Any Advice Or Tips On How To Get Your Dog Fit For The Season?

[neil cooney 10,416]

Everyone agrees on different methods and levels of exercise to get a dog fit enough for a day or nights work but IMO the first thing to do before starting is to ensure the dog is wormed and de-flead.

Also the dogs diet is as important as the level of exercise it gets.

Anyone can stick a dog on a lead and set of but it's no accident that usually the man with constantly good dogs also knows every aspect of conditioning.

[arcticgun 4,548]

Don't start just yet its too warm

[inan 841]

I like to book my dogs into a spar a few weeks before the season starts ..they get a manicure ... An all over massage ... Hot stone treatment the full works ... I find this relaxes the dogs and gets them into the right frame of mind for a days work once a month which I think is plenty for any dog .........

I think the pink nail varnish you had onTegan when we did that job was a bit over the top, but," different strokes".

[low plains drifter 10,912]

Road walking is the key to a well conditioned dog it's the only real way to strengthen muscles tendons and ligaments which provide the skeletal support, or you could just run the dog and pay the vet bills

[Little Huntress 40]

I'm new to all this so just want to make sure I've got this fitness malarkey straight...

 

I need to:

 

work him on the road

not work him on the road

learn how to stay on a bike and take him out with that

run him behind car with him on strict instructions to stay on the grass

take him to the local pool for a dip

book him for a cut and blow dry

and paint his nails

 

[desertbred 5,490]

yes and get something bigger than a handbag dog

[Little Huntress 40]

Haha! No problem there... he is 10 months old and just under 27" tts. Which is great apart from fact I'm 5'1 so look like I've got another horse, not dog!