Advice on working full time

Hi everyone,

Just wonder any of you leave your staffy at home while working full time? How do you arrange dog walks during day when you are away? Do you think they are happy to be alone most of the day? Is it better if they have company (i.e. another playmate). How much do you pay for dog walking service?

Many thanks in advance,

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Hi and welcome from us and Suki. It all really depends on the dog. If it is still a pup I would recommend a dog walker or friend come over and keep him exercised. They are okay alone if they are given the time to slowly adapt and build up to it and are exercised properly before being left.

We leave Suki for 6-8 hours at a time and she is quite happy as long as she is walked and feed ahead of time. When I've left mine any longer than that I've always had someone pop in and take them for a walk.

Hi & welcome.

taggie wrote:How do you arrange dog walks during day when you are away?

I don't personally leave my dog at home because I'm lucky enough to be able to take him with me, but there are members here who don't have that luxury! Most people ask a friend or relative to come in at least once during the day to walk the dog and play with it, but some pay for a professional dog walker. One of our Admin staff, Janey, has a very good working arrangement with a dog walker & no doubt she'll be able to tell you roughly what the cost is.

taggie wrote: Do you think they are happy to be alone most of the day? Is it better if they have company (i.e. another playmate).

Of course they would much rather have company 24 hours a day, but this isn't always possible. As to a companion, yours looks, from your avatar, to be a pup? If that's the case, then I'd wait to get another dog until yours is probably around 18 months/2 years old - otherwise you could come home to your house ripped to shreds from an over enthusiastic playtime!

If yours is a pup, then be prepared for him/her to have accidents if they are left for more than a couple of hours at a time.

Benson (14weeks) is left alone but with me working full time, bf working shifts and parents working part time, his only usually on his own for about 3 hours a day if everyone is at work, so not everyday. But he seems fine he just catches up on his sleep

Lola is typically left for around five hours before I pop home at lunch, then a couple of hours in the afternoon. Luckily this is only three days a week most weeks. The longest I've ever left her before someone came to let her out was 6 hours, and I always plan my time, if she's at home by herself, around this figure (I'm sure she'd be fine for longer periods, all she does is sleep on her chair in the conservatory in a "very unladylike fashion" one of the neighbours has informed me )

Thanks for all your replies, I find it very helpful. My staff is 1.5 years old. He has a lot of energy.

Do you have a dog flap? Do you think they are good idea?

I used to have one, but my garden in those days was ultra secure! If you have a secure garden & the neighbourhood's a good one, then they can be a good idea.

A dog flap shouldn't be used as a way of not walking the dog though.

If I have to go to the office, I drop Jellybean off at a dog sitter for £14 per day, and a dog walker would be £10 per visit, when she's ready to be left alone most of the day. As she's only just over 7 months old we have left her about 4 or 5 hours, confined to one room with her crate and bed in it if she wants to crash, along with a bunch of stuff to chew, having sufficiently bitter appled the heck out of the stuff she is NOT allowed to chew. Usually we come home to a sleepy puppy curled up in her crate or bed, of course happy to see us but usually just fine otherwise.

Hiya, I work full time and either my mum/friend/walker has her. I am lucky with my walker, its £10 p/h or £15 for 2, but my walker loves her and keeps her for the day The only thing I will say with regs to walkers, make sure they are registered/crb checked (I think thats it lol) and also some walkers will not take bull breeds, sad but true Xx

Hope you get sorted and find the best solution , my wife is at home all day and I work from home at leas 1/3 of my time so we are very lucky

and hello and welcome to the forum from me and the kids

for the first 9 months of romeo's life he was with me full time all the time, even at work, but at 10 months i started leaving him at home while i was a work and very slowly i let it get longer and longer. now he stays between 6-8 hours, any longer and i have a friend pop by, at least so he can pee since we live in an apartment

Thanks again for the replies, it's been really helpful. I am currently a stay at home mum so my dog is getting plenty of walks and attention from me and my kids I know giving him up will not be an option as all of us love Peso so much!

I am thinking more for the future when my children are a bit older (don't think it is too far from now!)

Many thanks!