[Closed] ot: anyone take their dog to work?

Shes a good age to learn to be calm at your work, mine at 7 would be a nightmare but now is a good time to start. The only problem is she may be just a bit to young to really exercise her hard so she sleeps most of the day.

Make her get a job at a poodle parlour, so she can take the dog to work with her.

Also could leave her in the back of the car if and when i have meetings

That is crappy - please don't do it. I've seen it done before and it doesn't result in a happy dog.

can't see a 5 month old spaniel working in a poodle parlour 😆

Just do it a few days a week when you have meetings leave her at home - they are quite adaptive animals but they like routines for stability.

TooTall,

she loves it in the back of the car
has her own bed already and it would only be when i have a meeting

she gets a good walk before work, i can walk her at lunchtime and for 20mins at 10:30ish so she isn't going to be on her own much

my boss has said that her hosekeeper will walk her when i can't but i would rather walk her myself, particularly at this age and while i am training her

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Mine comes to work with me, but I do an outdoor job (on a farm at a boarding school), however several other staff bring their dogs that stay in offices or cars and get walked during the day. It seems to work ok and the dogs are getting more exercise and interaction than they would if they left them at home. Two of them have been doing it since the dogs were pups and trained them whilst they walked them aswell and the dogs seem pretty well balanced and good natured so I dont think they have been badly affectedby their routine.

I used to take my dog into the office until he was banned for a poo in the bin incident:)

We also used to have a springer and my advice would be, if the company are OK with it & the mutt is well behaved, take her to work. I def wouldn't recommend leaving her in the car or house for too long on her own though - IME, springers get bored pretty quickly, so you might end up with a completely gnawed & partially digested car/house.

Good luck:)

i am out and about alot looking at land, buildings etc so she will be with me in the car (and getting a run around when possible/safe)

i get to work about 9:00am and leave about 4:00pm

martin, good idea............got room in the car for molly.. 😉

I think its a gr8 idea if u can manage it.Much better that abandoning the dog for the day.Chance to really bond with the dog and also the dog will adapt very quickly to the days schedule.I have taken mine to work from an early age and the dog rally looks forward to it.Sometimes the dog spends some time in the car and funnily enough dogs love car time as they treat the car as a large mobile home.The only dange with this is in the summer time the car can b a dangerous place for a dog in hot weather.

I used to take my beloved Fred to work. Top hound. Absolute fannymagnet as well.

If the company and the dog are both well enough behaved, it's great. If not, it's [i]really[/i] not great!

My work mate has a 3 year old chocolate lab she was mad to start with but now she sits under my desk all calm
is still gets excited when new people come in but no one seems to mind. the whole body wags then she will just go and lie down again after a few mins.

don't lock the dog in the car i'm sure someone you work with wouldn't mind looking after the dog if you have meetings.

There's a lady at my place (but in a different building) who has a dog that pretty much lives under her desk. Whenever I go into her office I'm always bowled over by the doggie smell, even when the dog isn't there. You might want to up the cleaning routine or find a way to increase air circulation if you want the place to smell professional. I guess it depends on the nature of the business. Also, clients with allergies?

I take our lab (Ronnie) to work and he loves it. He's really quiet and not really any trouble at all.

People come into my office and if the dog isn't there they ask "Where's Ronnie?"

or pop in say hello to me and then fuss the dog before leaving saying "I only popped in to see the dog"

You dog needs to be quiet and not a mad thing though. Ronnie is lucky as hes really really calm and lazy.

At first I only intended to bring him on a couple of days a week but he's in when ever I am in the office and not ridden to work, so most days in crap weather then.

Taken my dog to work since we got her as a pup. She loves it and is spoilt by everyone at work. But then I am a vet so it is kinda normal!

Be careful with cars, they heat up really quick and dogs die every year because of it.

Of my clients who take their dogs to work as well I would say most of them are pretty chilled by the experience. Dogs love routine and soon adapt to new things especialy at a young age like that.

Yes, I do. But then again I'm a blind gynacologist so she's a seeing eye dog.

LOL!
anyway. our springer/field spaniel cross bitch comes into work. fine. she's a pretty chilled spaniel ( really! ), so no big deal. i can parcel her off in another office space if i have customers in or whatever.
walk before, walk at lunch. walk in the evening. fine.

I use to take my springer into work and it was a positive experience for all. I think the key thing is to make sure that you are very aware of other people when doing it. Some people are scared of dogs and they have a right to feel safe in their workplace. Dogs can smell, make sure the cleaning is up to the job. Most dogs get excited when meeting new people but most people don't like a dog that jumps up and leaves paw marks all over clean office clothes

basically just show that you understand the problems a dog can cause and do what you can to reduce them. Letting you bring your hound into work is a risk for an employer, it's easy to see that it would be sensible for them not to let you tbh

my hound was pretty good on the whole. Was quite happy asleep at my feet. It I had to go somewhere he would just go to someone else and sleep at their feet. It feltike he was part of the team and added character to the office enviroment.

every now and then though he would do something really embarassing. Pissing in the middle of the carpet just before an important presentation. Why did he do that?!? He never peed inside! Why oh why then and there?!? Every now and then he would find something tasty in a bag on the floor or a bin. That was always really embarrasing too

I use to take my springer into work and it was a positive experience for all. I think the key thing is to make sure that you are very aware of other people when doing it. Some people are scared of dogs and they have a right to feel safe in their workplace. Dogs can smell, make sure the cleaning is up to the job. Most dogs get excited when meeting new people but most people don't like a dog that jumps up and leaves paw marks all over clean office clothes

basically just show that you understand the problems a dog can cause and do what you can to reduce them. Letting you bring your hound into work is a risk for an employer, it's easy to see that it would be sensible for them not to let you tbh

As i read this thread, I thought "What an odd idea, to take your dog to work". Then, the responses got me thinking, and I recall my mother telling me that she used to do that with her two black labradors.

The place she worked at the time had a window leading onto a flat roof, so in the sumer the dogs would go outside onto the roof and sleep in the sun.

It's a dog's life..! 😀

i would live to bring mine to work, chances are I'd get less done than normal as I would be fussing them all teh time. can't imagine the powers-that-be handling it though.....