How much work is he? The karelia look amazing.
work might not agree to me moving their 9 tonne CNC mill into my workshop
Cant hurt to ask 🙃
My dog is a lab/collie cross (I think, she's a rescue and never DNAed her). She's out in the park at least once a day for maybe 90mins, chasing balls, chewing sticks, swimming, generally goofing around. Goes out for maybe 30mins early evening round the streets, getting the skinny on who's been out and about on her turf. Then 10mins last thing to do what needs to be done. Occasional trip to the river with the bike too, though I've maybe retired her from longer rides a bit too early.
Regardless she's out three, sometimes four times a day. Sometimes the walks in the really shite weather are the best!
As said above dogs are pack animals and need the companionship and leadership of their humans. Collies even more so. Sounds like the OP has reached the right conclusion. There is of course the dogwalker/daycare option but that's a compromise, not applicable to puppies and expensive!
Really interesting thread. We have become dog owners in lockdown, with my work now being home based for the foreseeable then probs a day or 2 away every week, Wife works part time, teenage boys, so once some normality returns there is unlikely to be no one in more than a few hours a couple of times a week.
We have had our cockapoo pup since he was 8 weeks old, he’s now 14 weeks. Bloody hell he’s hard work ! definitely more so than the boys were !
He can now hang onto his bladder from 1130 till 0530 so sleep is returning for me. He’s very content and well settled. He sleeps probs 18-20 hrs but never when I’m in important Teams calls....
Outside walks are twice a day and 15 mins a time; he has a slightly lame hind leg and spent a day in ‘hospital’ last week getting a load of X-rays and assessment incase he had hip dysplasia, but thankfully clear, so it’s rest for now.
Superb fun and he’s a real part of the family now. Thanks goodness for vet insurance.... Oh, and he’s famous too 😁
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Go Nuts OP, You can always dump em' on a local charity along with everyone else in six months or so...
How much work is he? The karelia look amazing.
He’s good in the house but they are intelligent dogs so his walks are full of direction commands verbal and hand signals to ‘work him’. We do a lot of deer tracking as his breeding kicks in and he goes into ‘hunting mode’.
He also likes a good mountain walk!
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Called it.
Read the responses - is looking for an excuse to make it OK.
No. Giving them the run of two acres whilst you're both out for 9 hours a day doesn't make it OK. You're *still leaving the dogs alone*.
Forgot to say - MrsRNP works part time and takes him to work (local museum in a large public park) which he loves as he has the run of the place and pre Covid had volunteers to coo over him. Then I come home and its big walk time!
I reckon all the dogs owned by people in this thread suffer from massive separation anxiety because they've never been left alone for more than a few hours. Tbh this is probably the biggest issue with lockdown pups rather than anything else as they've allways had someone around
@iainc nice to see a picture of Olly. Glad you’re enjoying having him. First year or so is the hardest, but they do settle down. Saying that, mine has given me the run around a couple of times this week, with 4am trips to the garden.
^^ thank you ! Yes, we are blessed to have him, lovely wee guy. Glad to hear it gets easier too 😁
iainc, glad to hear Ollie is ok and free from hip dysplasia but seeing as it's a heredity condition it does go to show how important it is to buy from a breeder who health tests the parents.
Vet insurance and surgery are all well and good but best to avoid these problems in the first place.
With the massive increase in dog theft i wouldn't be leaving a dog outside for any length of time.
Even with MrsBeanZ WFH we've stopped leaving the dog flap open.
Found it...This is the thread I meant to post this on!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-55719338
"When your 'pandemic puppy' doesn't work out"
I mean: ""He wasn't trained at all," Jessica says, adding that he didn't even know basic commands. "He was potty trained at least but he didn't know 'sit', 'stay', 'come', or anything." "
Like er, wow.
^^^ to be fair, they did rescue the dog rather than buy a "new" one, and they asked whether it was trained & and were told that it was "well-trained"... it's not like they got a new puppy and expected it to work properly out of the box!!
^^To be fair, it's a tiny example of the kind of idiots that are out there.
Expecting a rescue to be perfect from the off and then chopping it in a month later. The puppy would barely know the new area in that time and all of it's walks would have been on lead to learn the geography.
Idiots
