My Dog Doesn't Go Up the Stairs... What Should I Do?

If she is barking at the bottom she is telling you she wants to come up, but does not have the confidence to do so. Just go to the top, get down on your hands and knees, and get really excited and continue to call and encourage her till she comes to you. Say Come on Gracie, come on, come on. Build her up, and get her excited to come. She will most likely start spinning and barking, and wagging her tail like crazy to tell you she wants to but is afraid. Just encourage her all the more. Help her work past the fear. Have a treat or toys ready to praise her with when she gets to you. This will, in your dogs mind, be a huge accomplishment, and you need to celebrate it. She will gain confidence from this.

1. HELP! My dog won't stop CHEWING EVERYTHING!?

give him lots of things he CAN chew on...swap out toys now and then so he does not get bored. Kongs are great. i fill them then even freeze them after putting soft food, mashed up chicken or whatever (my dog loves apples too) so they hold my dogs attention even longer. exercise will also help. properly exercised dogs are more tired and generally less destructive. there are many sprays on the market you can try. some are used to keep an animal completely out of an area, while others you spray on the items the dog tends to go after. further, for the dogs safety and your sanity, you should crate him w/ a toy or two when you cannot keep an eye on him.

2. (PDF) From Displays and Dioramas to Doll Dramas Adult World Building and World Playing with Toys

From Displays and Dioramas to Doll Dramas predisposition towa rd toys and actions with them in imagina tive and fantastic world play and ph ysical or manipula tive actions with toys in ph ysical world play . On the other hand, the world surro unding toys oen p rovides a physical pla y scape in which various plots can be carried out. For ad ult players with M y Little Pony , the desire to world play clearly manif ests in the collecting and customiza tion practices around the transmedially tied toy ob ject itself, but the adults we observed in our research who played with Blythe (see gure 1.), Barbie, and K en players expressed an in terest in more s ubversive practices focusing on c haracter A further dimension of adult world pla y in reference to to ys may be analysed through an inspection of its spatial na ture that asks ho w it relates to physical space, that is, whether it takes place within a disp lay or a diorama (in the intimacy of the living space), an urban or nat ural environmen t (the terrain of cult geography r elating to a known media text), a to urist site (in the name of toy tourism), or an an onymous, bu t public space. Consequently , the nature of adult world play m ay be explored through these parameter s ranging between fantastic and imagined terrains o f world building and the actual, ph ysical loca- tions (see gure 8), either anon ymous or cano nical, in which the world play temporarily resides and becomes documented in ph oto play or videograph y , but then withdraws. In som e cases, a single, episodic instance of photo pla y is all it takes to provide the play er(s) a reentry to a world that once exist ed in the physical realm, but now lies o nly in the image and the imagined. As G. K. Chesterton once wro te, "I t is an old story , and for some a sad o ne, that in a sense childish toys are mor e to us than they can ever be to children. W e never know how much o f our aer imaginations began wi th such a peepshow into from such allotelic dimensions o f toy play as crea tivity , productive pla y , and personal skill building (Heljakka 2015b). A t the same time, it can be viewed as a purely escapis t (autotelic) activi ty , following Chesterton 's idea of the w orld- playing "peepsho w in paradise, " with no goals other than the joys of playing with toys and other con temporary devices such as smartphon es or cameras that W e have explo red storytelling in relation to ima ginative, physical, an d

3. What is causing my dog s bad breath?

Since he's been allowed to chew up and swallow toys and now has really bad breath, its likely this dog has a blockage. Get him to the vet ASAP because if he does, he will need emergency surgery to save his life. That's what happens when people allow their dogs to swallow things that are dangerous!.