So Piper had her left foreleg amputation last Tuesday, so is almost a week post. She is doing amazingly well, and I'm so relieved. She came home with a HelpEmUp harness but really hasn't needed to use it the last few days. She came home Wednesday afternoon and conked out, she was so exhausted from the ordeal, but so relaxed to be home. Our veterinary clinic is downstairs from our house, so our dogs of course go to work with us every day. She fell asleep in the office for a few hours, and I had to go upstairs to get dinner ready. I had a monitor camera on her so I could watch when she woke up and I could walk her up the side of the house to go in the back door. Well I guess it didn't alert me for some reason and the next thing I know I look to my right and there is Piper having gone up the whole set of stairs by herself! (and it's kind of steep AND curves halfway through). So since then she has also snuck DOWN the stairs by herself! So my question is why is it bad to let her navigate the stairs now - is it because she might lose her balance and fall? She seems incredibly steady. I feel like that could happen a month from now, or 3 months from now too. She's eating great, doing her business outside, almost as if nothing ever happened. I do have to say, she seems a little depressed and maybe a little more distant, but from what I've read it can take a couple of weeks to get the "spark back". She is on meloxicam, gabapentin, codeine and amantadine (the surgeon didn't continue the amantadine, but I did - it's not doing any harm and may be helping).