How far do you walk your dogs daily?

Clodagh said:
It is totally horses for courses. But to see Levrier's hounds, they do look amazingly well muscled and fit. My BIL has got a tb to hunt now, he has always had ISH before, and he said the TB takes a week to get fit, the ISH's 10.
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Ha ha that was me - I’d had TBs for quite a few years then I got a lightweight cob type. My constant comment seemed to be “why isn’t he fit yet??!!” 😄

Interestingly Ace was running every single week at Belle Vue 😡 until very recently but he isn’t well muscled at all - he is very big though so I suspect he will be a string bean type!
 
Levrier said:
Ha ha that was me - I’d had TBs for quite a few years then I got a lightweight cob type. My constant comment seemed to be “why isn’t he fit yet??!!” 😄

Interestingly Ace was running every single week at Belle Vue 😡 until very recently but he isn’t well muscled at all - he is very big though so I suspect he will be a string bean type!
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So off topic of your post, but I quite like greyhound racing. (Haven't actually been since I was a child). A lady at work is a trainer. Is it worse than horse racing?
 
We have a 4yr old collie and an 11yr old border terrier. Morning walk is 5-6 miles mostly off lead, but the collie puts extra mileage into her walks and the BT enjoys a swim in the lakes. Evening walk is a quick mile off lead down the lane. We also take them fell walking which will be 8-10 miles over challenging terrain or on camping short breaks where they are walking mountains for much of the days.
Between them and the horses, we must be quite fit, although it doesn't feel like it some evenings.
 
Levrier said:
Awwww you see spaniel number 2 could come and live me with me, he and Millie could tire each other out! Those eyebrows ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😄
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I have just spent 40 minutes combing brambles and cleavers out of his groin, you are welcome to him, ginger eyebrows and all. :p
 
Mine are pets, working pets but still pets. They live in, sleep on my sofa and are generally part of the family. I do take competitions seriously but that's more because I use it as a gauge of my training and there is nothing as insufferable as a badly trained gundog.

I could probably train a walking routine, there's many triallers who do but outside the run down the lane to the lake daily I don't see a point. We can do a few km at heel with memory retrieves to entertain them if I fancy wandering through the countryside. I chose to buy in high octane red ink field trial pedigrees so giving them a job seems only fair.
 
Walking and exploring the countryside are my favourite things to do with my dogs but to do it successfully and without too many incidents they have to be well trained and behaved so we train as well.

My 11 year old GSD gets 20 min potter, mooch, sniff two to three times a day and spends the rest of it snoozing in the garden (my back door is permanently open).

My 8 year old working GSD gets between 5-8 miles off lead a day on average as well as swimming and work on the farm.

My 7 month working GSD pup gets around 30-35 minutes twice a day with short bursts of training several times a day - from obedience stuff to scentwork and tracking. I can't wait until he is old enough to do the long hikes.

The working border collies can have miles and miles a day of running when they are gathering the hills, to just free running and play around the fields by our cottage at quieter times. They don't have a set routine but do get work every day.
 
Stanley the BT, gets round about an hour in the morning and 30-40 minutes in the late afternoon. He's mainly off lead but I do do some road work with him. TBH he'd go all day as long as it's not too warm and has a bad habit of sitting down and refusing to walk when we are in sight of home if he feels he's not gone far enough. If I'm short of time in the afternoon, we do some training in our big field and a bit of canine parkour, which he loves.
 
I thought of this thread today - 3.5miles by my Garmin and the greyhound boys were sulking when they got back to the car, how dare I make them walk that far 😂

Both the lurcher girls - aged 3 and 12 respectively - would have done it all again a couple of times, in fact Amy (as the only one off the lead) probably did double that distance 😄
 
Levrier said:
I thought of this thread today - 3.5miles by my Garmin and the greyhound boys were sulking when they got back to the car, how dare I make them walk that far 😂

Both the lurcher girls - aged 3 and 12 respectively - would have done it all again a couple of times, in fact Amy (as the only one off the lead) probably did double that distance 😄
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You can see why people say greys make fabulous sofa surfers!
 
