How far does your dog run.

[rimfire4969]

I was out at our little syndicate walk one shoot one and decided to start my gps to find out how far I walk on a shoot day. I was surprised to find I done just over 4 miles. On a beating day I guess I do more.

 

Thinking about my dogs, if I do 4 miles and my dog quarters, retrieves and picks the odd runner, how many miles do they do?

 

My guess is 3 to 5 times me so about 12 to 20 miles. On a longer day they probably do a marathon and that can be 3 or 4 a week.

[kent]

I think Barbra Woodhouse the old TV trainer studied this via just walking around the house etc with her dog with her, it was quite a lot. Don't factor it in though as exercise given. I am a firm believer that dogs need to run not just walk and yes they can eat up large distances that seem to us weak and feeble humans as a lot, go off what you see in the dog.

I well remember walking out a number of miles just to hunt with my running dogs in the old days. They then subsequently made large catches and also many failed catches of rabbits and hares (at full tilt speed) then walked home again. After 3-4 hrs rest the dogs would have done it all again and to be fair I might not have been too far behind back then (these days it might be 3-4 days to recover from such exertions) .

[bruno22rf]

I guess that the only upside ,rimfire4969,is that with your marksmanship the dog never carriers much weight (only jesting )

[Big Mat]

This morning we did roughly 4 miles just getting too and from the spot on the marsh. Some days that can be up to 8. Dogs might even be double that when they are running 10-15 metres ahead and then coming back all the time.