How should you walk your dog dog?
Walking the dog is one of the main obligations we have as owners. In the street it makes its needs, it entertains smelling aromas of all kinds, interacts with people, with other dogs and exercises.
How long is your dog advisable
A healthy dog should walk at least one hour a day, although nothing happens if we walked more. In fact, it is best to go out whenever we can and all the time as possible.
These sixty minutes of walking daily are an estimate, so that nothing happens if one day we leave only forty because we do not have time for more, but we must try to be out at least an hour every day.
How many times walk to a puppy
Puppies are one of the special cases regarding the walk, since when they are small we must leave more times and less time, which is the opposite that is recommended in the case of adults.
So, With the puppies you have to start going to the street about five times a day (Better take it to where they don't go adult dogs until we finish vaccinating them) and in very short periods of only a few minutes.
There is a reason that explains why you have to leave so much and are not able to control. Therefore, they will do their needs inside the house, so that as long as we get used to them, you have to get them more times.
As for time, you have to be very careful. If we force you to exercise too much, they can suffer from bone problems when they reach adulthood.
How many times walk an adult dog
As the puppy grows and when we already consider that the dog is an adult, the walks can be reduced in quantity and increase in time.
It is always said that you have to leave at least three times a day with an adult dog, Some walks that should last 20 minutes as little whenever possible, although this is only orient.
In this way, if for work or other obligations the daytime walks are very short, we will compensate it at night when we can have more time.
The daily hour is just an estimate, since there is no problem in getting two if possible. In addition, here you have to take into account the race, because it is not the same to walk with a Chihuahua than with a farmer, since the exercise needs are very different.
How many times walk an old dog
Another special case is that of elderly dogs, whose walks will look a lot like those of the puppies.
When a dog arrives at the Senectud there is a time when we see that gradual changes occur, so that It will suffice us to walk a little more slowly, without the need to shorten the distances.
However, with the passing of the months we must completely change the way in which we carry out the walks, because we notice how the deterioration advances at high speed affecting the capabilities of our best friend.
It is at this time when we introduce changes, walking about five times a day, shortening the distances a lot And the rhythm.
The reason is that they no longer endure the pee as before (if we do not take them often they will urinate at home) and that on many occasions you have to give them diuretics for the heart, so that they urinate much more and need to leave often.
Tips for walking your dog
Walking your dog is very important. Therefore, we must follow a series of guidelines or standards in order to be something pleasant for both for him and us.
You have to walk with many dogs since the animal is very young
Once the puppy has fulfilled the vaccination calendar, you have to take it to a place where dogs get out of walking, always asking the quietest in order to begin to socialize.
If we do this, the puppy will become a balanced adult who can walk with any dog, without aggressiveness or fights.
Beware of hotter hours
At the end of spring the heat is already suffocating in Spain, so you have to be very careful when we are going to walk, avoiding the central hours of the day and displacing the outputs to the freshest, which are usually the first and last of the day.
This care must be taken in the case of puppies, elderly dogs and brachicéfalos such as boxer or carlinos, which because of the shape of their head breathe worse.
We must always keep in mind, because if we forget the animal, it can suffer a heat stroke that takes it to death.
We avoid wet areas
In many places there are water courses such as rivers and streams, which invite relaxation and are fresh sites, but that are usually crowded with mosquitoes when we go for a walk.
In addition to the discomfort of bites, Mosquitoes transmit leishmaniasis to dogs (also to us), so it is convenient to stay away from the areas where there are many insects of this type.
We move away from cars
The greatest danger we face every time we go out with a dog for a walk is that a car hit it.
In this way, you have to do your best to remain away from cars, leaving remote areas or going to parks with dog spaces, in which there is a fence that separates them from other users and cars.
You have to change route from time to time
The routines are part of our life, so little by little and almost without realizing we will be walking every day along the same route.
This is not bad, but the truth is that Dogs love to explore new places, face different odors, etc., so that they will appreciate that we make an itinerary change.
You do not have to take the car and go to the mountains, but it will be enough to go through other streets, enter another park or leave through another area of the city.
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