Learning Stairs [3.03]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.พ. 2019
- We teach two new retirees, Lilly and Breeze, how to climb stairs as greyhounds generally do not encounter them during their racing careers. Many adoption organizations will teach this skill before the greyhound is placed in a home.
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our dog shot up the stairs the first time and ended up straining his left leg. I had him practice on smaller stairs. sometimes he does it sometimes he just freezes. H learned how to do it himself when he was left alone downstairs to sleep. Now he is confident with climbing up and down the stairs.
I keep coming back to this video. Lilly's eyes are just captivating.
She was such a treat to have around as a foster, but she was really hard on the dog toys. We had to do sew a few back together, LOL!
@@GreytShow My guy was the exact opposite. Had the same stuffies for years. But because he rarely chewed anything, that led to some dental challenges. Maybe dental care is an idea for a future video. I learned the hard way. Really enjoy your videos.
I’ve adopted retired racers for 22 years. Two of our boys were broken hock boys who were also 85+ big boys. My Atticus hops going up stairs at full speed but has finally decided to take a slower approach to going down the stairs. A few months after we adopted him, Atticus had a accident on the stairs after doing well with them for over a month. He slipped going up and his back foot missed the placement and slid between the steps and sustained a terrible scape all along the side and top of his hock. It was very upsetting for me as I thought he had mastered the stairs beforehand. It healed but the scarred area remains permanent bald. It’s good to remind adopting families that stairs need to be taught to newly retired racers! I live your videos!
I've had 4 retired greyhounds, all knew the stairs, but had a 1 year old greyhound that didn't do well racing so got rehomed, I needed to teach him stairs. I am now on my third Doberman, the previous two just took to stairs without a thought. My new 4 and a half month old doby had his first lesson on stairs today, and to my surprise was really scared and couldn't do it. So in searching TH-cam found this, crazy that a retired greyhound is more confident than my new doby ( think they sold me a 25kg mouse instead). Keep up the good work, some retired greyhounds can make great pets 👍
I searched the internet looking for help with my dog's fear of climbing stairs and this method worked for us. My 7-month-old Labrador was socialized with the stairs, he was doing well, but the more he grew, the more stress he felt in front of the stairs (we use the elevator every day, but we also trained the stairs from time to time for socialization purposes). We started training using this method today morning, and on the beginning the dog was so afraid, he did not even come near the stairs, he drank, drooled, barked, squealed, ran away and much more. At the end of the day, he would freely walk in and controlled, with the assistance he walks down the stairs. thanks a lot! other methods tested only increased anxiety
I'm glad you found this helpful, thanks for watching!
I think this is one of the most adorable things I've ever seen, I'm gonna adopt a greyhound, I hope I have to teach him / her stairs!!!
We live on a second floor apartment. Our grey does great going down, up is scary and she goes about 75% on her own then just stops. Her name is Olive btw. lol
Usually it's the down part that is scary and hard to control. That is my Olive's issue anyway.
Me whose family only like big fluffy dogs like German Shepherds, and plans to have my best cat until he dies: yes yes, very useful information, I will have to remember that for when the time comes.
Those dogs are svelte af. My husky is having a hard time with stairs but she's getting there. She went up a small flight twice today. I am the proud pop pop.
For smooth, non-carpeted stairs, which ours are linoleum stairs that lead into our upper apartment, we actually got some plastic textured step tread adhesive from Amazon. It worked wonders with our boy's confidence learning to go up and down them! And they're easily removable for when we move out.
It also helped our boy to control himself going down the steps to keep a short leash on him or hold his collar. Otherwise he'd try to barrel down, but our stairs also curve so he'd hit a wall if he just went flying. But we had to do this exact training and by the end of the first day he was a master at the stairs. They learn quick!
That is a great idea about the adhesive tread. He have some narrow carpet mats that have rubber on the back for the few steps between out kitchen and living room for that very similar reason.
I also hold the collar of our senior to slow her down as she keeps falling down our deck steps.
We are adopting here in Australia on Saturday, 2 are being bought to us to meet and 1 to choose from.. sooooo excited!
How did it go?
ThePunter29 we now have Meri she was the one who was suggested of the two. She is adorable and yes had NO EXPERIENCE ON STAIRS EITHER...LOL. We have a much longer flight of stairs inside with a turn after the first 5 . We went along with the first 6 weeks staying down stairs but she really was wanting to come up....so thanks to this video by the Greyt Show here.... we’d like to say Thankyou to him for the technique on the leg handling at each step. She is gaining confidence each day, (because we have no exposed stair rise and only the tread) ....Thankyou :) you can follow our Greyhound if you wish on Instagram miss.meri.greyhound.
