Do You Carry Your Pets Up The Stairs

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Ok, we have discussed having stairs in your home and most of us have at least a few steps in our home if not more, as we get older we realize stairs become a struggle But what about for our beloved and pampered animals? They get old too, and quicker than us, do you think about the struggle they may have when climbing the stairs, after all animals get arthritus and through old age find that they are not as quick or as able to climb the stairs. A lot of pets I am sure actually sleep in the same bedroom as their owners, or they will sleep upstairs, our cat does she gets right into bed with my parents and when I lived with my ex we had four cats some of them would like to go upstairs to bed. So if they have trouble getting up the stairs or they are old, do you carry them? Do they look at you as if to say 'Well what are you waiting for? I want to go to bed and you'll have to carry me' Or do you think your animals still have dignity and will struggle up the stairs and don't appreciate being picked up and taken up stairs by their owners What about getting a stairlift for them? You know one of those Stannah stairlifts which are easily operated that the pet could jump on and it takes them up the stairs, so much easier especially if you are old and struggle up the stairs yourself and cannot manage to carry them, especially if it's a great dane or an alsatian for example Or do you think some mischievous pets would use and abuse the stairlift by going up and down all day? Cats like to be high up for example! But cats could fight to get onto it and thus break it. How do you think animals cope with the stairs when they get old? Same as humans? Do you think they need extra help to get up the stairs by being carried or do you let them struggle alone?