Do you wear headphones and listen to anything when you walk the dog?

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I don’t, I feel disrespectful to the dog.

I’ve got an audiobook I’m enjoying and I’d quite like to listen as I take the dog out just now (on lead so no issue with keeping tabs on where he is). I’d feel guilty though, is this weird?

Just when I thought I'd heard everything.....my favourite thing to do on a dog walk is to listen to a good podcast or occasionally music. My dog is being a dog.

Always, every single time. Today programme in the morning, Jeremy Vine at lunch, Jane and Fi on Times Radio mid afternoon, Jo Wiley in the evenings. Weekends, it's either Grace Dent Comfort Eating on Spotify or Kitchen Cabinet on iPlayer, or catching up with The Archers. Or some random Radio 4 podcast.
I do talk to my dog and to other people when I pass them and I do like to stop and chat. I just like the radio for company.

Always listen to a good podcast. Just like when I watch telly when he's on my lap.

He's a dog. He is happy just being in the presence of one of his pack.

Also walkies gets boring after 1 - 2 hours every day. I try to vary the route as much as possible but after 3 years it would bore the tits of me without something to listen to. Not him though...still loves it, even if I am listening to something else. (Also off-lead is illegal here and very little car traffic - no need for hypervigilence.)

Reading their peemails
So true.
I love that 😂😂

I listen to true crime podcasts. Over the field on our own I sometimes get a trot on if they're too scarey. The dog mooches and sniffs.

Omg I do this 😂😂

Have thought about it but need my wits about me when walking the dog 😂 she's usually fine but she requires my concentration

I'm another one-earbud audiobook listener.

I love my podcasts when I am out for a stroll with the dog

I've a spanner too and he needs interaction/instruction/reminders on how to walk on a loose lead on a regular basis (i.e. every few minutes as he gets quite excited reading his peemail!). I'm also observing his body language frequently because whilst some dogs/people he ignores, others he can react to so need to be alert to that at all times.

So, nope, no music/podcasts here.

However if I had a totally chilled dog that enjoys a mooch and requires very little from me, I might have some music in the background.

OMG are you my dog?
I did this for the first time today. Albeit with one ear pod in & she was on a lead.
Peemails 😆

I listen to podcasts. My two eejits walk at the speed of snails, I need something to distract me from how slow they are. I still talk to them/give them instructions but for my sanity I need something to listen to.

I am indeed, I felt slighted.

Think how pissed off I must be to have got myself on here, working through my hurt with a passive aggressive thread, tapping away with a complete absence of opposable thumbs.

I hope it was worth it.

I do that with mine in. Just pause whatever I'm listening to if it's sustained interaction. There's a large portion of every walk spent just watching them chase each other in the long grass anyway.

No, when I walk my dog, I am all about being with her and enjoying the walk. She is off lead as much as possible and I am focused on her because she’s a big strong breed (but obedient, with excellent recall) and I’m always ready to pop her on her lead if someone comes along with a small child, or a dog on the lead. She is only 16 months, so we still do a little random recall, sit, down training along the way. If yours is on it’s lead, there is nothing wrong with listening to your audiobook, but in addition to all the above, I just enjoy focusing on the walk with my girl.

I do sometimes, I also often phone my Mother when out walking. My dog takes his sniffing very seriously, so he doesn’t have time to chat to me. When pokomon go was a thing some years ago I tried doing that on walks, but the dog made it clear that wasn’t on. It was very important to him that I was watching him sniff.

also feel disrespectful to the dog
so no i dont either!
she is very accommodating and waits with me while i activate merlin to learn what birds are singing

oh and of course i wouldnt be able to hear the birds
or whatever else might be around!

This is what I do too

I do listen to podcasts, but I can alao chat to dog at same time. My dog looks out for when I put my AirPods in and then knows to go to the front door for his walk.

No way.

In a household full of teenagers, my walk with the dog is the only meaningful conversation I get!!!

I do. The minute i pull out my headphones she knows it is walk time. However she is a an old lady who likes to stop and sniff every blade of grass on our slow amble. I would be bored without my audiobooks. I do talk to her though. I ask her to get a wiggle on and she ignores me.

It's the only time I walk with both headphones in when I'm with the dog. He will hear the approaching murderer and deal with them accordingly. No conversation from him on walks. He has to be kept on a lead (he's a miserable shite), and he spends the majority of his time sniffing everything anyway.

I have headphones on about 80% of walks but I have two dogs who are off the lead and running the fields. I am just there to throw any balls they find or to shake near when they go for a swim.
I also do work calls whilst walking which means I can do long walks during my working day.
My dogs, like my kids, have been brought up on a 80s style loving neglect. Where they can crack on and do their own thing as long as they aren't doing anything that fucks anyone else off.
It's also the only time I get to listen to podcasts and audio books.