Are you walking your dogs during this grotty, miserable weather?

[TheTecknician]

I don't have any pets but I wouldn't blame any person or pooch for staying indoors today while it is cold and drizzly. And muddy too. This morning I've only seen one dog and that was inside a local coffee shop. Plus a rather bedraggled-looking pony that was being walked in the direction of its stable. It was wet through.

Hopefully we'll have some sunshine tomorrow 😎.

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The weather is positively tropical here (Surrey).

Of course the dog gets 2 x 45 minute walks a day.

No, our dog hates wind, rain, snow, the cold, the dark, leaves if they get stuck in his fur, sand, any wet mud. If it’s raining he won’t go out to the loo unless you have an umbrella, to the point that we now have a little dog toilet under our side porch. He is an absolute prince.

Nope, I don't walk mine in stinky weather. Luckily it's very rare here for it to rain heavily all day so we can usually get at some point in the day (generally they get offered 3 walks day).
Mine are 17 and 13 yrs old so I figure they can decide if they don't want to go at their ages!

It's been beautiful here today, I did about 6 miles with the dog on the coast path this afternoon in a tshirt and shorts 😂

She gets walked mostly every day. In heavy rain her main walk might only be 30 minutes but on nicer days could be 3 or 4 hours so it evens out.

In truly awful weather like high wind or constant torrential rain - we skip it. For our sake, not hers. It doesn't harm any dog to skip an odd day, to the contrary it can be beneficial to give them a down day.

Many posters seem to say things like 'they'd be climbing the walls!' almost as if it's some kind of flex to be unable to miss one walk. It's really not - regardless of breed, if your dogs behaviour is awful or unmanageable because of one day indoors then you have an understimulated and, probably, fairly unhappy dog.

Yes. Dogs don't care. Or mine don't.

Yep. Did a 5k run with mine in the drizzle and wind. We both enjoyed it!

🤣🤣🤣

The rain finally stopped yesterday evening and now we have bright-ish skies and the sun trying to break through the cloud. Thank goodness.

Dogs need to be walked come rain or shine. If you're not willing to make that commitment, get a cat or a budgie.

Yup…I don’t mind it actually…just wrap up 🤷‍♀️

I know it gets mocked on MN but I genuinely a “no such thing as bad weather” person. I actually did enjoy my run in the rain and wind with the dog yesterday!

My boy is almost always up for a walk, likes having wet paws and getting soggy. Last week though there was one morning with heavy wind and rain where he stopped dead just outside the front door and refused to go further, so he does have his limits.

Yes, out at 0545 as usual to our local common.

Not had a dog for many years, but when I did, we did all weather walks. Much to his disgust! If we went out in heavy rain, he would walk in front of me and sit down so I couldn't walk forward 😂

One of my dogs, the other one is an old boy who used to love a walk in all weathers, now he’d be horrified if I took him out in miserable weather, fair weather walks only for him.

Same. I force him out but he stays glued to me and runs to every gate hurrying me to get home even with his coat on 😭

My Shihtzu hates the bad weather but we still walk ,but he's trying to go home the hole time.

Is he a dachshund? They’re notorious for hating rain - my one has to be forced out in this weather and you know as soon as she’s done her business, she’ll want to be heading home.

It's Autumn in the UK, not February in Siberia.

Most dogs have very effective fur coats and will be fine in much colder weather than this. It's the poor dogs overheating in unnecessary man-made coats that will be struggling.

Summer heat is a much bigger problem.

My dog will not go out in the rain. The breaks go on and he’s having none of it. He also doesn’t want to walk in the dark. Right now he won’t even go for a wee at bedtime as fireworks have been Going off every Night for about 6 weeks. So no, when it’s raining we don’t go out. Sometimes he won’t go out out if it looks like a chance of rain!

Bit of an odd question. Normal autumn weather and dogs need walking.

I was in the car a couple of days ago, weather windy and rainy, not stormy, but bordering on it, and I saw someone in a long waterproof walking their dog ( light coloured ( golden?) Labrador) and every 5 or 6 steps the dog paused to look up at its owner, with such love. it really touched me and made me smile. I'm not a dog owner, but they're lovely, and i get why people adore their dogs, and don't mind the commitment.

Mines a spaniel cross so the wetter and muddier the better as far as he’s concerned! He’d be bouncing off the walls if he didn’t get out.

My goldie goes out in any weather, other than when it is boiling hot and even then we would take him around 10pm.

I did 7 miles in total with him on Friday and was grateful for my waterproof coat! He doesnt give a shit and dries his face on my bed when we come hone 😂