Small Dog...do you HAVE to take it for walks?

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I know someone whos got a dog and never takes it for walks. Feel sorry for it. Is it just me or is it a bit mean?

I have a love hate relationship with our dog ( he is dps), as my previous posts reveal but I would never see him trapped in the house. All dogs need to walk. I have a friend who didn't walk her dog and I told either she let me and dp walk it, she walked it herself or we called the RSPCA. She claimed it had allergies so couldn't be walked but it was able to run around in her garden quite safely!!!!??? After a long falling out with me she now walks him and we take him out with ours at the weekends.

Lol, Easy, time to get the Febreze out! Our house has wide overhangs so when it's raining the dog huddles up as close to the wall as possible and pees there. She loves snow, though, and acts like a puppy then.

Our house is littered with scented candles as we are slowly becoming an animal sanctuary.

All dogs need some exersise, usually even those with health problems need a little.

Size is completely irrelevant. Our jack russels would run around helter skelter all day long whereas our golden retreiver would happily chill out in front of the fire, unless he was dragged outside!

We had a border collie who needed loads of exersise. I knew of some people who didn't exercise their collie half enough and the outcome was a particularly bad tempered and viscious creature, through no fault of her own +

I can't think what you can do about it though, if all your suggestions are being ignored.......though, maybe the RSPCA would at least speak to the owners, if you consulted them?