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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  Okay, I'm no big PETA fan at all but I saw this headline on Google News and wanted to share it. It's a good read which emphasizes that "walkies" is for more than just toilet duty time for your dog, that in fact, in your dog's interests, it needs to be time for your dear baby to enjoy the big, exciting outside world, a place well outside his/her usual boundaries, allowed ample time to sniff and take in all the wondrous odors left by other critters and humans. Walkies was always like a mini-vacation for Tibbe - he came back from one revitalized and renewed. He was allowed the time to sniff, pee, poo, sniff, explore, dawdle, sniff some more, muse over his findings half way through the walk and and run, exercise the last part of the walk on the way back home and sniff his way through the front door. He always acted like he'd just gotten back from vacay after a good, long walkies session! He did, indeed, act like he'd just gotten back from an eye-opening excursion to some fascinating locale.
Can't believe PETA seems to allow that we now have a right to have a dog living under our roofs! I'd heard that they had denied pet ownership as a right of those who keep them as pets! Don't know if that's true as I've never spent any time on their website but whatever the case, agree that dogs need time to enjoy and take in the great outdoors every chance we can give them - it's their natural element. https://people.com/pets/you-may-be-w...eta-president/ |
So many people who have small dogs don't think they need walking. I have always walked my yorkies every single day weather permitting. Duchess loves being outside and I love seeing her happy. An added bonus of walking them every day is they learn how to find their way home. Because we walked every single day, my yorkies knew every inch of the neighborhood.
I let Duchess guide me back home by letting her lead and no matter where we are in the neighborhood, she knows how to get back home. Brandi (RIP) actually did get out without me knowing it but because she knew the neighborhood, she was able to find her way back home. After searching the neighborhood for her, when I got back home, she was sitting at the front door. It was at that moment I knew that regular walking of dogs in their neighborhood could potentially save their lives.