Where do you walk your dogs?

[reddie]

Comng back from walking the dogs after work, just started wondering what type of places most people walk ther dogs. I usually take mine down the local fields most days for walks rangng between 40 minutes to one and a half hours. Sometmes i walk around the block (in the town). Just beng nosey really!!

 

[haycroft]

For a quick run i usually take them to the park round the corner,very good for socialisation for the pup as they are usually other dogs there alsorts of ages and breed
otherwise in fields,road walking ,racing and coursing
cant take to the yard as the YO dogs arent friendly

in the week they have 3-4 small walks per day including free running,weekends longer walks and free running

 

[NicoleS_007]

I live a two minute walk from a park so just walk round there everyday. We have a couple of different routes so we dont get bored lol

 

[Cinnamontoast]

The local woods. There's a path to the park and the stream but I haven't taken the pups there yet, bit far still. The big dog likes the river-loves swimming, but hasn't been for ages. They don't get walked on roads/pavements.

 

[Llewellyn]

I am very lucky where I live there is a slag heap behind that is now a nature reserve with trees and from the top you can see into shropshire, thats the quick walk, or in the dark there is a park two minutes away well two one acre fields used as a footy pitch. 1.5 miles away is Cannock chase 3,500 hecters (sp?) of heathland and woodland. Yay! The slag heap and the park has lots of dogs off the lead but the chase has nobody, walk for hours and never see anybody well very rarely. Very scarey.

 

[soloabe]

In the morning its a run around our neighborhoods.

Lunch time its a walk around the community fields

Afternoon its another run around the neighborhoods and into the forest area.

At night its a drive to the dog park.

 

[blackcob]

I actively avoid the park - can't stand it, unless it's noon on a weekday so I know there won't be anyone else around.

We pretty much back straight on to a footpath and arable fields, from which there's three circular walks of an hour to an hour and a half which all incorporate a securely fenced field that she can go off-lead in.

In the winter she comes to the yard with me, is tied up while I muck out and then has free running in the spare paddock and/or choice of another three or four walks of about an hour, completely cross-country.

Twice a week I drive for fifteen minutes to go here:

But never on a Saturday because it's full of tourists. We do three walks a day, about three hours, plus an early morning and late night pee walk (our garden is cobbled, she won't wee on it). Oh, and twice a week we have an early morning playdate with another husky in a big fenced field.

 

[DallyDoop]

I have a large park 2 mins walk away, I take them to the horses with me and walk in the empty field and this morning I walked to the horses and back with him.

 

[reddie]

Blackcob - that looks a fab place to have so close by.

 

[Horseyscot]

Here:

 

[reddie]

That looks fab as well,

 

[Cinnamontoast]

Here:

Cor! Can I come and live with you, please?

 

[Horseyscot]

Course you can, we've plenty room

 

[GinaB]

The beach at Ballywalter which is 20 minutes drive away. Walk wise it takes around 45minutes but Beastie charges around like a mad thing. I go when there is no one else there...

We also go to the Floodgates which is a path which runs along from Ards to Comber, with Strangford Lough on one side. It takes about an hour, it's an off lead walk.

Leadmines which can take however long you want! Lots of paths to take.

There is also the old quarries that lead up to Scrabo Tower, no good pictures which is a pity as it is beautiful there. I will also walk around the town if too late/no petrol to drive anywhere!!

 

[celia]

They come out in the fields with me when I feed the horses morning and evening and most days I poo-pick mid morning so they're out then too. Big dog is hacking companion for sisters boy so he gets a 'proper' walk 3/4 times a week either on quiet lanes, down to the village or on the moor. Mostly they get their exercise just running and playing together round the farm.

Hurtling round one of the fields this summer:

And this is the bridlepath running up from our lane to the moor:

 

[Goya]

I have a fantastic choice of walks. the only downside is that I do need the car for all except one, although most are only 5 minutes or less by car.
I have:
green lane
Disused railway line ( which has a choice of 2 routes)
Another disused railway line about 15 minutes by car, again with a choice of routes.
two gravel pit walks.
several country parks
Riverside walks
the flyball training field.

And there are more if I travel slightly further.

I never get bored. It's deciding where to go which gives me a problem. lol.

 

[Cyrus]

Here a 12 acre nature reserve out the back of our garden

The wonderful Thetford forest is about 25 minutes drive away and has miles and miles of trails

Weavers way a 56 mile across country trail

and one of the many beaches within 20 minutes drive from us

 

[prosefullstop]

Weekdays: to Central Park (which is off leash before 9am, and at 850 acres is a pretty nice place for them to run around), to the dog run, and around the streets of NYC in the evening.

Weekends: to the beaches two hours outside the city, or to the woods of CT.

 

[Tinkerbee]

Morning walk, just into the village.

Lunchtime, around the fields.

Afternoon/weekend walks, up on the moors:

Further afield, cart them to Edale or somewhere:

 

[Patches]

I walk my dog almost exclusively loose over our dairy farm. At the moment he likes to come and fetch the cows with us and the working Border Collie. He's actually proving to be a pretty good cow dog. He barks at them, which makes them get up, then he walks behind them sending them towards home. Bless him.

The cows will be in shortly for winter, but Harvey will continue his walks with Bess over the farm. If it gets really muddy, and he's recently had a bath, I will sometimes chuck him in the car to walk either around the village on a lead or over the local nature reserve (as it has a gravel path = no mud)

Here is our wonder dog, and the collie Bess, fetching the cows.

 

[mollichop]

I have a huge country park on my doorstep which is a mix of open fields, woods and lakes, so there mornings and around farmland where I keep my horse in the afternoons / evenings.

 

[CAYLA]

To the left of my house, is acres of farm fields and woodland and behind my house these is a nature reserve, so we swap and change, we also go further afield to walk the dogs that OH walks.

 

[reddie]

Lookng at all the lovely places people walk their dogs made me decide to change my usual route over pleasant but fairly borng arable land. Just 10 mns up the road and a walk down a very posh lane with lots of swanky houses, over the golf course, through woods, along the canal and round in a loop. made a pleasant change. Sometimes go into the Peak Districy but that's more of a full day.