Climbing stairs will cause the dog’s lumbar spine to age faster

Generally, the depth of stairs in apartments is between 25 and 28 centimeters, and the height is usually more than 20 centimeters. Such height and depth design , is only barely suitable for human use. For dogs, the plane depth should be 60 centimeters and the height difference should be within 12 to 15 centimeters. Only such a staircase design is more suitable for dogs to go up and down.

Although dogs can go up and down stairs on their own, which is a very labor-saving thing for their owners, dogs that climb stairs every day and for a long time will suffer injuries to their lumbar spine or limb joints as early as four years old, and by six to eight years old Between ages, functional impairments are likely to occur.

Shallow stairs make dogs’ lumbar vertebrae susceptible to injury

Dog owners should pay close attention to their dogs’ movements on the stairs. Generally speaking, because the stairs are too shallow, the dog's limbs and feet cannot fall on the same level of stairs, so when the dog climbs the stairs, almost every step must end with an arch on the back and waist, so that his two The pads of the back feet can be extended forward to the abdomen. The front of both of his front legs and the pads of his feet fell in, but his buttocks were still in the back. Under the level of the foot pads, usually the dog will struggle with the pads of the two hind limbs so that the body is upward at this time, and climb up the stairs with the pads of the two forelimbs, thus completing eight consecutive steps between floors.

The pressure on the lumbar vertebrae of dogs when going up and down stairs is huge

Although the dog’s movement lines are excellent and not inferior to top athletes, owners who love their dogs should Considering the harm caused to dogs by going up and down stairs, long-term accumulation will put a great burden on the dog's lumbar spine and limb joints. In particular, the stairs from the first floor to the third floor of some apartments go straight up and down without turning. The stairs have to be 32 steps in a row without rest in between. Young dogs, under the encouragement and cheers of their owners, will rush straight to the top in one breath, but they don’t know that this will cause more serious harm to the dog.

In clinical practice for more than 20 years, it is common for owners to seek medical advice when their dogs suffer from bone spurs in their lumbar vertebrae or severe arthritis in their hind limbs. They suddenly realize that they used to use the number of times they go up and down the stairs to increase their dog’s calorie consumption, but they did not expect to let their dog spend more time. Going up and down stairs several times will become the initial cause of dysfunction of limb joints and lumbar joints in older dogs.