thaim

usually in the morning i will play with deagle on the flirt pole or spring pole for about 30 min a day. and i will usually walk him for about an hour every second day. how often and how long do you guys train ur dogs?i would like to know how you guys keep your dogs so fit and trimmed looking

MY MIKADO

Vendetta is still younge so we only work on obedience right now but when I had my Chalice girl I would let her run for an hour or so ( I have over 7 acres) then I would play fetch with her plus in the warmer months we would go swimming everyother day. My girl has boundles energy that what ever I did with her was never enough. Mikado on the other hand had a week heart so 15-20 min of play time was enough for him.

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smith family kennels

we pull drag weight, run on treadmill, go for walks, and work on a spring pole. alternating. You see a dogs body is kind of like yours. If you walk a mile everyday your body gets use to it and it is no longer beneifical to you but if you were to alternate with other things like jogging, swimming, lifting weights your body would go whooo wait a min. its not use to the routine and it causes you to strain which builds muscles and endurance. Same with dog. If you walk your dog every other day and work on a flirt pole your dogs body is use to it. Mix it up alittle bit make him work those muscles. Start jogging or dog some drag weight. Take him swimming etc. and alternate it or just make it a suprise on what your going to do with him that day. doing the same routine doesn't do anything cause the body eventually gets use to it just like getting up to go to work everyday or going to bed at the same time everynight.

jeep lex

lexi gets a good 30min-2hr walk a day depending on the weather and how im feeling. she also gets several 5 min walks through the course of the day to handle her business i live in nyc so no backyard time it kinda sucks for that reason.

LiiL_L0cz_Red_N0se

ahh kenya is still young so i dont have to work as hard but i do get her nice and tired

every morning, her and chyna go outside and exlpore and play in the yar with each other for about 30min-1hr. back door is always open so they run in and out of the house as the please. every evening aroudn 5pm, we play ont he flirt pole for a good 30 min, or until their tunges ae just flappin in the wind lol. thena around 8 we go for our evening walk. anywhere from 1mile to 3miles, depending if i am working out that night or not lol..
kenya is involved in shutzhound once a week on wed so around 6 her and i go to that and are there for a good hour and ahalf. chyna stays home with her favorte person(my husband) and they usually spend some quality time and take a nice long walk

on the weekends, we go hiking. kenya gets off leassh freedom to explore and chyna stays with mama. we hike for a good 4hours just enjoying the weather, then when we reach the top of the mountain, we play some ball .

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wheezie

wake up, take dogs out to pee and po, i eat some food while i watch them outside, they some in and eat some food. do some obedience trainings, build the pups prey drive a little. then its off to work , come home... and play it buy ear.... the up is to young to do any conditining and ricos hips are bad so theres not a whole lot of heavy duty exercise, i might practce wp with pup or just build the pups drive up and work on his nerves and socialization.

things will be much differnt when the time will come to seperate them.

once the pup is old enough to condition that is when the fun really begins.

thaim

man i wish i had a fenced yard =( im jealous of those who all have nice big back yards haha i always have to have a leash on him and sometimes i want him to just run around FREEEEEEEEEEE haha

jeep lex

i feel your pain

thaim

seems that no one else would like to share their "secrets" =P

desertracer

At home, get up 30 minute to 45 minute walk and at night about 45 to 50 minute walk. During the day it varies between fetch for a few hours, bike ride or along side a skateboard. Let him and my golden play, they can do that for hours. Tug of war.

At the river, we get up at like 6:15 to 6:30 to go for a 30 to 45 minute walk. It starts getting hot up there fast, during summer we get up to 120 degrees and that hot ground hurts and ruins paws. Then during the day he swims for maybe 3 or so hours. He plays with my golden on our grass and plays fetch, the heat helps wear them both down. At night he gets a 30 minute walk and a night time swim for about an hour