I want to get a dog but I have to work, how does everyone on broadway market do it ?

Crumpet can't have antlers. She just boots them under the sofa and then cries until we fish them out.

Ah fair, sounds like you're doing everything you can! All I would add is that mine def acts up/is annoying when he's stressed or has had his adrenalin raised. If he's still very new to you then this will hopefully all just be the settling in period. Looks like a lovely dog!

It looks like that dog likes chasing things being a greyhoundy whippet looking dog.

I saw flirt poles being used on some video somewhere. Big furry tail thing on a long lead essentially. Might help with the whole “genetic fulfilment” everyone throws around.

She just boots them under the sofa

Why do you get her to wear boots?

Doggy day care might be worth a go

We send Bosco and it knackers him right out.

We use it if we are going to be travelling or having people round, day care the day before will make him mucho tired.

It is also good for socialisation

Just to add a counter-point to this, our fairly highly-strung adolescent has not responded well to daycare/group walks the few times we've tried. It seems to raise his adrenalin levels to the point that the following 24 hours are a painful process of decompression with barking and an inability to settle etc. Apparently the deerhound genes bring a particularly sensitive adolescence but very much hoping he is growing out of this as we speak.

Looks like he might have some Saluki in the mix? They are famously mental.

A long walk does wonders for our lurchers, really does conk them out for a few days. We did doggy daycare for our younger one once a week for 18 months or so, helped him from being too crazy indoors after a day of sprinting after every other dog.

Ah ha!! I knew I spotted you the other day!

Just to make it extra unpleasant when she jumps on me for a cuddle in the middle of the night.

Asshole better sleep now.

(OS Maps estimated 1hr32… we walked it in barely an hour)

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You might knacker a dog out once, but next time it will just be fitter, it's called training. It'll probably be good for both of you!

Morning walk is 2 miles it turns out

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Need to find a sweet spot before he’s running ultra-marathons and I’m in a wheelchair.

Harness, cart, reins...

Dolly puts in a solid 50 miles a week and I’m sure she could do twice that. If she doesn’t get her evening pre dinner trot she is a total twat.

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...and for race days, recumbent, reins, squirrel.

We send peanut to daycare once a week and you'd think it was prison you were sending him too he hates going.

Loves coming home tho!

Mental exercise over physical, the dumber your dog the easier it is.

Yes. A bike is a great way to exercise a big dog. My old man exercises his drahthaar via a bike.

This is where the OH and I have reached in discussion.

He loves the treats involved in a puzzle ball but gives up easily on difficult toys. He seems to know when it’s effort.

It’s only 3 weeks so far, so he’s barely settled. Hopefully we find out what mental stimulation (short of next door’s cat) gets him tired out.

Might try train him to play Tekken

Today I went into CP and used the maze there for off lead and heel. It’s a good spot.
When you get to the middle it’s a good spot for doing the sit stay stuff, the wait retrieves etc. it was good not flinging a ball around and still seeing lots of engagement with “the job”.

Still boisterous as fuck when seeing other dogs, just wants to run in and “hi! Hi! Hello! Who are you!? Shall we play??”.

Were you in Potts Wood?! You should have said hai!

The best game/puzzle we've found with ours is basically variants of hide and seek in the flat. So, get him into a down stay on his bed then go out of the room and hide a number of treats/toys around the place before instructing him to go find. Can easily kill an hour, is sort of fun for both of you and helps build the bond with lots of rewards and 'good jobs', plus he uses his nose intensely which is meant to be tiring. When the weather is exceptionally bad an hour of this seems to be essentially equivalent to a walk.

Nope, here perhaps we didn’t

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