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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Two factors:  how old is the dog?  What is the weather?

When we first adopted our rescue, she had just turned a year old.  She needed, really needed, four walks a day.  A quick walk upon rising (10 mins); an hour in the morning; an hour or so later in the day, and 20 mins or so before bedtime.

Now that she's 3.5, she's much more mellow.  She still gets a long morning walk and a walk later in the day, but she will often abbreviate her later walk to a quick spin down the block to sniff the pee spots.  If it's very cold, windy, or raining, she doesn't want that.  I should mention we have a doggy door.  If it's cold out, she will sometimes start heading home in the middle of our morning walk.

Get into a routine with your dog.  If your dog happily heads home at the end of your walk route, or play session with the neighbor, that's a sign that she's well settled and has a comfortable routine.

Also, if you are walking in snow and salt and grit, clean the dogs paws.[/quote]

OP here.  We were told she is 2 years old by the rescue but not sure how accurate that is.  A friend told me that rescues usually round down on the age because people like younger dogs?  I have no clue.  I'm going to ask the vet at our next appointment just out of curiosity.  We're also guessing that she's a mix of Doberman, Rottweiler, and lab.  We're opting out of getting the DNA test.  And the weather is the current cold weather here in DC.  She does make it clear when she's done playing with the neighbor's dog, but when she comes inside she is wound up and tries to jump on me, so there's that.  I don't think it means she still wants to play necessarily but it does make me wonder.  And she seems to have just as much energy at the end of our one-hour walks as she does at the beginning.  But for now I think we'll just keep doing what we're doing.  she's not being destructive although she does seem to like to gnaw on the corner of the coffee table when we try to redirect her from gnawing on our hands.  She is not a chewer, necessarily, but she likes to nip and chew at our hands so we're constantly redirecting her in that way.

Anywho, thanks for all the input, I appreciate it! [/quote]

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