What do you do when you don't feel like walking your dog?

[Anonymous]

You suck it up and take responsibility.

I can't believe anyone is even asking this question.

[Anonymous]

Really? You have never felt like not walking your dog? Come on. Yes I have a yard.
OP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Really? You have never felt like not walking your dog? Come on. Yes I have a yard.
OP

I'm not a dog owner myself, but I expect there certainly have been times when all dog owners didn't feel like walking their animals. I expect they did it anyway unless they had someone else to do it for them.

[Anonymous]

Like Nike says, just do it. Much like going to the gym for many, the hard part is getting out the door. But you're always glad you went.

[Anonymous]

I just let the dog crap on the floor. Is that wrong? Should I not be doing that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Really? You have never felt like not walking your dog? Come on. Yes I have a yard.
OP

Yes, OP, as many of us have said, we have times when we don't feel like walking the dog...AND WE STILL DO IT.

I get the feeling you are on here looking for someone to give you permission to slack or to justify it to yourself.

If you can't be bothered, rehome the dog.

[Anonymous]

Listen people by walk I meant a 45 min walk, not a 10 min do your business walk. Calm down. He got 2 today actually.

[Anonymous]

We walk him anyway. Seriously, what other option is there? Post on dcum hoping for some magic solution?

[Anonymous]

Get a yard with a fence. I never "walk" my dog.

[Anonymous]

You can be like my crappy neighbors who won't get off their lazy asses and instead let their dog bark its a*s off for 5 minutes straight at 10 each night and at 6 each morning in their backyard (which backs up to my backyard). My poor kids have finally learned to sleep through it, but if they're sick or something-- it wakes them up always. I hate these people!!!! Don't be those people!!!

[Anonymous]

Diaper.

[Anonymous]

OP,
Next time, be clearer. It really did sound like you didn't want to take the dog out period.

[Anonymous]

I can't believe the responses. If you feel like complete shit, let the dog out to pee and poo but you don't have to take it for a 30 minute walk.

[Anonymous]

we rarely walk our dogs. We have a huge yard. Plus they play with each other. They also play ffetch in the house. They are little. My big dog is older would love to walk everyday but I just cat. She goes outside for hours somedays just to sniff.

occasionally we walk or I might let her loose to chase the neighbors cat. Always come back and none of the neighbors complain. I live in a really quiet less crowded area.

[Anonymous]

I walk the dog every morning and therefore fulfill my familial duty.

The other people (ahem) in my family who have responsibility for the second walk use a laser pointer which the dog loves to chase. You can use it at night in the yard or in a shadowy staircase during the day. The stair case gets them running up and down the stairs -- good exercise. A problem with this particular dog, though, is that she loves the "little red bug" so much that she obsessively bothers people about it in the evening -- so it depends on your dog. If it gets too obsessed with the laser pointer, that's not a good thing either. But then I did my walk already. I leave it to the rest of the family to deal with the laser pointer obsession! (Otherwise I would have 100% responsibility for this dog!!!)