Comments on: Dogs Beat The Gym

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:02 +0000

Get off the blogs and walk your bitches!

By: Aidan

Aidan — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:08:58 +0000

I have a 1 year old Chow Chow. I take him on 3 walks a day, for 30 minutes to an hour each. We often go walking with friends and their dogs or to the dog park. I love it, he loves it. Owning a dog is a wonderful way to get out into nature, meet new people, and have a fun time. :)

By: Joseph Singer

Joseph Singer — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:24:07 +0000

48 minutes a day is not hard if you take the dogs out three times a day. Even a 10 minute walk out and back (30 minutes) will give you an hour a day.

By: Jack Russell

Jack Russell — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:47:06 +0000

I definitely believe dog ownership has positive health benefits, especially an active breed like my Jack Russells. I’ve seen statistics that say new dog ownership in general correlates more closely to weight loss than new gym membership, so there ya go. Also has positive effects on the brain – pet therapy and so on.

By: David

David — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:50:04 +0000

I’m used to walking my dog at least a half hour per day with about an hour (3-4 miles) on weekends. I was never a dog person until my wife got an American Bulldog and I had to walk her. It is a very atavistic feeling running and walking through the brush with your packmate. We both look forward to it.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:37:04 +0000

Some of this depends on where you live. In America, a lot of people have large, enclosed yards, and I suspect they generally walk their dogs less. But if you live in an apartment, you really need to take your dog out fairly often. I walk mine 3 times a day, for an average of 15-20 minutes each time. After years of this, we’ve built up to a pace that most people can’t match unless they’re jogging. I’m not sure it’s a great cardio workout, but it certainly burns calories.

By: Di

Di — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:03:48 +0000

I am a bad dog owner during the cold months. I used to walk the dogs close to an hour a day. Now I have a baby and live in NJ where the weather has been UCK! this year so not much walking.

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By: Auburn

Auburn — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:57:10 +0000

My chocolate lab and I go for a hour’s walk most days. Any less exercise and she starts to get destructive. Also, even on days when I am exhausted and the LAST thing I want to do is go for a walk, she forces me to do something active. I find the study to be probably pretty close to accurate for a lot of dog owners.

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:17:22 +0000

I have to agree with n2y2. I recently moved into an apartment for the first time and walk my dog much more often. I had a home with a yard, and found it really easy to get lazy and just let him out.
I also go to the gym 3-4 times weekly, but sometimes it feels good to be lazy and not walk the dog.

By: n2y2

n2y2 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:02:20 +0000

Whoa, I seem to be taking a bunch of fire here. I have not had a pooch since I was a kid (An Aussie Sheppard that ran all day long in the fields without being encouraged).

What I said above was only my observation. Nearly all of my neighbors have dogs, and only one of them ever takes their dog out for a regular walk. She only walks her dog 300 feet to the community mailbox and back every day.

Compare that to the apartments outside my cube window where to occupants are constantly taking a stroll with the K9s. What’s a guys supposed to deduce? It definitely not that one group is lazier.

The dog gets antsy in an house, you let him out the back door; in a apartment, that is not an option.