Yup. Guide their legs as though they are walking by themselves all the way up and praise. Hold the collar on the way down, using the gently the same way. It won't take too long after that they know how to do it and it just takes practice. Once they learn stairs: watch out!
Patient kind teacher. Bless you buddy! You have a good 💜
Thank you, getting frustrated with them will only make them freeze up so I have to keep calm when working with them if i want to have positive results.
My foster greyhound does the bunny hop down the stairs aswell!
It is very cute to see them do stairs that way!
What a great channel! I moved into a second-floor apartment back in 2012 with two greys. That is exactly how I taught them stairs (with an assistant!). They had more issues as the stairs were the see-through kind. Down went a bit better. However, as one of my boys aged, he started having issues on the stairs. After the first significant instance, we moved into a ground floor apartment.
Oh yeah, I can definitely see how stairs that are open in the back would be scary.
We are now noticing our senior is having more difficulty with stairs too, as you will see in the April 1st video.
I have fostered many greys and the thing I've found is to leash them and go up the stairs with them behind you, slowly but steady. Same with going down stairs, be in front and while their leashed, gently go down. Your arm should be holding leash behind you while going up or down.. For them, looking up or down the stairs can be overwhelming so I don't let them look. After a few times, they Get it. How quickly they learn. Carpet or tred on stairs helps. It always worked for me. A Greyt breed :)
Omg this channel is so amazing! I wish I had found you before adopting. Thank you!
Thank you for watching, got lots of interesting things planned coming up!
Hey Brian, Thanks to your technique, we got Edgar up 13 stairs today! Soon, he'll be able to go anywhere in the house. (Heaven help us.)
I'm glad that the video helped you see how to work with him on the stairs. Keep me informed of how he's doing!
I'm teaching my greyhound puppy to shake hands. He is pretty good at stairs already at 3 months. I can't wait until he goes up into a beautiful adult boy.
Just adopted a greyhound today! And of course we have stairs and didn't realized that Chief didn't know how to do up and down them. This video is great and I'll be doing this every day until he gets it. Thanks!!!
Congratulations on getting a greyhound! You are going to have so much fun! Thank you for watching.
Greyt Show Took all of four tries going up. Going down is another story.... Now I'm going to search for your videos on training him on a leash!
You have a very kind heart, love how kind and patiently you treat your dogs! What's your opinion about dog racing? I only heard scary stories...
There are special interest groups out there that spread scary stories. We have track here in Iowa that once a year will allow a public tour of there track and kennel compound. If you have anything like that near you I would recommend checking it out so that you can see for your self the environment the greys live in during their racing careers.
Awesome video!!
Hi Brain, the technique of getting a Greyhound to climb the stairs will come in very useful when I eventually get my own Greyhound should the need arise.
Thanks again and will look forward to your next video.
I'm glad this has been helpful, thank you for watching!
Also, bribing with pieces of kibble works, too!
Wooden floors can be a big issue with them. If 6iu do have wooden floors I would out rugs and mats down where they are kept.
Loved this!!! Thank you! Subscribed!
What is your greyhound is sensitive to someone touching there legs and paws?
I used this method to show our girl how to do the stairs. She took right to them. I found that the twelve inch treads was kinda short for her long body. So I built new steps with eighteen inch treads. They are much better suited for her length.
18 inch treads would have been real good for our senior who found these normal stairs to be too much and fell down them a lot.
When we got our grayhound in February we had to carry her but the she quickly learned from our other dog. Without him she probably wouldn't be as comfortable with things as she is now
Many times learning by observation is how they figure things out. They live with their litter mates for a long time while in racing school so that they can learn social skills from each other.
I just came across your channel. We have two greyhounds and foster greyhounds as well.
Thanks for checking out the show! Sounds like your house is packed like mine!
That's what I'm like climbing stairs after the pub lol, I owned a greyhound here in England in the mid 1990s, she ran at Hackney in London and other tracks in competitions, she won me about £4k, unfortunately she got injuries and her racing career was cut short, she was a sandy colour, fawn as some might call it. Great upload.
Thanks for watching! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
They are so elegant
The first time my greyhound Kirk ever saw stairs was when we were finishing up a greyhound walking meet up. To get back to the cars we had to go down a couple of stairs to get to the parking lot. We were in the middle of the pack too so Kirk paused while a couple dogs when past him and then he went for it. He was hilarious and so clumsy and he nearly fell. But he went for it and got much better after the third time. Fact is once they get going theres no stopping them.
