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Permies Poll: Do you walk your dog regularly?

Timothy Norton

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I know folks have different living arrangements and an idea struck me. Do you traditionally walk your dog(s)?

If not, how do they get their energy out?

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Timothy Norton

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I do not have the acreage/location to let my dogs run around untethered. My plott hound is a homebody and does not like to be walked on a leash. We will take walks around the property to check out her favorite spots but she is content to not go on long walks. Her weight/health have been fantastic so I let let my sleeping dog lie.

My dachshund however is the polar opposite! She will refuse to come inside the house after her and her sister go around the backyard and insists that we go out into the world to explore. We will take a walk through the village at least once a day so she can check out the hot spots to sniff.

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Our dog is not trust worthy enough to not be on a leash.

If our dog was not on a leash she would go looking for our daughter who does not live here.

I take her out about once every hour or when I remember to do so.

We used to do long walks though in 2020 when I developed a balance problem that was the end of that.

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Spaniels & a wolfhound - we have plenty of land for them to roam, but it's not fenced in, and we have too many predators, and are only 1/2 mile by road & 1/4 mile as the crow flies, from a 55mph road. Needless to say, our girls are never off-lead. We don't do long walks, but we do frequent ones.

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my dog also cannot be outside our yard without a leash.
He can open the door and go in and out into the front yard by himself to relieve himself, drink water, and occasionally scare off people putting things in my mailbox, but he prefers to stay in my office with me most of the time.
The days he does not go to dog school/daycare I take him for a long walk. Days when it's pouring or work doesn't permit, I'll try to do a training session inside the house instead. Last year I had a few months when I couldn't use my hand and so we didn't go out for walks, and he was fine.
I learned the hard way with this dog, more physical activity makes him more anxious. There was a time we were walking 10k+ a day to "tire him out," but I learned that with a Belgian Malinois this is a losing game....

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My dog is a yard guard, she spends most of the night running around barking to keep the coyotes away. She likes walks and sometimes I go for walks and take her, but she spends enough energy patrolling the farm.

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An assumption I am making also is that of course I take my dogs out to go to the bathroom. While it is technically the act of walking, I think the intent is different. They go out, go do their thing, and come back inside. When we go for a walk, it is a leisurely stroll where there is a balance of sniffing and traveling.

I'm sure this is different than how other people go about things, but that is what works where I live with my particular set of dogs.

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I powerwalk my dogs at least a mile per day during the week and then 3-4 miles per day on the weekend, always on trails in the state park behind my house-summer lake swimming included. they are also let out supervised to run free on our two acres...and also have a large penned area they spend the rest of their outside time in.
I always try to remember that I am their guardian AND their world is only as big as I can make it and so always try to enrich their lives in all ways.

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