How many walks does your dog get a day?

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Just out of curiosity. My old girl used to get 4 30min walks a day or 2 20min walks and a hour+ walk (usually at weekends) until she got old, when it was cut to 3 or 4 10min walks a day.
A friend of mine recently mentioned her new dog only gets one walk a day, at dinner time. Surely that's not enough for a young dog?
 
Mrs Spaniel varies,
Normally Mon - Fri she has a 30 min walk at 7am.
If OH is at home (he works abroad a lot) she has another at lunch, if not my bro puts her onto garden for a wee at lunch.
Wednesdays and Thursdays we have another at 5pm when i get in from work and another on wednesdays at 7.30 - all 30 minutes, so mondays and Wednesdays she has 90 minutes spread out.
Thursdays i have Spanish class so no evening walk.
Tuesdays and Fridays i see my share and she comes too. She sits in the car while i ride but normally spends an hour pottering while i muck out, playing with other dogs or racing me to the muck cart.

Saturdays are lie-in days :-) she goes out at 7 for a wee and breakfast, but then we go back to bed for a hour or two.
We alternate between an hour minimum at the 'big park' or the woods and in the evening about 6.30 we have a 20 min stroll in the field.

Sundays we go for a 30 min walk in the flyball park, go training for an hour and then to the yard. Depending on time i try to take her for a 40 min stroll around the woods once i've finished with horse. Home for a snooze and again a quick 20 min round the block about 6pm
 
Don't often walk her, she comes pretty much everywhere with me including yard twice a day everyday when she runs round like a loon - we also play Frisbee for a bit at yard am and pm. Totally run around time probable 1.5 hours a day in week and double at weekends.
 
Our lot have one. The old boy runs round like a feral thing, youngsters are trained (retrieves, scent/search, stay then get sent on, gundog stuff). They're normally worn out. Zak gets his own training sometimes, others have a gallop through the woods.
 
I don't walk my dogs as such, never have, they never go on the road, I don't even possess leashes for them.
If I am out, then they are out of their kennel and run around the place chasing whatever smells good, they take themselves swimming in the pond a lot.
 
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We live in the country but at the mo all dogs are on lead due to Neospora infection of local cattle..
One hour in the morning and again an hour in the afternoon.On a Saturday I take them to the city for at least two hours in park,with lots of stopping to chat and socialise the younger dog...then it's the mall for a coffee and some window shopping...dogs go everywhere with us here,shoe shopping,the superstores,literally everywhere.
Wednesday they love the huge Italian market where they get a lot of attention and fuss.We stay about two hours.
in the meantime we play in the garden,train a bit.Mine are two high energy breeds(st poodle and schnauzer)but at home they are nice and quiet and enjoying the couch or garden most afternoons after their walks.
they are with me almost 24/ 7...as I'm lucky not to have to leave them for work.
when I did work in uk,the small dogs(Sylkie terrier and chi) I had would get a pre work walk on the local beach ( half an hr)... Lunchtime twenty mins and evenings an hour.weekends ,much longer.
 
Chan said:
Just out of curiosity. My old girl used to get 4 30min walks a day or 2 20min walks and a hour+ walk (usually at weekends) until she got old, when it was cut to 3 or 4 10min walks a day.
A friend of mine recently mentioned her new dog only gets one walk a day, at dinner time. Surely that's not enough for a young dog?
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one late afternoon or lunchtime
 
Twice a day....morning half hour mad run in fields, and the same in late afternoon, with tennis ball throwing inbetween! Once a day wouldnt be enough for mine, plus i recap training with the younger one after our walk....
 
It depends really. If we go out for a long walk in the morning that will be it. So for example we were out for about two hours yesterday, and that's enough for her (bichon). Most of the walks we do are pretty full on - steep coastal path walks etc. so much so that my OH won't come out with us anymore because they are too challenging 😁

But if we do a 5 mile 'flat' then yes we'll go out again later.

I used to be obsessed with 'two' walks a day. But I've come to realise that it's the quality of the walk and not the quantity that's important.

