i thought perhaps jumping on chairs and laps regularly might cause joint problems in smaller dogs? One of mine seems to get a random 'joint' pain for no good reason - recovers if left alone for a couple of hours.

He walked 5 miles the other day with no problems - so thought it could be jumping.

Thedogsmother .. look in the photo gallery at the pups thread, I've posted a couple of pics of my friends white gsds that you might like to take a peek at!


Bramble loves jumping, It's hard to get him to stop, his favourite is flying off the bed or sofa, or running down the stairs and taking a leap from the 5th step!

We were told not to allow our small dogs to jump on chairs etc untill they were at least a year old.

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Mine love jumping and as long as they're fully grown in some breeds you're talking nearly 3 years danes/wolfhound etc then theres no problems.