Who walks the dogs when you're ill?

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OH and I usually manage to be ill at different times but this week we have both been suffering from the most hideous sickness bug which has meant we really darent leave the house for the last couple of days. Usually our 2 young springers get walked 3 times a day, 2 half hour off lead walks and a quick last thing at night leg stretch and wee, the older IWS comes if he wants to and doesnt if he chooses to stay on the sofa:) We're lucky that we have a safe secure garden and have been able to leave the back door open for them to come and go all day (although I have to say that for most of it they have been asleep with one or other of us, either in bed or on the sofa). They have been so well behaved, no mess indoors and no manic springing either, they really do seem to understand the situation. I am feeling very guilty though, its not ideal for them not to get out but I cant remember feeling this sick ever! What does everyone else do with their pooches when they are seriously unable to get out of the house?
 
eek it's never happened to me! But, we have family living very close so I assume they would step in! If I got really desperate there are a couple of reputable dog walking companies that I would trust close by :)
 
i think the word "tough!" springs to mind!

i too have a spaniel x whos slightly nuts... but also more than happy to sleep next to my bed when im ill and "look after me"

we have a garden she can play on if neeeded....its happened several times now and we dont have any other family to walk them so it really is tough.

wont hurt them for a few days imo!
 
noodle_ said:
i think the word "tough!" springs to mind!

i too have a spaniel x whos slightly nuts... but also more than happy to sleep next to my bed when im ill and "look after me"

we have a garden she can play in if needed....its happened several times now and we dont have any other family to walk them so it really is tough.

wont hurt them for a few days imo!
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But I would have to be really sick. I can usually drag myself out even when I'm ill and I usually feel better for it.
 
Me:o

I live alone so there is no other option - luckily I have only been that poorly a couple of times that walking them has been to much for me - then my sister or neices have taken them (mainly Max as Sweep is happy to sleep) for a quick spin for me :)

Generally though they seem to know if you are not firing on all cylinders and seem quite happy to sleep :)
 
Friends have popped him out for me in the past, and the OH has stepped into the breach recently too:)

He's normally a good boy while I'm poorly, it's the first walk after I feel better when I end up paying for all that pent up energy... as he streaks off doing the canine equivalent of WAAAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
 
Luckly rarely ill its usually me that walks dogs for friends when they are ill. I was confined to bed with pnemonia once and friends,family rallied round for the dogs and horses. Anything less than this and I drag myself out, they have to have a shorter walker,I sit on a gate and let them run around.
 
Me :) The last time I was ill I had to drive to the yard and nap before mucking out and feed, then nap again before walking the dog. Napped again and made it home. Don't normally get that sick tho luckily!
 
The last time I was really ill with a chest infection, I was out trudging through the snow hocking up brown/yellow/green stuff from one end and he was piddling red stuff out the other, what a sight it must have made :o :o :o all the fresh air was a great help though :o
 
I've got the most rotten stinking cold at the moment and managed to do an hour's walk this morning and 30 minutes this afternoon, powered by Lemsip and Sudafed, OH will have to take them out in the dark when he gets home as I feel weak as a kitten now.

Mucked out this morning with a tissue plug in each nostril, just could not stop my nose from dripping, and had to sit down to rest twice. :o
 
last xmas oh and i were both sick (camped in a bathroom each :o) for 4 days - we let the dogs out into the garden to do their business but they just knew and spent the 4 days looking after us! lab at my husbands feet - springer on the shag pile rug which he loves but is never usually allowed to sleep on - and the cocker at my feet
they were all fit working dogs mid-season and could hear the local shoot too - but all of them just seemed to understand and were v quiet for us
 
Now my children are adults, if they are about they can do the animals. But there have been times when I have been really rough and dogs just get let in the garden, and a few sections of hay are chucked at ponies and thats it. :(
 
I've broke my ankle early September and mine have just had to lump it and scoot round the garden several times a day as OH has been working about 12hrs a day and mum has her mob and my horses plus everything else. Ok Millie and Jim have gotten a little portly but apart from that they've been fine. Last week or two I've managed to take them for a short blast with mum and I've just got back from walking them individually and painfully slowly - my ankle is now twice the size it normally is and it's normally bigger than it should be any way lol.
 
I drive the dogs to the yard drive, I chuck them out and drive down the drive with them running infront (about 1/2 mile drive) get to the bottom,turn around and back up again. Mainly because the girly wont do her business in the garden no matter how desperate she gets
 
Have have ME and Crohns disease so Pixel is used to it. We have a big garden and she will quite happily go a week if I'm really ill bless her. It's what she's always known :( now that I have my horse back off loan she as a charge around the field at the very least each day. My sister and boyfriend sometimes walk her, but they know she's my pride and joy and I think they are scared about taking her out incase something happened to her!!! :O xx
 
luckily (touch wood!) im very rarely ill. but last year i was bowled over by a flu-y type thing, and calum was away. i dont ever remember being flat out for 4 days straight.

it took all my energy (of which there was zero) to get off the couch, and almost crawl to the end of the road where i could let betty off to run around at a large grassy area. i managed it morning and night... but im sure people were staring at me- i looked awfull! and was going slower than a snail! :p

didnt help that it was freezing, and blowing a gale with driving rain. cry for me! :p
 
I'm lucky my mum and dad have a largish garden so when I was unable to go more than 5 mins from a toilet beginning of the week I could stand one end of the garden and throw roxs ball for her for a good hour or more in between dashes to the toilet! My dad took her out for proper walks around his shift for me too but even at 38 weeks pregnant and thigh deep in snow I still walked her.
 
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