Oh yeah, observation works great, and gravity will do the rest!
Haha, great job!💜
Thanks!
Im possibly about to own a greyhound. Who indeed, is a retired racer who doesn't know how to use stairs. This vid helps loads. Thank you! :D
No one showed us this, they only told us what to do it and it was clumsy. I'm glad my video showing it was helpful for you and your pup!
I have had my dog for 5 years and she still struggles with stairs. She is so fearful but we’re still working on it!
I had one grey who never did figure it out. I had another one who did better, once we placed some small rugs (stair treads) on our hardwood stairs. My son trained our current dog by placing a treat on each stair. I said "That'll never work, " but it did, and quickly, too.
Greyhound Homecare Thank you for the tips! I appreciate it ☺️
Do your stairs have carpeting or hard surface? Are spaces visible between each step?
Hi Brain, we used a two step approach step up platform step down. That is the proper way to handling the dogs legs. good job!
Thank you!
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If you ever have a question let me know
Love Olive's jacket, and would love to get on form my greyhound Max. Would you have a website link you could share?
Yeah, we got the coats for our greys from chillydogs.ca and they are really good quality!
We just got our newly adopted grey to master one flight of stairs, but she slipped going down another and now she's petrified of that flight in particular and refuses to get near it
How is she getting on?
@@bokane1963 She was still scared for a week or two after that, but then she had some sort of breakthrough and wouldn't stop going up and down all of the stairs in our house to explore
I'm so happy to hear that! I just got my rescue today. He went up (although stubborn) but now I cannot get him down! 😅
@@bokane1963 I wouldn't worry about it too much, if you just got him today then he's going to need some time to adjust to living in a house. You might have to help him down the stairs in the meantime, but give it a few weeks and hopefully he'll be a natural at it. Congrats on your new greyhound!
Thank you! He is already making great progress. He had a broken leg he had just recovered from before I got hit so I can understand why he is extremely cautious
I just adopted an ex racing grey. Didn’t even realize that this was an issue. Everyone in my apartment complex just stares at me because it takes ages to get her up the stairs
We had to do the same with our borzoi when we moved house and it had stairs. Now he runs up and down the stairs.
Yeah, they can generally pick it up pretty fast (if they aren't spending the whole time trying to shake hands)
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Can you do a video on house training? Our new grey foster learned the stairs quickly but is still peeing in the house when we aren’t watching even though she get 4 walks a day.
Sorry I did not see this comment until 5 months later. When we get our fosters in they always know not to go in the house so we haven't had to do any house training. Might recommend speaking with your vet, perhaps there is a urinary tract infection that might be causing the frequent peeing?
Makes me miss my hound ...... left him to go on holiday and came back and the wife was like where is he little did we know my father had got him to master the dreaded stairs when we where sunning ourselves and he was upstairs in the master bedroom on the bed very funny at the time mind you the wife wasn’t to impressed!!!
Once they figure out how to jump up on the bed you are no longer master of the house!
What if my stairs at home has a 30 cm gap between each step which is possible to fall between?
I spent a good month teaching my greyhound to do the flight of stairs outside my apartment because the stairs are cement slabs with no back and thus very scary! I found that cheese is a great motivator for more hesitant greys; just put a piece every couple of steps and they’ll work their way up. I’ve also found that some of my fosters appreciate a reassuring hand on their butt after they’ve gotten the basics of stairs; they tend to go up them faster than they would on their own.
I like your treat idea, makes the stairs far more motivating rather than daunting.
That's how I taught my greyhound the stairs. Sharp cheddar. I sat on the steps with the cheese, then kept going up one step at a time. It took some coaxing, but he got it.
Greyt Show I spent a good month carrying individually wrapped string cheese sticks with me whenever we went on a walk! The cheese is easy to break into pieces and not too fatty.
How can I teach mine from running up? Our stairs are steeper and the steps are not very wide. He freaks out if I try to hold him back.
I have a 7 year old husky named Aries who runs like a cheetah, kills squirrels, will beg for all food even if he has had it and not liked it before, and loves car rides, and eats bubbles. But he won't go up the stairs. I'm just a kid not an expert, but he's scared to go downstairs and he won't go upstairs with all 4 legs at the same time. If I touch his legs he will shriek, kick me, whine, and cry. What do I do?
