 Re: Puppy exercise in winter
[Re: Jeff_Marshall ]
#120177 - 12/08/2006 11:25 AM |
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Well thanks for the FLOOD of replies. Looks like a few more layers are going on.
Amber, you are correct on the remote, but even 4 wheel drive and 7 inch tires don't have a prayer in 11 inches of snow  
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Re: Puppy exercise in winter
[Re: Angela Burrell ]
#120179 - 12/08/2006 11:28 AM |
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Ya know, a good coat should be on the list of required gear along with a good leash! Once you get out there and get moving it's not so bad, like jumping into a cold swimming pool. The only time I am not out there is in a lightning storm. I have found a good squeeker is the ticket for those days. I mean my girl is sleeping all day waiting for play time while I am burning myself out at work..LOL. "Quiting Time" isn't for two more hours after I get home! I think you should consider yourself lucky.. you only have the energy and exercise requirement of a puppy to work with for this season.. just wait until next year!!  Best of luck to ya..
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Re: Puppy exercise in winter
[Re: Brad . Martin ]
#120181 - 12/08/2006 11:34 AM |
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Jeff
Where did you get this fast remote car and where can I get one. I have two high drive dogs that would probably love this. (we have, oh, less than 1/2 inch of snow). You say your dogs can't catch it?
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Re: Puppy exercise in winter
[Re: Angela Burrell ]
#120185 - 12/08/2006 11:49 AM |
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In Ceasar Millan's book, he suggests training your dog to walk on a treadmill. Has anyone tried this? I'm thinking about it. I take my dog for a 30 minute walk just about every day, as much for me as for him, and as the weather has gotten wetter and colder I've been thinking about getting either a treadmill or an elliptical trainer for myself. If it really is possible to train a dog to use a treadmill, that would affect my decision.
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Re: Puppy exercise in winter
[Re: Brad . Martin ]
#120195 - 12/08/2006 12:23 PM |
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Ya know, a good coat should be on the list of required gear along with a good leash! Once you get out there and get moving it's not so bad, like jumping into a cold swimming pool. The only time I am not out there is in a lightning storm. I have found a good squeeker is the ticket for those days. I mean my girl is sleeping all day waiting for play time while I am burning myself out at work..LOL. "Quiting Time" isn't for two more hours after I get home! I think you should consider yourself lucky.. you only have the energy and exercise requirement of a puppy to work with for this season.. just wait until next year!! Best of luck to ya..
Well, I resisted this suggestion for a while...... and it's not the perfect indoor game for a very high-drive dog ..... and you have to be a strong leader to keep it under control (and push the furniture back).
http://www.leerburg.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Board=15&Number=93037&Searchpage=1&Main=10135&Words=%26quot%3Bfishing%26quot%3B+Connie+Sutherland&topic=0&Search=true#Post93037
We do dog-fishing in the biggest room when it's really really pouring enough to cut the walks to a minimum.
This is not a sedate game, and you might try a short version in a carpeted hallway first to see if you can control the hi-jinks.
P.S. And it does not take the place of walks, IMO, because I use walks for pack-structure reinforcement.
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[Re: Connie Sutherland ]
#120198 - 12/08/2006 12:33 PM |
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P.P.S. No indoor game takes the place of walks for pet dogs, IMO. I might cut the walks short when I'm really soaked, adding an indoor game, but I never skip the walks.
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[Re: Connie Sutherland ]
#120205 - 12/08/2006 12:56 PM |
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Hi Rich,
Some professional show handlers use treadmills to "condition" their dogs. Unless you have a small dog, though, they cannot stride comfortably on a human treadmill. You need to buy a dog treadmill which can cost up to a thousand dollars.
Although, they wouldn't take the place of a real walk because your dog can't get the advantage of different surfaces, interesting smells, and his pack leader!
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[Re: Connie Sutherland ]
#120206 - 12/08/2006 12:57 PM |
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you are all better men/women than i am. and you are making me very glad i did not choose a super-high energy breed.
we go for a half-hour leash walk in the neighborhood in the late afternoon, when it finally is as warm as it's going to get for the day, and we play tug-of-war in the morning. but if the weather is really bad, we ain't goin' nowhere. he can run around out in the yard, and i'll toss him snowballs from the back porch, but i do not go out on dog walks in really severe weather. nope.
hey, this is montana, and it gets very cold, and very dark very early this time of year. we have a lot of days when the weatherman tells us to just stay indoors.
the OP is illustrating the main reason i have never gotten a winter puppy, and i doubt i ever will.
sorry i can't be of more help. i do think the treadmill is a great idea, and if i did have a high energy dog, i think that's the solution i would choose for really bad weather days.
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Re: Puppy exercise in winter
[Re: Angela Burrell ]
#120209 - 12/08/2006 01:28 PM |
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Thanks for the information Angela. Personally, I don't like using treadmills or exercise bikes. 30 minutes on a machine seems longer and like work to me, whereas the walk is very pleasant. My wife and I usually take the dog out on the walk together and all three of us enjoy the time together. I was just looking for a foul weather alternative to walking.
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[Re: Cindy Easton Rhodes ]
#120213 - 12/08/2006 01:36 PM |
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Cindy's right, as well as others who said to brave the cold. We used to have a high energy maniac black lab/weimaraner/shorthaired pointer mix when we lived in the mountains in CA. My husband and son would take her with them into the forest to get firewood, Christmas trees, and to just plain walk in the snow. I stayed home by the woodburning stove and made stews and pies and bread 
But if all goes as I would like, I may be moving north to Wyoming or Montana and realize that with my high energy maniac GSD there would be no way I could give him only small romps in the winter. He goes nuts when he only has one exercise session a day. He's 5 months old and only getting more fit and ready to take on the world, unlike when he used to get tired when younger. I have this visual where I'll dress up like the younger brother on the movie "A Christmas Story", who couldn't move for all the layers on him.
Maybe I'll get a snowmobile and have him chase me! That ought to tucker him out.
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