1、The happiest thing about dogs

Dogs need more exercise than humans to get healthy, happy and release stress. Before exercise, you need to be reminded that eating dogs before high-intensity exercise is easy to cause vomiting, so don’t feed them before vigorous exercise; If it’s after dinner exercise, don’t let go of the chain and run hard, otherwise it’s easy to have serious diseases.

2、Human & dog jogging

Jogging: This is the most commonly used fitness method for raising dogs in cities. It is said that dog owners are in good health and have fewer diseases. One important point is that we will run and exercise with dogs. Different breeds of dogs have different running speed and endurance, and everyone’s endurance and physical strength are also different. Therefore, if you jog with a dog, you must choose a good matching speed. For example, large running dogs such as Labrador and golden hair are very suitable for men to run; Border herdsmen who are too good at running must have professional friends to follow; Women are more suitable to run slowly with dogs such as VIPs and bears, which is not easy to get hurt.

Dog accompanying training

In addition to suitable dogs for jogging together, the tacit understanding between people and dogs is also very important. At the beginning, the pet owner needs to pull the rope to control the dog’s speed to avoid its burst (see the link above for training accompanying), so that it can gradually get used to the pet owner’s pace and speed and maintain consistency, and then consider the traction rope that can rotate 360 degrees freely tied to the waist.

Taking the dog out for jogging is also the best way to let the dog drink water. Many friends with small dogs asked me how I can make the dog drink more water. The answer is to take a bottle of water with me when going out for a walk and run and give the dog some every 15-20 minutes. Running will make it hot. It needs a lot of water to dissipate heat, so it will drink water frequently. Running time varies according to individual ability. Generally speaking, you can rest for 15 minutes after running for 30 minutes to avoid overheating, heatstroke or injury. If you find that the dog doesn’t want to continue running, you must stop and observe whether there is injury or discomfort.

3、Swimming and hiking

Swimming: swimming may be the best exercise, not only for us, but also for dogs. Avoid the pressure of dog weight on legs, especially when obese dogs exercise excessively, they worry about joint damage, while swimming in water has no such worry. During the rehabilitation of dogs with joint diseases or after surgery, we will advise pets to swim more. The buoyancy of water will greatly reduce the pressure on joints and exercise muscles at the same time. Dogs are not born to swim. They learn to swim the day after tomorrow. However, because the dog’s swimming posture is the same as that of running, as long as the dog overcomes his fear, he can learn to swim in a few minutes.

The first time you enter the water, you must not give the dog alone into the water. This will easily lead to the dog choking. It is best for the pet owner to stand in the water with the dog in his arms. First of all, be sure to tie the collar and traction rope. The pet owner stands aside and pulls the dog forward in a fixed direction. As long as the direction is fixed, the dog’s body will change from vertical to horizontal floating in the water during movement. It will naturally swim with the sliding of its feet. As long as it swims several times, it will overcome its fear and become fond of water.

Whether you swim in the lake, river or sea, you must keep the water flowing to avoid the dog’s disease caused by too many bacteria in the dead water. After swimming, you can wash the dog’s skin and hair with clean water, and drop anti-inflammatory eye drops 1-2 times to avoid eye infection.

The place where dogs are most likely to be poisoned

Hiking: This is one of the dog’s favorites, but it is subject to the work of pet owners, so it is often only available on weekends. The mountainous areas in the suburbs of the city, the beach by the sea and the grassland with few people are very good places to go. Of course, in places with many people, you must tie the traction rope or even put on the mouth cover. Wait until there is no one, and then try to let go and let it run freely. I envy those pet owners who live in places with mountains and water. They can take their dogs to play when they are free. It should be noted that there will be more ticks in the mountains, so we must do in vitro insect repellent on time, and ensure the effect of insect repellent and against ticks; In addition, take enough drinking water to avoid them drinking dirty water outside; Finally, most hiking takes a long time and the road is not the flat ground in the city, so dogs can easily wear out the meat pad. The first thing to do after going home is to check whether the meat pad is damaged. If injured, clean the wound immediately and treat the wound with Iodophor + anti-inflammatory ointment.

With the increasingly busy work of pet owners, the improvement of people’s living conditions and the lack of pet health knowledge, the number of obese dogs is increasing. Don’t wait for dogs to have physical diseases or depression due to excessive mental pressure before starting exercise. Moderate exercise every day is the best choice for dogs and owners.