I knew things were going too smoothly
Yesterday I inadvertently let the dogs upstairs. I didn't intend to let Sherry upstairs so soon but I came home with loads of bags of shopping that needed to go upstairs so my hands were full. I have a baby gate across the bottom of the stairs and I left it open without thinking. I sometimes let Rosa upstairs while I'm on the puter so didn't really think it would be a problem letting Sherry up too.
I have two gerbils (rodents) that live in the spare room in a cage. Sherry went balistic at them and started clawing at the cage trying to get them out. Rosa stares at them but has never attempted to get them out.
I made both dogs go back downstairs thinking that would be the end of it and went back upstairs. 2 minutes later Sherry joined me
She had managed to climb over the bannisters by climbing on the back of the sofa then clawing her way up somehow. They are really high and I'm amazed that she managed it without hurting herself.
Since then I've been observing her and she is obsessed with getting upstairs and has tried many more times to climb over the bannisters, without success, but if she done it once I'm sure she can do it again.
I've had to rearrange the furniture so the sofa is no longer up against the bannisters which is fine but she has been frantic about getting up there ever since.
What do I do now? I moved the gerbils out of the room they were in and hid them. Then I let her upstairs to try and fool her that they had gone but she wasn't fooled.
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Yesterday I inadvertently let the dogs upstairs. I didn't intend to let Sherry upstairs so soon but I came home with loads of bags of shopping that needed to go upstairs so my hands were full. I have a baby gate across the bottom of the stairs and I left it open without thinking. I sometimes let Rosa upstairs while I'm on the puter so didn't really think it would be a problem letting Sherry up too.
I have two gerbils (rodents) that live in the spare room in a cage. Sherry went balistic at them and started clawing at the cage trying to get them out. Rosa stares at them but has never attempted to get them out.
I made both dogs go back downstairs thinking that would be the end of it and went back upstairs. 2 minutes later Sherry joined me

She had managed to climb over the bannisters by climbing on the back of the sofa then clawing her way up somehow. They are really high and I'm amazed that she managed it without hurting herself.
Since then I've been observing her and she is obsessed with getting upstairs and has tried many more times to climb over the bannisters, without success, but if she done it once I'm sure she can do it again.
I've had to rearrange the furniture so the sofa is no longer up against the bannisters which is fine but she has been frantic about getting up there ever since.
What do I do now? I moved the gerbils out of the room they were in and hid them. Then I let her upstairs to try and fool her that they had gone but she wasn't fooled.
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