Mastiff Forum

I frequently visit the Mastiff Online Community web forum... it is an endless supply of super cute Mastiff pictures and valuable information...

I'm much more of a stalker and less of a contributor, but still love purusing the site...

This morning I read this great entry talking about trying to get 200lb dogs into a Tahoe :)

The rest of the thread is here: Ramps

"Next we tried a Twistep. I liked the concept of the Twistep being stored on the vehicle and swinging out of the way when not in use, but the dogs didn't do very well with that either. They would step up on it with their front feet fine, but then put their front into the vehicle without stepping up on the step with their back feet. The result would be that they were all stretched out with front in and back end still on the ground. We would have to manually pick up their back foot one at a time and place it on the step before they would climb on in. No easy task as you can imagine. Getting them out was even more dramatic. They would want to lay down and crawl up to the edge and then slide their front out onto the step and then stand up and jump out of the Tahoe without even hitting the step with their back feet. Kind of defeated the whole point of using the step. I thought over time they would figure it out, but they never did."

Ha!