Daisy is always off lead, runs like a loon and loves her 'off ' grid walking (should have got a collie with the amount we do).

She's never alone and has access to the garden all day for more ball action should she wish.
 
My collie used to get 2 x 30 minute walks and 1 x hour walk during the week. Usually longer during the weekends, and we would spend the day at the beach or the gorge etc. He would whine for ages if I didn't take him out at the normal times and loved getting out and about.

It does depend on the dog. My friend has a 7 year old labrador. He only has one walk a day because he does not want to go out for any more! Some people do only walk once a day but can be out for a while. Or have their dogs at work with them so they are getting lots of exercise and stimulation that way?
 
It does depend on dogs my goldie and my segugio italiano have 2 walks a day..normally a road one and a park one were they can run free.But this is isnt enough for my segugio as she needs mental stimulation as well. So i take her to obedience once a week and do my own training through out the week and i also take her to agilty. I am also considering gun dog training with her but i think i need to improve her obedience before i persue gun dog training.
 
Depends on the breed of dog and the age surely? My old lab had two walks a day, but when he was younger (until about 2yrs of age) he came to work with me when I was a groom, so never needed walks as was running about all day.
We now have a 3 month old lab pup, and at the moment he gets one short walk a day as he is so young and still growing. When he is about 6 months we will go to twice a day, but still short. Then once a year old he will be as normal with long walks on the beach/south downs. At the moment he gets plenty of mental stimulation and play time aside from the walk.
 
It's changed since I've been home but at the moment they both get 30 - 45 mins in the middle of the day with my mum, mostly off lead and Fizz has a little chase of her ball. Jack just bimbles a long but manages at least one fast run to get a biscuit when he deliberately stops behind.

They then either get 45 mins round the streets in the evening or we just take Fizz onto the field with her ball and the flinger.

At the weekend I try and do a longer walk but Jack isn't enjoying them as much now so I just take Fizz, she also has zoomy play dates with her sighthound friends at weekends.
 
Surely it will depend on how old your friends new dog is and what breed - far too many people over exercise young dogs who are still very much growing into themselves.

Mine gets walked in a morning, and depending on how much of the day she has been with me or OH she may well go again in an evening.
 
Agree that it depends on so many different factors. You say it is a young dog - if it has not finished growing then it shouldn't be over-exercised as RTE rightly points out. The length and nature of the walk is another factor - there is a huge difference between having a 15 min toddle round the block on the lead and an hour bounding around loose with other dogs through fields and woodland. The amount of stimulation the dog has during the day has to be considered too - if there is someone at home with the dog during the day and it gets plenty of time outside in the garden, then one walk a day might be fine. If the owner is out a lot, then two shorter walks might break things up better.

And then you have to look at the dog itself - if it is not overweight and isn't bursting with excess energy then the amount of walking is probably fine. If it is fat or exhibiting behaviour problems then probably exercise needs to be stepped up.
 
Either one half hour walk and then training or an.hour up the farm off lead mixed with training in that.

If it's chucking it down then just training in the house.
 
Mine (6 and 7) only get one walk a day, off lead for 45 mins or more. During the week I have my small sons with me so our walks are pretty unexciting, though we go to places where they meet lots of other dogs. And tbh I won't drag the boys out in the pouring rain or if one of them is poorly, so some days the dogs don't get a walk at all I'm afraid. They usually come out hacking with me once a week and go for a good long walk in the woods with my husband once or twice.

Life was definitely more exciting for my dogs before we had kids, but they have coped really well with the change and are happy waggy dogs still.
 
Mine comes to work with me so is on the yard approx. 4 hours a day and in car/stable for the the rest (while I ride/turn out/bring in.)
Saturdays and Sundays I work a non dog friendly yard so she gets an hour in the morning and a 10 min round the block in the evening. She's a 3yr old dalmatian and spends any time not out at work with me curled up asleep!
 
I don't take mine out for walks as such. This time of year I will take two when I go shooting, a couple of the run of the place. The others have access to our large garden etc.

