Exercise time & play time for your golden.

[goldenlook]

How much exercise & play time do your golden have daily?
Thanks.

[Maggie and Me]

Maggie is nearly 7 months old. She is out of her crate nearly all day because I work from home. She sleeps 2 or 3 hours a day and the rest is play time! She loves being out in the yard in the snow which is great exercise for her. Lots of fetch and training, too. For exercise, I take her for 2 5 - 10 minutes walks a day to practice polite leash walking and also take her to the dog park 3 times a week for about 45 minutes (I live in WI and that's all I can take :) ).
In my eyes, a tired puppy is a good puppy!

[Peggy]

Murphy is six months old. He gets a 15 minute walk with me when I get home, followed by his supper, and then another 15 minute walk when my husband gets home. We walk on our property, so it is hilly and snow covered, very good exercise, I think.

Then, I play fetch with him for about 10-15 minutes, with his ball, and then my husband plays other games with him for about the same amount of time. On the weekends, he does whatever we do, including following me around as I vacuum! But usually he is outside with my husband, following him around and he is worn out by Monday AM!!

He will start another obedience class in February, and once he's older I want to get him into agility as well.

[Riley Puppy]

Riley is 5 months old. I take her to the dog park 3 or 4 times a week. And take her on a 1/2 hour walk every night. She loves going on walks!! banana

[lvngold]

Beau is 8 mos. We work during the day but daughter is often home. Before I leave for work I take Beau out and train/play for about 20 mins. We work on our obedience, sit/stays, recalls, tricks, etc or we play fetch or frisbee. This morning was frisbee. It was funny this morning because the frisbee landed in the mulch bed and he could not get it turned over so he could get his mouth on it. I thought he was going to dig to China before he got it picked up.
Beau also has the lab next door and he gets plenty of exercise playing with Duke. In the afternoon, he plays chase, fetch, ect with the children next door when they get home from school. The evenings are generally pretty relaxed with a walk sometimes if the weather is good or hideanseek or obedience in the house if its bad. Beau also loves to swim and if the weather is OK he can go to the pond and chase the geese.

[theGoldenPup]

I walk Blaze and Luna in the morning, right now its usually just about 15-20 minutes...I've gotten a bit lazy in the cold weather. We do a 5-10 minutes of training then too. When I get home, 20-30 minutes of play, and then some more training times and short walks thrown in throughout the evening. We usually walk about a mile at least 3 times a week. Blaze has classes weekly right now, in a month both will have class almost every week...
And when the weather is nice we go on long walks, sometimes with friends. But for now we do a lot of rolling in the snow and catching snowballs!

GoldenPup

[suzysues]

Abbey is nearly 12months & we try to take her to the Park for a run every day! :029 this is anything from 1/2hr to 1hr. She sleeps a lot after that. If its really wet, or we are all busy, she gets a walk round the block, about 15mins, or my son takes her to visit my mil in her nursing home. This involves a walk through town, visiting the bank on the way. And takes about 20mins each way, plus being spoilt by nanny!! banana

She is always ready for a game after her dinner, though. Then she is worn out for the night around 9pm. :rolleyes:

[coopersmom04]

Cooper gets two 1/2 hour walks every day, one in the morning, one in the evening. During the day, we play with him inside or in the yard. We also let him and our other dog play by themselves in the backyard for about 15 minutes at at time. It's a safe area, puppy prove and fenced in! In the backyard is the only place our other dog will halfway play with Cooper. LOL.

[Karefl]

We take Jake (3 &12 yo) on our family walk with us each night after dinner. We walk about 3/4 to 1 mile each night. He also gets "recess" with the kids around lunch time. They play ball, frisbee, and other games after lunch & before afternoon homeschool lessons. They also play after school work is done & before dinner (but not always). I always have one of my sons asking to go out & play with Jake! Even during math when they KNOW the answer is NO! LOL So our Jake is pretty active I guess!

[Shannon]

I'm having a hard time with play time right now. Abby gets lots of walks and we play indoor games, but every time I try to take her out back (we have a nice fenced-in yard) and throw a ball around or something, she immediately starts ripping up the grass, trying to eat bushes, etc. If she's on leash she's fine, but I would like to be able to let her off leash to run around like the little lunatic she is. She doesn't seem to do this stuff if we're at my sister's house; she runs around and plays just fine.

I don't want to deprive her of exercise, but at the same time I'm concerned for her safety (don't want her ingesting things that could make her sick). Anyone have any suggestions on how I can stop her from doing this?

[Dragon Roll]

I just read this last post. I realize it's an old one, but, I was hoping there could be some new responses to it. We have 1/3acre backyard and I would really like to have Shen (3.5 months) run around it, but, I'm not sure if this is a good idea or not. I'm also sure he could get into trouble and learn habits that will probably take me months to break.

We take him for walks and play lots of fetch with him, however, the yard would be fun for him and I'm sure tire him out. We do have a small enclosed garden area we let him run around in, but, he is tearing it up and I would rather him run out back in the open grassy areas.
Thanks

[johnwa]

You can let him run around in an open grass area; however, I suggest you supervise the activity. ;)

[mtee1958]

Are you worried about him getting away or tearing up the place?

We have an invisible fence for Bailey. It allows him to "roam" around our acre without leaving the property. It worked when we lived in the city as well.

I don't let him out unsupervised for very long - I like to keep an eye on him because if he is extremely tempted he can run through the "fence", which he did once to get at a goose.

But I can sit on my deck and let him run and roll around without worry. The fence starts in FRONT of the landscape, so he can't do anything to the plants - like dig them up!!

We are also on a mountain, so the car traffic is minimal.

Either way - this may be a solution.

mtee

[Dragon Roll]

Are you worried about him getting away or tearing up the place?

I'm worried about him getting behind the shed or basically just getting into trouble that I can't even imagine yet:rolleyes: We did decide to chicken wire the spaces behind our two sheds. They back up to a 6' privacy fence.

We are working on a pen (for poop and pee only) this weekend. It will be a 10 x 10 picket fence area. Outside of this area we would love for him to run to his hearts content and he will always be supervised. Luckily, I don't have anything planted yet back there...just a bunch of trees, deck, and 2 large sheds.

I'm curious about the invisible fence. How accurate can it be? For instance, could I have it surrounding a vegetable garden?

Thanks!