My dog is very energetic and crazy he is not like them he is not quite so what should i do whenever i try to make him climb stairs he always ran away
I’ll be bringing home a grey soon who recently broke her leg. Any suggestions for teaching her the stairs? Any different things to do?
I do not have experience teaching a grey with a broken leg how to do stairs so instead I will have to refer you to your adoption ground for ideas on what to do.
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J'habite au septième étage, la première fois qu'on est sortis j'ai pris les escaliers pour descendre avec mon lévrier dans la rue. Il s'est arrêté net devant la première marche, j'ai tiré net avec décision mais sans violence sur la laisse... il n'a plus hésité (je ne lui ais pas donné le choix non plus) dès la cinquième marche , on a descendu les sept étages en deux minutes. Je ne lui ai pas transmis ni peur ni tension, il m'a fait confiance et depuis ce jour les escaliers ne lui posent pas le moindre problème, ni pour monter ni pour descendre. J'avoue qu'on préfère l'ascenseur.
Je pense que des fois à trop matérnaliser son chien on lui transmet des phobies qui ne sont que dans nos têtes et qui ne prennent que deux secondes à être soignées. Je veux bien croire que certains lévriers sont traumatisés, tout comme l'était le mien, et que certains sont des cas d'école, mais souvent il vaut mieux leur transmettre de la confiance et de l'assurance plutôt que de la compassion et de la peine.
Belle vidéo et beau canal.
Salutations depuis la Suisse.
Hey Brian, any tips for greys that just jump up the stairs, like Lily did in the final seconds? We've had our grey for 6 months, and in the beginning I tried teaching him, but decided to lay off until he was settled in, as it wasn't essential to our home. He's gotten into the habit of just taking all 6 of the porch stairs at once. While that's fine for now, I'm thinking about when he's older and can't jump like that, so eventually he'll need to know how to do them one by one. I want to avoid an Olive situation in the future as well.
Hey....Greyhounds eye sight is different than most dogs. They don't see stationary items very well, and my vet says they are far sighted. They cant see close. That's why they have problems with stairs. They back away from a small set of 3 stairs and then charge.
@@sharpsharp5555 Okay....so...tips?
CrampedStyle I saw another video where the greyhound learned to go up the stairs backwards. Lol.
Other than that, I don’t know what to do. I had a greyhound that could never do stairs. I had to carry her to the basement when there was a tornado warning. Lol.
Most of them cannot catch food if you hold food above their head and drop it to them either. They are soooo sweet though
CrampedStyle We had two steps coming into the sliding glass door. She would back away and then charge and jump into the house
I would recommend doing what we have done with Olive and hang on to the collar while guiding the grey up and down the stairs. With Olive it was to avoid her from falling down them, but in your case it would be to force the grey to take each step and get used to them. Not sure how long you would need to do this for the grey to start using them normally, but I think you and I both agree it would be best to get the dog doing them the right way in case one day he is not able to jump them anymore.
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Hey....Greyhounds eye sight is different than most dogs. They don't see stationary items very well, and my vet says they are far sighted. They cant see close. That's why they have problems with stairs. They back away from a small set of 3 stairs and then charge.
I had not heard that, but there are many times I have noticed that our greys have not seen a rabbit or squirrel in the yard as it was hardly moving at the time. Your comment makes me think of how the T-Rex in Jurassic Park can't see prey unless it is moving!
Could be some truth in that. My bloke can walk right over a dead bird or miss a cat two metres away because he is always looking out for something half a mile yonder.
My new greyhound that me and my family adopted doesn't like sleeping by himself and can't do stairs when we go rhim home he went up and down but now refuses he just needs abit of help his front legs go on but he to nervous to put his back legs on
Usually I have had to lift their legs one step at a time. In this video these two dogs learned the stairs quickly but sometimes it can take many days for them to learn it. You may have to continue to assist.
They are so cute.
Maybe a lure pulled up the stairs would get quicker stair climbing skills?🤣
Lol, that isn't such a ridiculous idea though as there are a few who just won't do it and that might entice them!
Rather than a lure, just use dog kibble!
I wonder... Will they learn from just watching and interacting with other dogs?
Sometimes they figure it out from imitating but it tends to go much faster if we just walk them thru it.
Just got owned by my new grey Freyja my previous owner (I have no illusions) Grace was 6 and had never seen stairs but just took them in her stride, probably because she just desperately wanted to follow me. Freyja goes downstairs like a charm. Tried these methods, no joy. Anyone have suggestions please
Unfortunately every idea I have was put into this video, hopefully someone else in the comments will have another idea.