CorvusCorax said:
Lol Lev neither of mine went that far today :p

People do tell me what they do with their dogs during the week in terms of exercise and training, but the dogs always tell me otherwise ;) and they're always brilliant at home!
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My Dad (who doesn't have a dog) tells me he walks 3 miles a day, and describes the route to me, it is maybe 300 yards!
 
CorvusCorax said:
Lol Lev neither of mine went that far today :p

People do tell me what they do with their dogs during the week in terms of exercise and training, but the dogs always tell me otherwise ;) and they're always brilliant at home!
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Yep I always find it fascinating when people tell me how far they walk....ummm.... doubt it to be honest 😄 I was just the same before I started measuring it I hasten to add, I probably would have estimated 5 miles today 🙄😂
 
i just know how long i am out and how quickly i am walking and once i got a fit bit type watch i found it interesting how many miles it thinks i have done. i am not confident that they are that accurate...
 
splashgirl45 said:
i just know how long i am out and how quickly i am walking and once i got a fit bit type watch i found it interesting how many miles it thinks i have done. i am not confident that they are that accurate...
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There is a very funny ‘shock horror expose’ by Which magazine out at the moment which claims basic fitbits, Garmins etc are not accurate to measure a marathon.

Unfortunately their test was done on a treadmill, where personally I’ve never ever got accurate results from a wrist device, and nobody who wants to run a marathon would use a basic model anyway.... 🙄😄
 
Levrier said:
There is a very funny ‘shock horror expose’ by Which magazine out at the moment which claims basic fitbits, Garmins etc are not accurate to measure a marathon.

Unfortunately their test was done on a treadmill, where personally I’ve never ever got accurate results from a wrist device, and nobody who wants to run a marathon would use a basic model anyway.... 🙄😄
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some of the testing in Which magazine is pretty poor tbh, am sure school kids could come up with something more rigorous-there was a particularly funny one on mosquito repellent that was the sort of study that gives statistics a bad name.
 
My horses live here at home and dogs come out and "help" me with bringing in/feeding etc., and also the chooks.

We have a 10 acre field which the horses use some of, so they've got all that room for a jaunt!

If I'm going anywhere in the car e.g. pick up feed or whatever, they'll hop in the back and come along and we'll have an outing to somewhere different.
 
I should start tracking mine and what they get does depend on what we're doing but on a day me and OH are at work they get 20 - 30 mins in the morning before work, 15 mins at lunch when OH comes back and 30 mins - 1 hr in the evening. If I'm at work but OH is off (the vice versa at the weekend) they get 1 - 2 hours with him during the day and 30 mins - 1 hr in the evening and we try and do a longer 5+ mile walk at the weekend if we're both off.

If we have Flyball training/Toss and Fetch that day or a competition the following day they get 2 x 15 - 30 mins walks.

Their walks are mostly on lead however we have found a quiet field on the longer walk we do in an evening so 2 - 3 times a week I'm trying to give Dobby some time on his long line working on his recall and arousal with tennis balls/frisbees.
 
I’m sure my Apple watch very accurately recorded the ten steps it took me to stand still in the middle of the paddock yesterday, occasionally lobbing a tennis ball. It was blowing a gale, everyone did laps for 20 minutes and then got bundled back inside.

No one has eaten the house as a consequence so meh. 😛 Although I did have to endure a spaniel/schipperke humpathon at an ungodly hour this morning...
 
blackcob said:
I’m sure my Apple watch very accurately recorded the ten steps it took me to stand still in the middle of the paddock yesterday, occasionally lobbing a tennis ball. It was blowing a gale, everyone did laps for 20 minutes and then got bundled back inside.

