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GeeGeeboy

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Was just wondering;

How often do you walk your dog and for how long?
Also, what do you do with your dog when you go riding (leave at home,take out with horse, tie-up somewhere) ?

Thanks guys:D
 
My three greyhounds get a run off the lead in the morning in the paddocks, and an hour walk in the evening mainly off the lead :)

Now I live on the yard I leave the dogs at home when I ride, but I used to bring them to the yard and leave them in the car (if cold) or stable (if warm) whilst I rode - I wasnt very popular with my old YO, the dogs used to howl when I was away :rolleyes:
 
11 month old German Pointer

2 45 min walks a day. If one is longer (out with friends or something) then I do short round the bock walk and keep him quiet for few days (he's young so thinking about his joints)

If I am riding if it's cold I leave him in the car, otherwise I tie him up next to the school. If I'm hacking and not going on roads I've started taking him with me, otherwise he stays in car, or if hot left at home (left him in stable once and he screamed for an hour!! oops! luckily YO didn't care!)
 
Two to four walks totalling about three hours/around eight miles per day, plus a ten minute pee-walk early morning and late night (no garden). Some days we do a bit less, for example she's only had one walk today of 1hr 30mins but spent several hours this afternoon at the MILs with free roam of a massive garden instead, but it's made up for with a bit extra the next day if she's full of beans.

She's left at home while I ride and I arrange it around my OH coming home so she's alone for one to two hours max. She'd howl herself hoarse if left tied up and I'd never see her again if I tried to take her with me. :p
 
GeeGeeboy said:
Was just wondering;

How often do you walk your dog and for how long?
Also, what do you do with your dog when you go riding (leave at home,take out with horse, tie-up somewhere) ?

Thanks guys:D
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Varies from a working day to a day off/weekend
Working:
Morning walk starts at 7am for 30min
Tass then gets walked at 6pm for about 45min.
Tassy is scared of the horses so slinks back inside (our horses live at home)

On a wednesday (I dont work weds/my OH doesnt work fridays) or friday or weekend or school break (Im a Teacher)
Tassy gets walked in the morning at about 8.30am for 30 min
Lunchtime 10 min walk or the big walk at lunchtime
evening is a 1.5 to 2 hour walk

she cant really do much longer due to age- 2 hours at a time is her tops.
 
Almost 3yo GSDs. Try to get them 90 mins a day walking.
We do hillwalking, jogging, training twice a week (agility, tracking, obedience) etc and hooning in the field.
I don't have my own horse and my two regard horses as rapidly retreating edible projectiles, so they don't go anywhere near them :o B has met Colleen's Missy under strict supervision though :)
 
Mine dont get walked on a morning as OH walks the dogs he is paid to walk between 11 and 2pm, we then take ours for 1 and a half hours all of lead full on running until they are paggered, as half the pack are lurcher, the akita and deerhound ta along at their own speed, we then take them again for another 1 and a half hours to the fields or walk round the nature reserve, so we average about 3 hours of exercise per day.
I dont ride now, but if I did my dogs would be at home because my field is a 5 second walk from my house.
 
Wow- you guys all give your dogs loads of excercise:)

At the moment i take my boy (a Lhasa Apso) about two 20 min walks a day on work days and a good hour/hour and a half on days off. Most of this is off lead. Do you think this sounds ok or do i need to up the excercise?:)
 
2 hour run/walk off lead am. 2 hour walk/bike ride off lead pm then late night wee in field last thing.

They hack out with me as all off road. If riding in field (3 days a week) they mooch about there :)
 
Mine (cocker spaniel and labrador) both get two mooches for half an hour morning and night while I am doing the horses and they get a 'proper' walk round fields every day :)- the lab gets balls etc thrown for him to the bugger out!!:eek::rolleyes: At weekends/days off I try and take them some where different for a 'big walk' maybe 2-3 hours.:cool::)

I live at the yard so when I am riding they are in the garden - they both take themselves in when I get the horses in!!:) Before I lived here I just had the spaniel and he would sit in the car or in a stable if I rode.:)
 
Mine (two 7 year old beagles and one 6 year old larger mix) get about 45 minutes at 5:30am every weekday morning followed by an evening walk 2/3 times a week of up to an hour at about 6 to 6:30pm. It's all off lead for the two that can go off in woods/fields and long lead for the one that can't.

They have access to about 3/4 acre fenced garden any time we are not home.

At weekends we go out once or twice a day for up to two hours each time.

I don't own my own horse so I do not take them to the place I ride but if I get one to ride out, I do plan to try taking my beagle out with me on the trails. I have a feeling she would love it. Over here you don't really ride on the roads at all so there wouldn't be a time when she would be loose on a road. I wouldn't want that.
 
on week days they get an hour in the morning, either running / jogging on the lead or just under an hour off lead on the common chasing rabbits. evening they will get another hour, maybe more or have agility / obedience.

Weekends they come with us most places, might go out on the boat and can have a couple of hours walking or sometimes not as much but are always knackered as they have been awake all day

They are a british inuit and a JRT

They have done charity walks - 12 miles beach walking, maily off the lead and when we got to the end wanted to go round again!!
 
9 year old terrier
Weekdays
15 min walk first thing in the morning
Quick trip up the lane at lunch
1/2 hour- 1 hour in the afternoon
Quick trip up the lane last thing in the eve.

Weekend
About the same but with a longer 2+ hour walks, or multiple 45 min walks.

When I ride, she just stays home as the yard is about 2 mins from the house.
 
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