Depends on the dog and you circumstances tbh.
 
Normally once a day but we go for about an hour with lots of off lead.

I think they'd prefer to do twice a day but it takes about 15 mins to get to a good off lead place so we never come straight back, and neither of them need 2hrs a day.
 
Id be interested what other people do with their chi's?

On a work day he has a 10 minute walk in the morning and a 30 minute walk in the evening.

Weekends he does as above and comes to the yard with me too.

He doesn't particularly like leaving the house so I'm sure he would be happy with no walks at all!
 
my mother in law has 2 chis & a Pomeranian. the 2 chi's don't really like walking! I used to think that was crazy & an excuse but that is true- they potter around her big house & have a secure garden. the pomeranian loves walks, although doesn't go out very often.

i have a german sheperd who would love to run around all day long, but he is no where near as hyper as when we got him aged 2, 2 years ago. he likes naps now! i rarely take him for a walk, but he comes to the yard am & pm and turns out the horses, whose field is 10 minute walk, and runs around hay barn ratting! he is always raring to go in the morning, even at 5.30 am, but on a sunday when i have a small lie in and breakfast before the horses, he will lie down and wait.

he also runs with us- got up to 9 miles while i was trianing for a half marathon, he loves it

agree 2 walks a day just depends so much on the quality and quantity.
 
I have a 4 year old border collie and a 3 year old Dachshund.

In my experience (particularly with the Collie) it is not about frequency or duration but actually the quality of the exercise. Taking her for a 30 minute 'walk' will have far less benefit than 15 minutes of 'work'. She needs the mental simulation of training more than she needs a walk. But that being said work and life doesn't always allow for the ideal. They come to the yard with me and we play ball at the yard most days which is a good energy user. But even with that she still needs the 'mental' stimulation, even 10 minutes in the house teaching her a new trick can be enough. But then she is a born and bred working dog...

The Dachshund really is happy whatever she gets!
 
I have 11 year old boxer, 5 year old black lab and a 4 year old Boston terrier. We go out early in the morning walk half an hour then back home and I have my own land and yard they come there if the horses are in and have the run of the land but I undo the straw barn door as they sometimes like to play in there. At 1pm we go out for a good fast walk for 1 hour, we are straight on to the moor and only 5 minutes from the forestry commission so we can cover some ground. At 6 we are out again for about 30/45minutes and 20 minutes at midnight.They are all very fit and bark if their routine isn't kept to so this happens year round what ever the weather.
 
My mad Parson Russell gets three walks, a long one first thing then two 'round the block'. Her long walk is on a 30ft line as she has no recall at all so the long line gives her a chance to bug hunt in long grass and to squirrel chase, other two are on lead, she also has a big garden to play in.
 
My border collie goes out for a wee (quick 5 mins) at about 05.30 before I go to work then when hubby gets up (around 7) he takes her with him up to the stables where she runs around all day - she does every wheelbarrow trip, trips to the field, a couple of times a week she'll round sheep.

They get home around 4 and then she gets another short walk (toilet duties) around 7 then last thing before bed.
 
11yo setter and he has three walks a day plus loafing around the yard etc. Walks are fairly sedate these days although he does accompany me jogging for 30mins four times a week (which is not fast enough for him to break out of trot!). So 25mins morning and last thing and 45mins at lunchtime (he comes to work with me). There are other dogs about so he has a bit of a play at break times as well. Weekends he might get slightly longer but he's doing better on slower, more regular walks these days.
 
The lurchers get one walk a day, between an hour and an hour and a half. Most of it is off lead and they race each other, retrieve a ball or run around trying to find rabbits. They also get training, doing stays, recalls, heel work and proper retrieves during the walk. In the afternoon they each get individual training as the latest addition is going to classes and when I practice with her, the others feel aggrieved if they get left out!

The terrier had a cruciate operation six moths ago. His exercise is carefully planned to get him fitter without setting him back and he spends most of his walks on a 10m. line to stop him overdoing it.
 
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