Do yall take your dogs for regular walks?

[P-Nut Mom]

My boys have tons of energy, so we tend to do two long-ish walks per day (early morning and evening), then I try to do a mini walk or two during the day depending on my workload.

[alaskayorkie]

At least once a day for 20-30 minutes, sometimes twice. I've found it greatly helps with behavior issues. One of mine has a tendency to be a hoarder when it comes to toys. He was beating up other dogs who even looked at his toys. The first thing a behaviorist told me to do was increase his exercise. I could see the difference when he didn't have as much excess energy.

We get a lot of snow in the winter, but the dogs still look forward to their walks.

[leslieann79]

I feel like a slacker now! Well I felt like that before I asked this question lol. I am inspired now. We took the dogs out yesterday (the whole family yikes!). We have a 6 year old and a 3 year old and sometimes they can be a p.i.t.a. (but we love them). If I could get out of the house alone I think the walks would go better. My husband took our bigger dog and I took our little guy. The dogs do really well its mostly the kids! I'm gonna try to get out at least five times a week now. We have gone weeks without walking the dogs and it causes me guilt. We are relatively new dog owners. We got our big guy in February and our yorkie-chon in May. So they haven't been here long. I'm determined to be better and more consistent in exercising them.

[richards6402]

I walk my two at least once a day for 45 minutes and sometimes twice a day if the weather is nice. If I am not ready to walk by 7:30 A. I have one that starts running back and forth from my closet to the door and barks until we go. Both of mine don't like to walk in the cold (I don't either) so they have extra energy in the cold months that they burn off chasing each other.

[joyce evans]

Originally Posted by leslieann79

Y'all is a very efficient word Joyce lol. So what does your little one do for exercise?

Yes it is! She runs around the house like her little queen self and we play fetch. She brings her toys to me when she's ready to play. Her favorite toy is a raccoon but if she can get her mouth on an empty water bottle she manages to toss and chase it all over the house. She usually doesn't include me in the water bottle games. I have a pool and do take her swimming on occasion but she doesn't really care for that much. I really wish I could just open the door and let her run outside but that will never happen. I see way to many hawks and other wildlife.

[JstPooh]

I walk Gizmo twice a day, before work and after dinner. He's a little lazy cuz usually about half way he wants me to pick him up. As we walk he consistently looks up at me and when I stop and ask him what he wants he sits in front of me and I ask 'do you want up?' and he stands up and lifts his hind leg so I can pick up. I carry him for a little then back down he goes and he seems fine. However, when it comes to going up the stairs he doesn't want to. He will run two steps ahead of me and sit on the step in front of me so I can pick him up.
He's a little spoiled....

[KazzyK810]

No I don't. I'm such a slacker. I blame it on where I live. I used to live in a subdivision and it was so easy to just walk out the front door and go for a walk around the subdivision (although fences weren't allowed in the sub, so when you saw a dog in a yard, you never knew if they had invisible fence and it was contained or if it was going to come running after you).

Now I live on a main road (two lane 45mph zone that people routinely do 55+ down), and have to load ZoE into the car and drive to the nearby walking trails. They are literally just a few miles away but it's still a pita. I do have a fenced in yard so Zo gets to run around a lot in the spring, summer and autumn. I still like to take her for walks on a leash every once in a while just to keep up good leash habits.

[bobthedog]

Yes twice a day

[Batgirl38]

Does running around in the yard 4-5 times a day as good as a walk?

[dalilu]

We too go out not less than twice a day. Mornings and before going to sleep. We go around the block which is about 30 minutes with all the stops. Also they go out just to pee twice more, but just an in & out.
My eldest son says I pamper them too much but I just don't see how they can hold it between the longer walks. If I don't take them out there will sure be some accidents and Cayo destroys the pee pads, so he doesn't use them anymore.

[SueinPgh]

Pippin is over 10 mos old. I found that transitioning from training pads to outside potty (winter to spring) went a lot easier if we were on a walk, rather than me standing over her in the backyard to go pee.
6:30 am up and out to pee
Pippin eats
I get dressed for work
Out for a 10 min walk to pee and poop
I go off to work
Mom picks up Pippin for the day
She is home by 5
I'm home by 6:30, out to pee
Dinner for Pip, she gets a toy
I eat dinner
20-30 min walk to pee and poop around 8 or 8:30
9:45 Just out side to pee
Bed at 10
Start all over again.
Weekends are a little different and except for am and pm the days are not really scheduled as well as during the week.
She can tell time and will let me know around 7:45 after dinner when it is time for a walk. She tends to race around the block, pulling and tugging, sniffing so that by the end we are both tired. But we are working on that.

[yorkiefan_]

Just took Cook out for a nice 30 minute walk. I think I'll probably go back to doing it every day like in the spring.

[matese]

Originally Posted by Batgirl38

Does running around in the yard 4-5 times a day as good as a walk?

yes it is, it's exercise. I walk Cody because 1- good for his nails, 2-so he doesn't forget how to walk on the leash. He has the yard to run in during the day. He 100% house broken, he'll let me know when he needs to go out.

[yorkiefan_]

Originally Posted by matese

yes it is, it's exercise. I walk Cody because 1- good for his nails, 2-so he doesn't forget how to walk on the leash. He has the yard to run in during the day. He 100% house broken, he'll let me know when he needs to go out.

Yep, Cook gets so much exercise out back chasing things. I think she has developed into a lean, mean, energy machine. When she was little a walk around the park would tire her out and she'd take a nap not too long after. Now she still wants to play after her walk today!

[leslieann79]

Day two and I took the dogs out. Its sad that two days in a row makes me feel accomplished. Our yorkie-chon got home drank some water and went to bed in his crate. He's pooped!