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My dog will just try and bite me if grab the back legs what can I do?
We are currently working with a foster who hates having his legs touched. It has not been easy. Since it has been so muddy outside with it going into winter we have to be able to clean his feet so we have worked on very positively encouraging him while we slowly work our way down his leg with our hand. If he lets us touch his feet then we really reward him with petting him when we are done with that foot and then start over on the next. Not saying it is a solution, but we are having less freak outs. Still have a ways to go. Hope this helps.
It's great what you are trying to with the grey hounds but I can see their ribs. Are they supposed to be that thin?
A greyhounds ribs will still show at most any weight except for dangerously obese. Deep chested dogs do not put body fat on the sides too much so you generally can see the bones, it is just that other deep chested dogs tend to have longer fur to hide it. I made a video last year about the appropriate weight for a greyhound if you are interested:
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I just take hold of the martingale and walk them up and down beside me without giving them a chance to even think about the stairs. My two greyhounds and galgo were just less stressed/nervous about it when I didn't make a big deal out of them and just went about it normally. Thank you for making videos about the best dogs in the world :)
We have done that method as well and found that they would kind of just jump over the steps to avoid them, which is why we focus on each step now. Which ever way works is good enough for me to get them in and out of the house!
All skin and bones.
My greyhound still gets scared going downstairs :(
Going down is a lot more scary than going up. We usually have to practice it a few times as they will try to jump it to avoid it.
I lobe that I’m watching this my Grey isn’t allowed upstairs
Does your grey go upstairs anyway when you aren't looking?
Sir, have you thought of using an inclined plane on the stairs themselves?
For the stairs as they are, an inclined plane would be at nearly a 45 degree angle, which I think would be rather steep. I would mostly likely want to build a ramp out at least twice the distance of the stairs to make it usuable for my senior, for example.
Wish I had shown my 9.5 year old grey how to get up stairs when he was younger because now he can’t get up 😖
My senior, Olive, was that same age when we adopted her. An old dog can still learn but definitely take extra care since. Olive really started noticeably trying to avoid the stairs after she turned 12, not sure if it was her hips or if she just didnt have the energy.
Greyt Show I think it’s because of his injury he did to his back leg when he was racing which is making him feel unsafe while around stairs but I will definitely give everything in this video a try 🙃x
Hope it works out!
Don't do it! I takes 2 seconds to learn once you show them. They can get up the typical 13 stair set in, well, about a second. Not enough for you to wake up (WAKE UP!!!) and prepare for 50kg+ and 8 paws, 2 wet nozzles and a full frontal doggy paw massage.
If you suffer from sleeping over or conversely insomnia, full on 'hello' by two crazy greyhounds will definitely snap you out of it. Yelling at them makes it worse. Kissy kissy, makes it worse. You have been warned!
Holidays where the dog sleep at the bed of the bed involve opening one eye to see the time and being greeted by (yes you guessed it) 2 wet nozzles and a full on paw massage. If you are awake (eye open = awake for greyhounds) then it's time to get UP! UP! UP! UP! Noooooooo!
Edit, when they jump on you, if you are male, then it will hurt and they will hit that spot more times than is a mathematical coincidence. P.S if you get up and then try to creep back, there will be 25kg of lively animal waiting to shove you out again :-) That is whilst the first one plays 'good dog' by backing back out of the way. Then it's dual paws massage when 'bad dog' calls the other one back in to make sure you are not going back to bed.
8 hours of outdoor activity followed by 3 hours of brain exercise in the pub or other human congregations sorts them out. The paw massage slips back to 8am or after if they are completely worn out mentally. Dog shows with a million things going off at once completely exhausts them. More than a good run. Anything where the brain cells have to be used burns calories and greyhound enthusiasm. 23.5 hours sleep recovery after an outside dog show is about right :-)
I call bullshit. My joe lived to be 13 and we tried all the time to get him up the stairs. Everything. He just never wanted to. Years of trying and never did it
Whole Video: "We're going to show lilly how to climb stairs."
Lilly: 1:02 "Bro, I know how to climb stairs..."
Also Lilly: 1:40 "Yeah...stairs aren't really my thing yo"
Don't you see ıts ears are back. This dog is unhappyy. You were lucky because it did not beat you
Interesting thing about greyhounds is that their ears are usually always back to make them more aerodynamic. To determine a greyhounds stress level it is a better indicator to see if their tail is between their legs. During this lesson on stairs, the tail most likely was there so that is why I have them in muzzles in case they panic.