Walking the dogs - what do you do?

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Do you tend to walk around the area nearest to your home?

Do you take the dog/s to the yard?

Do you take the dog/s someplace that is an hour or two away in the car to walk them and come home again?

Am just wondering, if it were my choice i would do the first two, but my OH i think is rather odd, he spent 3 - 4 hours driving about with the dogs yesterday so he could take them for an hours walk?!?
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Don't quite get it and personally think its a waste of fuel!
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I walk from the house, usually one at a time, as it is along a road and they muck about.
If I have to take them both at the same time, there are a couple of off road routes.

We have been living in this house for ten years and my mother has never walked them from the house, she puts them in the car, albeit she only goes round the corner to a layby but she doesn't want to walk along the road and the other walks that I do are too much bother for her (very steep, lots of clambering over stuff)

A long journey in the car to walk them wouldn't make sense to me, we have a forest park on our doorstep.
However we do drive them to the beach, which they love.
I admit it is very easy for me to say that and not everyone is as lucky as we are to have our surroundings.
 
We are really lucky as there are three huge woods within ten minutes drive, so that is where Otto goes.
If I take him out I have to walk from the house as I don't drive, which I hate as we are right next to a busy main road.
If we were to take him to the beach it would be a 3 hour round trip, but it would be a day out rathr than just taking the dog for a walk.
 
During the week we walk around work or from home but at weekends and days off I drive 15-20 mins to the woods or a country park - I just enjoy the walk more because they're such nice places to walk in. I do drive to the beach sometimes too which is about 45mins away.
 
Definitely a waste of time if you live in/near an area that has plenty of walking opportunites!

I try and kill two bids with one stone (so to speak!) and walk pooch at the yard if I can. Other than that, it's usually just in the fields around my house.
 
During the week they are walked around the area I live in, so it's all on lead with a few off lead moments. Or, if its a nice evening I drive half an hour to the beach.

At weekends, they are taken further and out for longer, be it woods or beach. They sometimes come to the yard, but not usually.
 
Just outside my village there is a stretch of farmland where they're not allowed to build houses because of something to do with flood defences, so it's all criss-crossed with bridlepaths and I walk the dogs over there (incidentally, in the seven years I've lived here I've seen one, maybe two, horses there!). I only have to walk out of the village and across a road, so it only takes about five minutes to get there.
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On the weekends we will sometimes put the dogs in the car and take them to Bourne Woods or maybe Sandringham for a nice long walk, but to be honest I prefer my normal walk because there are rarely other dogs there so I can let my two off the lead. (I don't like letting them off the lead around other dogs - Poppy's recall is not that good and even though Leah's is fine, I don't trust the other dogs not to attack them!
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Generally I walk the local area, not very exciting and 1st bit quite a busy road, but good for giving them road work. They have plenty of free running in our fields. Couple of times a week we go in the car to off road walks, trouble is they tend to be full of the world and his wife walking their dogs. I am so jealous of people who have acres of countryside to walk in, although I live in the country there is a lack of land open to the public, and most of the footpaths are inaccessible to wimpy Shepherds who can't jump stiles and are too heavy to lift.
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I have 2-3 really nice off road walks at home, but during the summer I would tend to go to the local forest park (20 min in car) or if OH and I are out and about in the car P is always with us so we routeplan to include a walk for her.

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We walk from home, but the first 10 to 15 mins is on the road, so I wear my hi viz hacking vest & we have to go up the verge when there's a car coming. We are in the countryside so there ought to be loads of walks that I haven't found yet.

Sometimes we box to the next village for an 8 mile offroad hack with o/h on his bike. Kane also exercises himself playing with his football up the field while I'm in the school.
 
I'm lucky - I live on a farm so Sweep gets walked from here over the fields - lots of different ways to go - most including a brook
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!! and he tootles around the yard and fields when I am doing the horses - Is well trained now and keeps out of the way of horses, cars etc and takes himself home to bed when he has had enough!!
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For treats we go to the beach - is a day out - and also go to the grounds of the estate where we used to live (has Sweeps favourite gravel pit for swims!!) or the woods at the back of my parents (also includes swimming opportunities!!) - can you spot the recurring theme??!!
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I don't mind a 10 min trip in the car, or may go further for a day at the beach but 3 hours for an hours walk can't be fun for anyone
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There is 30 acre meadow that I walk in 5 minutes up the road or we'll pop to the country park which is 6 miles away if it's a really nice day to let them mingle and smell different smells.
 
I usually go about 3-5mins in the car to the disused railway line, the gravel pits, the green lane or a riverside walk. All within as I said 3-5mins in the car. If I really have to I can walk about 5 mins along the village streets to a large field, but this is a really boring walk. they also go to any "horsey" events we are at.
Occasionally I will go further as there are some lovely walks within about 20 mins by car.
 
My dog potters around the yard everyday but I also load him into the car to the park, woods or beach to give him a change of scenery. We are very lucky in that everything is within 5 mins in the car.
 
Generally we just walk about the village/moors. If it's a nice evening we sometimes take them to Chatsworth, but thats only a couple of minutes drive away. Wouldn't take them any further.

In Ireland everywhere is basically within an hour of our house, so we do take them out to the beach/Fermanagh with us.
 
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