Exercising Dogs

Exercising dogs is one of life's true pleasures, as not only does your dog get the exercise he needs, so does his owner! My past post was all about Feeding Dogs, which is a pretty important thing to do, unless you want your dog to get hungry!

Well, exercising dogs is no great brain teaser. Depending upon what kind of dog you have, they'll either need some, or a load of it. I guess if you take German Shepherds as an example of a breed that not just likes, but needs a load of exercise, then you're looking at walking three times a day and you need some big open space where he can run without a leash to get the max benefit.

That's one extreme, but not all dogs need that much. Smaller dogs generally can get away with less as long as you have a big back yard where they can run up and down or chase a ball or something. They'll be fine with that. If you live in an apartment, well, guess you got your work cut out for you, cause you're gonna have to get physical and make friends with your local streets and parks buddy!

Little yappy handbag dogs are usually the easiest of all to keep, but they still need to go out to do their business and often you'll find they like to run a whole load more than you ever thought! I got friends with Yorkies that can keep going for as long as my German Shepherds Mick and Ben, and they don't never seem to wanna stop! So if you think you can keep even little guys that cooped up in an apartment all day, think again!

Ok, that's all for now, I got two guys here who have a date with a big open space and they's sitting right here waiting for me to move my ass!

See ya!

Thomas