How much do you exercise your dog?

[DJEtzel]

Every other day we go throw a few frisbees...

 

[Locke]

Before work, we go for a 20-30 minute walk around the neighbourhood, or to the off leash park up the street.

Spring/summer/fall after work, we walk to the beach (1hr.), play for a bit, walk home. Start to finish, we're usually out 2-3 hours, 4 times a week.
In the winter, we go to the beach for about an hour 2-3 times a week.


Pee-break before my SO leaves for work, sometimes mid day when my BIL is home, and another before bed.

 

[Samsonyte!]

Well I'm horribly inconsistent with exercise to be honest. Wilson is a little bit more demanding so he usually gets a trick training session in each day, and maybe some flirt pole/frisbee/chuck it every other day. And usually three or four 30 minute walks a week.

Sam gets like three walks a week and every so often I'll do some tricks with him, but he's so easy. I could totally get away with never doing anything with him and he'd become mildly annoying at worst.

And both of them get agility a couple times a month right now, but hopefully back to once a week in June. And then we go hiking sometimes and I try to set them loose in a wide open space every once in a while to chase each other and tire each other out. But both of them are so easy to be honest. I've been busy with midterms this week so I've just been putting them in the yard for a little while and they really haven't bothered anyone at all.

 

[cellardoor]

Bare minimum on the worst, coldest, busiest winter days: a 20-minute walk and short potty breaks. Hopefully some training and a few minutes of flirt pole indoors. I don't like to have too many days in a row like that, but if it happens it happens. They're very flexible and don't start bouncing off the walls if they don't get a good run for a week.

Now that the days are longer and nicer, they get at least 2 45-minute walks a day. I also aim for 60-90 minute hikes at least 3 times a week, and 1 or 2 dog park visits.

Honestly, though, no matter what level of exercise they get, these two are fast asleep by 8:30pm. They're up for anything, but very into their beauty sleep.

 

[*blackrose]

I totally plead the 5th on this one.

Fetch in the backyard and around the house most of the evening....that's about it.

 

[PWCorgi]

I'm not one of those people who believes that dogs need 5 hours of exercise a day, OMG!! or that exercise fixes everything.


BUT, I will say that since bringing Skill home we have increased daily exercise for all the dogs, and I didn't realize how under-exercised Siri was before. Many of her behaviors that I didn't like very much which I attributed to her "terrier"ness have disappeared or greatly reduced.

 

[CrystalGSD]

LOL what is exercise.

Just joking, but Crystal is a pretty low energy dog. I mean we will walk to the dog park once every few weeks, but not including like playing tug or fetch inside, almost none.

 

[Jadex]

An average of 1-2 hours, but some days we don't do anything at all. It depends. In the winter most of their exercise is chasing each other in the yard.

 

[*blackrose]

BUT, I will say that since bringing Skill home we have increased daily exercise for all the dogs, and I didn't realize how under-exercised Siri was before. Many of her behaviors that I didn't like very much which I attributed to her "terrier"ness have disappeared or greatly reduced.

Oh, yes, definitely I know a very significant portion of Abrams' behaviors that drive me up the wall are because he's underexercised. But, they don't drive me nuts enough to motivate me to go walk or run 2-3 miles when I get home from an 11 hour day of standing at work, unfortunately. So I just deal with it. Instead I just throw a ball all evening. Not ideal by any means, but my knees and hip can't take working and exercise at the same time. Got home from work today and had to pop 600mg ibuprofen to bring the pain in my hip to a faint throb. Really need to go have rads done, but boo, doctors. :/

I need to start walking him on my off days again.

 

[houlahoops]

The nice thing about being a wildlife biologist is that I come home from work already in "outside" mode, and looking forward to some play time with my buddy! On good weekdays, we do about an hour of fetch/hard play before I leave for work, plus another 2 hours of off-leash hiking when I get home. If I've had a rough day (...like last week when I worked two fifteen hour days and a ten hour day in a row), that last 2-hour session gets turned into a leash walk of the same duration.

Weekends we do about twice that! Usually one intense day (6+ hours of hiking) and a recovery day (for me, not her haha), which is mostly dog-park play.

 

[JacksonsMom]

It's really inconsistent these days. When he was younger, I was VERY adamant that he got a certain amount and now I'm just like... meh we will when we will. Some days he'll spends hours upon hours outside and other days he will literally just get out to pee and poop. As a pet sitter too, I'm all over the place during the day so sometimes I'm in and out, sometimes I bring him with me (sometimes it's easier NOT to) so he gets a lot of different exposure to new dogs, new houses and parks, car rides, etc. Also bring him along a lot with me to outdoor restaurants with me in the spring and summer. He travels with me back and forth between my house and my dads house, where we spent a lot of our time in the summer. I would say he gets out more now in the summer because he's always swimming and running around my dads backyard.