Be Honest: How Much Exercise Does Your Corgi Get?
I'm curious what the exercise regime for your corgi(s) is on the average day? Leash walking? Off-leash walking? Fetch? Laser? Tug? Playmates?
Has it changed as they've aged? How do they act if you skip a day or two?
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Permalink Reply by Beth on
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Rebecca and Jane, thank you. Compared to many people we know, we do a lot with our dogs, but whenever I read dog-owner books, I always feel a little guilty. :-(
We love all our furkids and they seem very happy. They certainly make US smile!
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Permalink Reply by Rebecca Marie O'Bryan on
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your welcome Beth:) but just think, as long as they are happy then never mind the book:) lol thats what really counts
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Permalink Reply by Carla on
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Don't feel bad, Beth. One of the reasons I asked was because I just finished my masters program, and will probably be entering the workforce full-time in the next few months.
As it stands right now, I work 3 part-time jobs, all of which are very flexible and enable me to do the work at the pace I please, when and where I see fit. For Casey, this means we go to the dogpark almost daily for an hour in the morning with a group of similar aged/energy level dogs (we walk a trail at the park with a group of 3 other dog owners/dogs). Then we come home and she naps while I do some work. Then, we go out again in the afternoon for 20 minutes of leash walking followed by soccer ball herding in the backyard. Then, in the evenings she usually gets some fetch time and another leash walk (I’m an all business leash-walker. We stop once or twice to potty, and other than that we keep a brisk pace. I hate dawdling, lol).
Because of my schedule, she gets between 1 1/2 and 2 1/2 hours of exercise a day (which is why we bought a puppy when I was doing my Masters - because I knew I could be home with her and offer her the attention she needed).
I posed the question because I wanted to know how others managed their dogs with their lifestyle. Casey will most certainly not be getting an hour long walk at the dog park every morning once I'm working full-time. Right now, on the days I have to go in to work (one day a week) she gets a brisk 10 minute walk followed by 10 minutes of in-house fetch in the mornings. After work, she goes out for 30-45 minutes with my husband, and after dinner she has another brisk 10 minute walk and some fetch. I suspect that, realistically, that will gradually become a brisk 10 minute walk in the morning, 20-30 minutes after work, and another 10 minutes after dinner once I've been working full-time for a while (my husband already works M-F 8-4:30).
My hope is that she’ll calm down somewhat over the next 6-8 months (she’s 16 months old right now) and the reduction in overall daily exercise will not affect her terribly.
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When Jack was young, he would spend the entire night playing if we did not have a very very long walk. Now, he is pretty good and will relax for periods of time, but he's still a higher-energy dog.
Mine both get a short walk in the morning, the long walk after work, and then one or two short potty-walks in the later evening. Jack will bring us balls to throw when it's cool out, and we will do that in the evening several times in between other things.
In the summer, both of mine just lay around a lot.
I do have two, though, and if they are feeling energetic they will frap and chase and wrestle a couple times a day.
But yes, do expect her exercise needs to drop as she hits two or three. Jack is busy around the house with what he gets, but not annoyingly so. To be fair, even if we go on a three-hour hike, when we get home he will nap for a half hour and then he's dropping tennis balls at me again. :-) He is three-and-a-half.
Maddie will be calm inside on her own, but if Jack is running she will run after him, barking--- an annoying habit that we have given up on breaking. She is 6.
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I think Casey's energy level is similar to Jack's. She'll stop moving only if I make her do so (ie - put her in her crate), but if given the chance, she is not a couch potato. Her life is spent waiting around for more playtime/walking/running. I've only successfully tired her out once, and it took a hot summer day and a 2 1/2 hour hike to do it. And after a nap, she was back up and ready to go (I, of course, was not).
I'm not foolish enough to think that I can tire her out completely on a daily basis (I don't have that kind of time even now!), but I'm hoping that what I can offer her is enough to keep her boredom and destruction at bay, particularly when I'm no longer able to go out with her whenever she needs it, as I am now.
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Permalink Reply by Jennifer Markley on
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Seanna gets at least a 30 minute walk 5 days a week now, plus she gets usually 3 all out play times with her sister Sage. (It depends on their mood...), but there play time is all out chase through the house, into the back yard, and back and forth. It usually lasts 10-45 minutes. Then at night we have a somewhat calm play time, usually tug of war, etc....
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Permalink Reply by Jane on
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During a normal work day the boys get usually get ~20 minutes of playing in the morning before I go to work, ~45 minutes of playing/ball throwing during my lunch, and then a ~30 minute walk at night. When we're home in the evenings they run around and wrestle like crazy most of the time; our yard is fenced so they go outside to play quite a bit too. On the weekends we might go to the dog park or a walking trail depending on the weather.
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Permalink Reply by John Wolff on
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Couch potatoes. I feel so guilty. These farm dogs imprisoned in our tiny house.
Two 45-60 min leash walks. Play in our small yard. As often as possible, we poach off-leash illegally at the school playground, playing soccer until they're winded and panting; this is the best exercise they get. The aerobic running is important.
No wonder they go gaga when I come home; the walk is the high point of a dog's day.
I don't get enough exercise anymore either -- all the time I used to spend running/working out is now spent with my owners.
I have a dedicated fanny-pack with all the dog gear: bags, LED headlamp, treats, garbage bag for picking up trash (good idea; neighbors notice this, builds tolerance of dogs). Rain, snow, gloom of night, we go.
Yeah, I need to rent-a-kid to play with our dogs.
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Permalink Reply by Jane Christensen on
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@ John...I think all dogs should get to experience the mountain life like yours do!!!!! Such poor deprived dogs...hehe!
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Permalink Reply by Bev Levy on
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I am fortunate to be home with mine but we still tend to have a routine on weekdays of a half to 45 min walk in the am and one in the pm. On weekends we do about an hour once or twice a day depending on other things going on. When Sparty was young I took him on walks much more frequently because he was so high energy. He wpould take his tennis ball and drop it down the stairs so he could chase it if he couldn't get us to toss it anymore. Now days he has slowed down a lot and is happy with whatever walks or exsercise we want. Izzy has always been a couch potato even as a puppy and is very happy even if there are no walks as long as someone pets her. One of the nice things about them is that after they mature with their short legs 15 minutes is still a walk! We go in all kinds of weather but that is probably more me than them.
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Permalink Reply by Alex on
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30-1hr of walking.running in the park right when I get home. We play fetch/tug/hide n seek for around 1 hour before bed time.
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Permalink Reply by Haley Merlot on
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Ours gets 2-3 hour walks every day, and trips to the park every other day.
Problem is... Donny never gets tired, but if we miss even an afternoon of activity, he gets annoying. Barking at every sound, chasing the cat, pretending to bite my hands and then running away, obsessively biting his feet. And this is after half a day! With his standard daily 2+ hour walk, plus attention, playtime, and training exercises throughout the day (SO is unemployed) you'd think he'd be tired, but he isn't. Just politer.
I have to keep telling myself that he's only 8 months old and it will get better. We don't use dogparks because they're overcrowded with untrained, aggressive dogs, and Donovan comes home riled up. Daycare is wonderful, but he's outgrown the puppy price and I can't afford to pay $50 a day. So... exercise is all on us. I often tell my boyfriend that the only positive aspect to losing his job is that he gets to spend his day with Donny.
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