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 Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 4:26 pm Post subject:  Walkies |
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HI All, My Poppy is now nearly 21 weeks old and we normally walk her for 30 mins in the morning and also at night, and then she is in and out the garden through the day time.
What i want to know (being a new puppy owner) is how much exercise she should be getting, am i walking her too much, too less as she always seems to want more no matter how much she gets 
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| Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
well its supposed to be 5 mins lead walking per month. So she's just over 5 months so 25mins a day. Doesn't include running about off lead though.
Sure you will get more replies from more experienced peeps.
So complicated all this walking lol x
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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Debpat... I think somewhere along the line this 5 minute guide is getting mixed up in folks minds. It certainly DOES include freerunning offlead on a WALK... but what it doesn't include is wandering around the house and garden.
The point of the guide is to say 'OK, when your dog is on a lead or on a walk offlead it is GOING to be on the go'. Its called 'enforced exercise'. Although offlead you aren't 'enforcing' anything the dogs adrenaline and thirst for learning will make it dash and plod here and there, not really listening to its natural call to rest or crash out for a while.
Where as mouching around at home and in the garden, nothing is enforced, he will lay dwn with a stick and chew at it, pick at some grass, have a kip half watching the birds, or laze on the kitchen floor etc etc... so nothing enforced, he is listening to himself and calling his own shots.
Does that make sense now Deb?
So Popadoodle, to answer alongside Deb your first question, *if* you decide to be 'guided' by the 5 minute rule (and it IS a guide, just a guide not a big black line....) For each month old a dog is, it can have 5 mins of 'enforced' exercise.... So at 21 weeks and so 5 months of age, as Deb says 25 mins a day is the guides suggestion.
However you can tweek this as you please really. However two half hour walks are probably stretching the boundaries of what is wise for good long term muscle and joint health. remember the thing being that to be honest you COULD charge a dog about for two hours a day from 8 weeks old, and chances are, if GENETICALLY there isn't a problem lurking with the joints etc, it won't CAUSE one to start. But if there is less than good genetic helath there lurking, and you can't know, its wise to err on the side of caution till the dog is older, muscled up and able to support any joints with lurking problems by way of tone and strength of tendons and muscles.
I hope that make sense?
Di
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| Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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Agree very much with Di about including off lead exercise, though I know others don't. Never really understood why though, young dogs especially cover more distance off lead with the running and playing they do.
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