For how long do you walk your dog?

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We are currently looking for a rescue dog and put in a preliminary inquiry for a medium sized young dog with relatively few details available at the time. They responded to say that she was not the dog for us (quite rightly once they gave more information) but part of the feedback was that our estimate of how much exercise we could offer daily - 45 mins twice a day almost all off lead - was insufficient for a young, active medium sized dog. This is our minimum - we could offer more at weekends etc. I know very few people who exercise their (often quite big) dogs for this long on a daily basis. Are we grossly underestimating how much excercise a dog needs? We were recommended to thinkg of something smaller / a lot older.

It's not so much the size of dog but the breed/type that is likely to affect the length and type of walks they need.

Our whippets are medium sized dogs and they are more than happy with a 30-60 minute walk most days as long as they get a good off lead run. They're very much sprinters and though they will happily do longer walks (as long as the weather is nice ) but what they really want to do is sprint around for a bit then go back to bed

It might be worth you looking into whippets if you're interested in sighthounds as they're pretty biddable as hounds go.