We made Thirteen a new ramp today. We had bought her a nice one, called Pet Step II, but she wouldn't use it. I guess it was too narrow. I had to half-steer, half-shove, half-carry her up it. Which became an ordeal as you can imagine.
So at our pet sitter's suggestion, we made her a new ramp. Very low tech, just a piece of chip board with astroturf stapled to it. It's much wider, so it fills the doorway, and also longer, so the slope is less steep. And to my utmost relief, Thirteen finds the new ramp much more agreeable. She walked right down it without hesitation. Up is still a bit confusing: she tries to go around it, and ends up trapped underneath. Sigh. Not the sharpest tack in the box, my girl. But when I pulled her out from under the ramp and put her on the base of it, she walked right up, no steering or forcing required. What a relief.
Jane isn't so sure about the ramp though. She's tall enough to jump up kind of around it, so she only has to step on it once at most. Going down she tends to run as fast as she can, which causes the ramp to bounce hard and make a banging noise, which scares her & turns into one of those vicious things. It is bouncier than the other ramp, though we nailed a strip of wood to the underside to try and reduce the bounce. I'll add rails to stabilize it after I get back from Staten Island.
I tried to get a photo of Thirteen going up the ramp, but I had to put down my camera and rescue her from being trapped underneath. Maybe this evening.
In other news, I finished burning and labeling all my CDs for the Christmas show this afternoon. I think it's going to be a fun show. It looks like I could do the whole two hours without playing anything I've ever played before. But I have to play at least 2 previously played tracks: I have a request for "Jingle Bell Cha-cha" by Pearl Bailey, and I always close the show with "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" by Judy Garland. I may start ten minutes early, because Ayda (the DJ before Divaville) ran late one of the last times I did the show, and she offered to let me start early this time. I'm not going to push it though; only if she remembers.
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