How can I stop my dog getting upstairs

[Shithole101]

I have a tall dog gate up the top of my stairs . But my German shepherd can get it open . I tried making it tighter . I even used lots of cable ties. Which she snapped and now she's broken the fixing that go onto the wall for the gate.. any ideas 💡

🤣 in the shed sadly I don't have a car 😅

What’s the problem with going upstairs, anyway? (Well, except for dog hair on the stair carpet…). Our last dog was always allowed upstairs, and we were in a single storey with the former - and he always slept on the floor by my side of the bed. 😍

we had this with a rescue lab we had, could open and scale anything, we started putting the hoover (the soul sucking merchant of death, according to him even when it wasn’t plugged in) behind the gate to give us some breathing room to work on the training, as he kept about a million miles away from the hoover, anything like that, that she’s perhaps not a fan of? And then combined that with making the downstairs very interesting, frozen filled kong, a new toy when we left type thing and started building up the time from 5 minutes onwards with lots of rewards and praise for not scaling the gate like he was in great escape and not literally eating the upstairs wall type thing!

Pastoral breeds are the best - but god help us all if they ever develop opposable thumbs

So you walk your dog twice a day and your kids also take her out but the furthest your kids have been all half term is also the shop with your teen daughter?

Why did I feel like your trying to catch me out🤔

When i do the shorter walks the kids are still asleep or don't want to come. They are 8/9/14.

The longer walk teen ds normally does he's 17.

Not trying to catch you out just astounded that you take your dog out so often but not your kids.

You know what when someone is on a downer or low etc etc. Things change patterns change. Or done differently I also have kids with special needs and maybe I Need that 20 mins on my own . Maybe there's a reason the kids don't always come with me on the dog walk .

Not at all the point I was making but ok. Still no idea why you continue to post when you never ever take any advice that anyone offers you.

I can post when I want to thank you. And the comment you don't take people's advice is just stupid ... what you mean is I don't take advice that (you) think I should take . I asked how I could stop the dog getting up the stairs someone said about fixing wood that can slot in and out . I said I will be doing that.

If me posting is having am effectbon you then maybe don't read my posts

Have you tried this?

https://companyofanimals.com/uk/brand-product/pet-corrector-spray/?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=TGM&utm_campaign=TGM_PMAX&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAABhPxK3x5Mio2Di_qJnl3rtc98KsJ&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI1Mayz9C9iQMVxJJQBh2g5h_6EAAYASAAEgLb0fD_BwE

we used it with our dog to stop him going upstairs (and to give the cat her safe space).

Please don't suggest aversive training techniques they're so outdated, would you like sprayed in the face ?

I think the trick is the mechanism of the baby gate

We have one that you need to slide a catch lever on top of the gate and pull up the whole gate out of another catch at the bottom

There is no way dog could to it

It's the baby Dan tall baby gate.