the steps while I do meal prep in the kitchen to see if she will choose to go up eventually. Nope.

I was hoping this was just a weird adolescent blip, but it doesn’t seem to be improving. She goes down the steps no problem. She goes UP the big staircase in the house no problem.

I can carry her up the steps but she HATES being carried— got a lot better about it when I minimized the amount I had to pick her up. Now that I’m having to do it regularly she’s tensing her entire body when I reach down to pick her up and showing new reluctance to even enter the door because she knows I will have to pick her up.