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How much exercise??!!!
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Hi there....how much exercise do your setters get per day? I feel sorry for my guy sometimes as i always think he could take more exercise than what we give him........ This is 'Peppers' routine......
Started this discussion. Last reply by Pat Oct 24.
Problems with my setter on leash...help!!!!!!
Wow im getting bogged down with collar and harness info on the web..there really is so much choice out there!!!! has anyone heard of a canny collar, or a kumfi stop pull harness?
Replied Oct 15
Problems with my setter on leash...help!!!!!!
Hi Eva, in reply to your message about his collar....it isn't actually a choke collar as one might think...its just a regular one, but made of metal/steel....and the trainer we had here recommended...
Replied Oct 15
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I, like Michelle, advocate exercising my boy's mind as much as I exercise his body - more so in fact. It would be like us going on a marathon and then sitting in our armchair the whole time afterwards without doing anything at all. Very boring.
Si...
Mental exercise is far more important than going for walks.
My guys can be as lazy as they wish or as active & i am happy to have that option if anything should happen,they dont demand exercise.
We do live on an acre so they will happily self ex...
I have always had set exercise routines with my Irish, which involves free running exercise totalling approx 2 hours daily. I have found this keeps my dogs happy and healthy. Now that I work at home, my dogs have their first walk/run when we get u...
Hi,
Just read Jennifer Martin's reply on Pepper's pulling on the lead. My experience: Yes, stopping and turning into a lamppost as soon as they pull is hard work (took us about six months). It may take longer that other methods (never tried andy ...
Hi Caroline,
Just read your email and there is one thing that I find useful when our Setters are too exhuberant for our arms and that is to turn your rope slip lead into a figure 8. One loop of the figure 8 goes over the dog's neck as usual but th...
The thing with extremely long walks you touched in this discussion my well be true - at least I can speak for humans :)).
I find that Gina is the happiest dog after our 1 1/2 hours morning walk and run on the beach. But we always interrupt and do...
With my training of Rio, I am following the method, that the moment he starts to pull on the lead, I stop and call him back to me, he turns releasing the pressure off the lead, I praise him and then and only then walk on again on a loose lead, in ...
Hi - Feel a bit of a fraud being new here and having only owned one Irish Setter before, but would like to say that there is nothing wrong with the amount of exercise your young dog is getting, routine plays just as big a part as exercise, don't f...
Hi, Caroline.
It sounds fine to me. ;))
If you want your setter happy and tired, try mental activity. Try to teach him new tricks or you can hide him a ball or something and tell him to search for it. If you go for a walk, hide yourself, let him ...
Hi Caroline,
I think Ursula stated a very important point here saying: „...the more exercise you give, the more they demand“. I feel that too much exercise can work like a drug. Adding all the stimulating smells on our walks (mainly forests and me...
I think part of it is exercise. I think part is mental stimulation! I take my dog running with me about 2-3 times a week on week days - 4-6 miles at a time. And we get in two long walks instead of a run on the weekend - 4-6 miles each as well. Dur...
To me this sounds very good and absolutely enough. I think it`s very important that even a setter learns that breaks are also good for him. Since Vito was a puppy we had this kennel in the living room which tought him to calm down from time to tim...
We usually do
- One proper walk in the forest, from one to two hours, running free.
- Then there's a shorter excersise that is cycling, skiing, dog park running, lead walking or just another forest walk depending on the day and season.
- Morning p...
I think your dog will let you know if they aren't getting enough. My dog gets 2-3 hours a day but all at one time. We hike at our dog park about 2 miles and he is off lead and runs free and plays with the other dogs if he wants too. Sometimes he i...
At least two hours per day! In the winter we have a late morning walk of 30 to 40 minutes. Around 16.00 hours we have a walk of 45 minutes to an hour. At night my husband takes her out on his bicycle for 30 minutes. In the summertime it is often t...
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- How many Irish Setters do you have?
- 1
- How long have you owned Irish Setters?
- since April
- About Me:
- Hello, am irish, living in Switzerland, and my life changed back in April when my partner and i decided to get a dog......irish setter to be exact!!!!!
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- At 1:03am on October 19, 2009,
Cornelia Hahn said…
- Hi Caroline,
Welcome to this page and to the club of pulling Irish Setters. I'm in the northwest of our little country - where are you at home?
Enjoy the site!
cornelia
- At 4:35am on October 15, 2009,
Esther Siegrist said… - Hi Caroline
where do you life in Switzerland? I've read your blog about the problems whit your little boy on the lead.
Regards and welcome on the side
Esther
- At 4:34pm on October 14, 2009,
Fran Griffin said… - Hi Caroline. Can you email me at the following email address, and I will send you the handouts I mentioned.
acorndogtraining@talktalk.net
Thanks,
Fran
- At 12:22pm on October 14, 2009,
Nicole Wilson said… - Hello Caroline and welcome here. Seems we've done it the other way round - I'm Swiss and I live in Scotland ;-)
Good luck with your pulling boy. Mine still pulls (after three years - but don't tell anyone!). I'm sure you will get there, it just takes time and a lot of patience.
Best regards from Scotland,
Nicole
- At 12:15pm on October 14, 2009,
Susan Stone said… - A setter that pulls??? Nooo, never heard of that problem...;-))
No seriously, the first years can be hard work and you really need to know what you are doing. I suggest you find a good training school - if you tell me where you are I may be able to give you contacts. Have you been in touch with the swiss setter & pointer club? They run training courses too.
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