How often do you let your dog/dogs out?

[crazedACD]

Our schedule hasn't been exactly routine with changing work shifts, kids going back to school, etc. My dogs (Zoie/Skye/Rome)? They are fine going out 3x a day to potty. Zoie thinks twice a day would do, unless we are going out to play or for walkies. Realistically right now when me and my mom are working they go out at 6:30am, 8:30am, 2:30pm, 4-5pm, 7pmish, and 10pmish. (Sometimes the 7-10pm is one). If no one is home for a few hours and we come home, they always go a little nuts wanting to go out. When I'm home all day we spend a lot of time outside throughout the day together.

[crazedACD]

My goal in life is to be able to have a covered kennel on a concrete pad they can go out to potty in, or have a indoor/outdoor kennel in the yard when I'm at work. I really wish I could do a doggy door but someone would under the fence in no time with no supervision.

[PitBullLove]

Countless times a day. Not because they need to go out, though. Just because they want to go outside with me or my mom when we go outside to smoke, so between both of us thats every 2 hours or so. They go out as soon as I get up in the morning, after they are fed in the morning, when my little brother gets home from school at 3pm, and then when I get home at 6pm - and then however many times after that in the evening.

[PWCorgi]

Originally Posted by crazedACD

My goal in life is to be able to have a covered kennel on a concrete pad they can go out to potty in, or have a indoor/outdoor kennel in the yard when I'm at work. I really wish I could do a doggy door but someone would under the fence in no time with no supervision.

The Bedlington breeder that I used to shadow in PA had indoor/outdoor runs for when she was out. They were all loose in the house when she was home, but she didn't trust them when she left, so they had their runs. SO COOL!

[Red Chrome]

Once every 24 hours or so.


























Haha. Actually they go out numerous times a day. Starting at 6am and the last one being around 10.

[MericoX]

When they get up, an hour or so after eating, when I get home, and before bedtime. Or when I remember/go downstairs.

[elegy]

On a normal workday, first thing in the morning, at lunch, when I get home at the end of the workday, and at bedtime. We'll often be out in the yard over my lunchbreak or in the evenings as well, and sometimes the dogs will ask to go out additional times (for pottying or fresh air or grazing or whatever).

The puppy goes out after meals as well.

[Laurelin]

I would love an indoor/outdoor run setup one day. Long in the future.

[Fran27]

3 times here too, sometimes 4 if he asks.

[JacksonsMom]

If I'm home all day, Jax will usually go out when we wake up (10am ish on my off days). Then again around 12:30 or 1. Again around 4:30 or 5. Again around 8. Then a last time around midnight.

However when I'm going to work, which is only part time... He gets let out around 7:30am, I get home around 1:30 so he gets let out then, again around 4-5, and last time around 9 or 10pm.

I typically don't leave him for more than 6 hours during the day. But he can hold it 10-12 hours sometimes overnight.