what do you do about your dog if your are isolating but not positive

[AbsolutelyPatsy]

she is going stir crazy

Take your dog out, just make sure you go somewhere quiet.
Ignore the people blithely talking about dog walkers (need to be pre-booked and likely to be busy) and friends/neighbours - we don't all have people we can ask for favours.

Most areas still have covid isolation and shielding support groups do they? I thought they all disappeared after the first lockdown. I think it probably depends on the area, I've seen no reference to anything like that in our area.

I also think that handing the dog over is far more risky than walking the dog at quiet times.

Take the poor thing out for a bloody walk.

Now!

@igelkott2021 our parish council set one up and the posters with phone numbers are still on display. I had a call last month for support with a Labrador. She was lovely!

I'm actually a professional dog walker anyway, I do any covid-y dogs separately at strange times. I also helped write the policy for safe handover of dogs in covid-y households. At least, the home office official who did write it asked his dog walker's advice, and she ran it past me before sending it back in. We spotted a couple of phrases we'd come up with copied word for word when it was published!

I honestly think giving your dog to a friend / dog Walker is more risky than just taking your dog out yourself.

I know everyone's situation is different and depends where you walk, but for me I'm on a dog walking WhatsApp group, so I told people I'll be staying well away and not coming to say hello, and I just took my dog out staying about 20 metres away from people, i usually let my dog off lead but kept him on so I didnt have to invade peoples space to get him if he went too far.

Why do people think handing the dog over (to someone trusted and either known or recommended) is more risky? I’m genuinely trying to understand.
If it helps, our dog walker had COVID; she was with our dogs just before she became symptomatic and we were all ok. We have a strict handover routine though, that involves no contact between the humans, the dog walker doesn’t enter the house and she has leads for her use only that live in the porch in a sealed plastic box. She opens the door, calls the dogs and they run to get their leads put on at the doorstep.

@AbsolutelyPatsy

oh no, i dont think people know where i work exactly

Wear a mask and a hat with with a cap

@ChristmasShearwater

Take the poor thing out for a bloody walk.

Now!

i just got back i have to drive to a remote field, but ddog gave up - she resisted - god knows why - she can be contrary - and i had to come home we got half an hour! it did turn a bit hot and muggy

and i feel more confident because i know the places i walk are quiet

If I was isolating and testing negative, I'd still be walking my dog (taking care to avoid other people just in case)

@AbsolutelyPatsy

yes, how early is early? is it too late now?

Just take the dog a walk at any time you like, just keep a wide birth from everyone and wear a mask for the whole time

Snuffle mats, stuffed kongs, enrichment toys, chews. I do have a garden so he can go out and toilet and run around there. I had to be creative when he broke his leg and had to be on cage rest for 6 weeks.

@Lupinhere37

Why do people think handing the dog over (to someone trusted and either known or recommended) is more risky? I’m genuinely trying to understand. If it helps, our dog walker had COVID; she was with our dogs just before she became symptomatic and we were all ok. We have a strict handover routine though, that involves no contact between the humans, the dog walker doesn’t enter the house and she has leads for her use only that live in the porch in a sealed plastic box. She opens the door, calls the dogs and they run to get their leads put on at the doorstep.

Because you'd be getting within a meter of they person to pass the lead over etc

Why do people think handing the dog over (to someone trusted and either known or recommended) is more risky? I’m genuinely trying to understand.

Because Covid is spread inside at close quarters through aerosol spray. The chances of catching Covid from someone several metres away outside are very low.

@hellcatspangle

If I was isolating and testing negative, I'd still be walking my dog (taking care to avoid other people just in case)

i always said i would but have been nervous for four days, but thanks to posters who said Just Go, i did! so thanks

It's too late for you now but at the beginning of the first lockdown I made up a plastic box of dog walking supplies. It contained a clean lead and collar, harness and seatbelt clip, poo bags, dog treats and hand sanitizer, I put it in the storage shed attached to the house which could be accessed by anyone kind enough to walk my dog. They could come into the back garden, get the box and I'd let the dog out without a collar or lead on. I exchanged phone numbers with about 6 other dog owners with the agreement we would walk each others dogs if necessary. I had to isolate for a couple of days whilst waiting for a test result and the system worked really well.
"What about the dog", was my first thought when they announced the self isolation rules.

Take your dog fir a walk!!!!

Just walk the dog …avoid other people.

I know someone who had this problem they still went out just avoided other dog walkers

has everyone lost all common sense in the last year or 2? Health and safety has been bonkers for many years, its sky rocketed in bonkers since covid. So if some official advises 10 days isolation just cause u brushed past someone with a virus, please don't abandon your dog, or sit in doors going mad, make your own judgement call on what is healthy and sensible

@HummingBeeBox

Agreed, walk the dog very early and very late. Although be careful if you are in a position of responsibility in society as a friend is a doctors receptionist and was spotted and is now terrified as she is worried she'll lose her job. Her manager is speaking with her today.

A doctors receptionist is in a "position of responsibility in society*???

God, I'd like to hear my manager talk to me about what I did in my spare time.

has everyone lost all common sense in the last year or 2?

They have on Mumsnet.

that you @monstermunch1
but mumsnet is the judge jury and executioner

thank you, i mean.
and after reading mn you tend to feel the whole society is just as judgmental and willing to report

Definitely walk the dog! My little girl has to isolate, and I didn't know how id get my other children to school without taking her. School told me to just take them late and pick up early. There were other parents doing the same, we drove to school, others did not. It's only the same.