No one has eaten the house as a consequence so meh. 😛 Although I did have to endure a spaniel/schipperke humpathon at an ungodly hour this morning...
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That made me lol - sorry you can keep Mr Gorgeous Eyebrows if he does that 😂😂
 
Depending on the day as I have a dog walker:

Monday - 2 hours with Dog walker in morning. 20 mins in evening with me
Tuesday - 35 minutes in morning, 45 minutes at lunch, 30 minutes in evening all with me
Wednesday - 2 hours with Dog walker in morning. 20 mins in evening with me
Thursday - 35 minutes in morning, 45 minutes at lunch, 30 minutes in evening all with me
Friday - 35 minutes in morning, 45 minutes at lunch, 30 minutes in evening all with me
Saturday - Between 2-2.5 hours with me usually along the canal or we drive to Epping forest and explore that.
Sunday - Usually about 1.5-2 hours. Yesterday we picked my cousin up with her 2 dogs and went to a local woodland area to explore.
 
2 x crossbreds, one stunted lab lookalike the other a small whippet type 18 months and 15 months

Pretty much the same every working day

30min morning through the woods
45mins lunch time bigger loop through the woods
60 mins after work mix of woods and fields

weekends only two walks per day but one is about 1 hour 1/2 the other 40-50 mins.

They aren't let off the lead as they chase the deer in the woods and will chase for miles lost them for 4 hours once and will not risk it again (recall in the field is excellent in the woods nothing once they spot the deer)
 
Working cocker - it varies, morning tends to be 20 - 40 mins off lead pottering, sometimes I do heel work or some basics, evenings, depends on how I feel! Sometimes it's a training session, so memory retrieves, mixture of long and short, some hunting practice, sometimes it's a long walk on the downs. We go to a Gundog training session too, he seems happy and is the perfect house dog when indoors, just sleeps and chills out so we must be doing something right! I was warned I would have a total nutter on my hands, and I would if he just had 20 mins in the park of an evening! But I think because he's doing what he was bred to do he seems content. Bring on hay season, he's going out first thing to check the fields for deer/fawns before it's cut!!
 
Ouch05 said:
They aren't let off the lead as they chase the deer in the woods and will chase for miles lost them for 4 hours once and will not risk it again (recall in the field is excellent in the woods nothing once they spot the deer)
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Oh this is Millie lurcher to a T! I dare not let her off any more - she was picked up 2-3 miles away last time - apparently deer are irresistible 🙄
 
When not broken Daisy will do 2 X 40min - 1hr walk at day care Monday - Friday and then a canicross run 1 or 2 evenings. At weekends it depends what we're doing, if we're hiking she can be out for 5 hours easily, sometimes we'll do a 10km + canicross run, and sometimes she'll just have 2 X 20min walks along the brook! When I'm off work we'll often do 4hrs rambling every other day. Off lead/on lead just depends on the environment we're in.

2 X 20 min per day everyday at the moment is painful 🙈 though she's coming with us to Fontainebleau this weekend so will be spending the day pottering about when we climb rather than any formal walks (on lead/tethered at all times)
 
Just for interest...I put GPS collars on two of mine for a shoot day. The highest we clocked was 44km (Picking up) my FitBit claimed I did 16km on the same day....
 
Question for Lev , off topic.? a friend of mine that has had several rescued greyhounds has had really bad luck with them having bone cancer or breaking legs. two of them now have had amputations. Have any of yours had this sort of problem. Has she just been unlucky
 
Penny Less said:
Question for Lev , off topic.? a friend of mine that has had several rescued greyhounds has had really bad luck with them having bone cancer or breaking legs. two of them now have had amputations. Have any of yours had this sort of problem. Has she just been unlucky
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Sadly as a breed they are prone to bone cancer - thankfully I haven’t had a greyhound who has had it yet - and I haven’t had any who have broken a leg.

I have had a greyhound who had a hind leg amputated as a result of a very nasty localised bacterial infection, she was only 4 at the time and she had a very happy life after her op 😊
 
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