Routine

Hello everyone, how does your routine go? i.e feeding times, walking times etc.

Cheers Greg

Rocky has brekky at 8am, then out for a walk at about 10am until 11am. He then has another walk at 3pm until 4pm, then dinner at 5pm. Another walk at 7pm until 7.30pm then supper at 9pm then bedtime. Times are give or take half an hour either way.

Cheers Kathy, do ya just feed light for supper?

He has about half the usual quantity of his food which is Barking Heads TLC

Mine's a bit flexible.

Monday, Wednesday & Friday...
7.00am Light breakfast.
8.15am walk to work.
12.30pm walk home from work.

Tuesday & Thursday...
7.30am Long walk (at least an hour, usually)
10.00am Light breakfast

Saturday & Sunday...
Long walk as soon as I get up (anything from 8am to 10am)
Then an hour or so later, light breakfast.

Every day...
3.00pm Long walk (at least an hour)
5.30pm - 7pm Evening meal
10pm - 1am (depending what time I go to bed) short walk (about half an hour)

Cheers that's great info, my main worry was whether to do food before exercise or vice versa, but looking at both routines an hours rest before exercise seems a normal thing.

It is recommended to have an hour after feeding before exercise to avoid (or cut down the risk of ) bloat

Cheers Dave, is your routine much different to the other 2?

Fez wrote:Cheers that's great info, my main worry was whether to do food before exercise or vice versa, but looking at both routines an hours rest before exercise seems a normal thing.

I would rather walk before feeding, leaving at least an hour after the walk before food. Always seems to me like 'out with the old & in with the new'! If you exercise after food, it's difficult to say whether or not the food has been sufficiently digested to avoid stomach problems like bloat.

Caryll wrote:

Fez wrote:Cheers that's great info, my main worry was whether to do food before exercise or vice versa, but looking at both routines an hours rest before exercise seems a normal thing.

I would rather walk before feeding, leaving at least an hour after the walk before food. Always seems to me like 'out with the old & in with the new'! If you exercise after food, it's difficult to say whether or not the food has been sufficiently digested to avoid stomach problems like bloat.

I think I would prefer to exercise before food, If the dog is a little on the hungrier side it will help with training too?

Yes, it often helps, especially if you have some nice, tasty training treats to hand!

am learning haha

0600 breakfast
0700-0900 play at dog park and walk
1200 lunch
1500-1600 walk
1700 dinner
1800 tug of war
2200 bed time

Mine are always walked before they're fed as I think it's better that way, plus one of mine won't eat his breakfast if he's not been walked first.

The only meal Rocky has before his walk is his breakfast as we have found he can be a bit cranky in the mornings if he goes out without it. A bit like my husband really, very cranky if not fed at appropriate time

memphis

10-11 walk
12.30 lunch dry food
3.30 45min walk to and from school
4.30-5.30 nappy time lol
7.30 tea raw tripe or beef skirt
10.30 30-45 walk

Don't Memphis have any brekki then wazza?

no he never been a brekie eater so dont bother now

Monday to Friday
0730 - Walk (20 minutes)
0830 - Food
1300 - Walk (20 minutes)
1400 - Food
1800/1900 - Walk (20 minutes)
2000 - Food

Saturday/Sunday (because I'm not at work the routine is slightly different)
0800 - Food
1000 - Walk (20 minutes)
1400 - Food
1600 - Walk (20 minutes)
2000 - Food
2100 - Walk (20 minutes)
(sometimes two walks are substituted for trip to a park (which completely tires him out)

Cheers guys

kathytake2 wrote: A bit like my husband really, very cranky if not fed at appropriate time

Men! They are so difficult to train!

7.00 brkkie

9.00 walk about 20 mins

then has a few biscurts at 12

then at 15.00 he goes for a hour walk which tries him out

then 19.00 has dinner

22.00 goes for walk about 20 mins

play though out the day as he only 11 weeks old

mrandmrsspeedy121 wrote:
then at 15.00 he goes for a hour walk which tries him out

Hour walk for an 11 week old? Isn't that a bit much?

he loves it in our arms some of the way but walks most of it

goldie87 wrote:

mrandmrsspeedy121 wrote:
then at 15.00 he goes for a hour walk which tries him out

Hour walk for an 11 week old? Isn't that a bit much?

I think it depends. I think Caryll said to me or someone before that it's only the actual walking continuously that is 5 mins per month. I.E:walking 10 mins to the park. But then you can let them play wherever you go, for how long you want as long as they get to rest whenever they want.

So really yeah I suppose you could walk them for an hr because you aren't constantly 'walking'. However personally I wouldn't do it too often just because I'm a worry wart and would worry about Saffys legs aching and there's no way I'm gonna keep carrying her now she's blooming heavy!

no routine here they are fed only the once a day generally late afternoon, they get at least 2 walks a day, if i'm on nights then i go at 6 when i get home then late evening. If i'm off i like to go midday and about 3am but thats about it really

ella wrote:no routine here they are fed only the once a day generally late afternoon, they get at least 2 walks a day, if i'm on nights then i go at 6 when i get home then late evening. If i'm off i like to go midday and about 3am but thats about it really

Walk before work about 20 mins
Joint treat

Walk when we get back from work
Dinner any time between 7pm and 8.30pm after we eat

Quick toilet walk about 15 mins before bed

Weekends walked about 4-5 times a day depending in how much they nag