Would anyone be kind enough to describe a typical day for your DDog?

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We are one step closer to adopting a dog. As first time dog owners we are pretty clueless about a dog's typical daily routine, other than it includes walks, food and sleep! We have only ever had cats and they sort themselves out really! Thanks in advance.

My ddog is nearly 4. During term time (I work in a school), he has a walkway 6 with dh, then his breakfast. Plays with me or the children until 8, when we leave him. He pretty much sleeps most of the time, unless I've forgotten to empty the bin, which he then very kindly empties. I come home at 1230 to go for a quick walk, I'm back in work at 1.30. Home by 3.30, he plays in the garden, tea at 5.30. Dh games him for a last walk around 9pm. Always let him out for a wee when we go to bed, and often he asked me for a wee, or to chase a fox at about 2am.
During school hols, a bit more relaxed walking times, and mainly chill with him.

Two dogs here, 3 and 5 years. Border collie gets up with me at 6 am on working days, has half his breakfast. Jack Russell stays in bed.
Both up at 8 am with DH, Breakfast, out into garden. Out for long walk at 9. Back around 12. Sleep or potter for afternoon.
Go mad when I get home at 5 pm. Shorter walk at about 6.30 for anything between 30 to 60 minutes. Cuddle time on sofa then bed at around 10.

It depends what breed of dog you have as to how active they are my friend who owns Collies which are quite an active breed does a hour walk in the morning they have an hour with the dog walker during the day then another hour or so when he gets home from work or he sometimes takes them swimming or does agility class at weekends he does a long hike or goes to agility events. He says they sleep during the day while he is at work but are quite active all evening despite the long walk.

sorry, haven't read everyone else's.

we adopted a rescue aged 3. Mad full of energy springer spaniel.

when we get up - let him out for a wee
when I am dressed, to be fair usually early ish (between 7 and 9) we go out for our big walk. 1hour-1.5 hours, mostly off lead, mostly very active.
dental treat and couple of treats when we get home.

during the day (we work form home) - sleep, potters round garden, sleeps, barks at trucks out fo the lounge window, sleeps, gets bored and brings us a tug rope to play with.

Loves it when something happens eg visitor, but happy as long as one of us is around, if I'm out he goes upstairs and sleeps under dh desk.
gets let out a couple of times for a wee.

4pm - kids in form school and play with him for a bit

6pm - dinner (he is only fed once per day)

7-8 pm - dh takes him out for a walk/run/round th eblock for 30 minutes. If dh out, he doesn't get evening walk.

10-11 - last wee (but he never actually wees) and then he goes up and sleeps on ds bed all night.

OK so I'm thinking
Up at 6am in the week (get up then anyway) let dog out in garden for a wee. Will have to get a dog that will wee in garden. Will make sure I double check that with foster.
Breakfast
Take dog in car on school run, walk after school run at 8.15 am.
Home, potter about, sleep, play with toys, whatever
Longer walk after school run, 4pm ish for an hour
Tea
Final short walk or let out in garden for final wee
Bed

On Thurs and Fri when I work, I will get my Dad to do a 15 min walk between 8-8.30 (they are in my house then as they drop youngest DS to school)
Dog walker will do longer walk in middle of day

Is that too confusing, to have longer walk at different times on the days I work?
Am I overthinking this?

Dogs don't have lunch do they🤔

we fostered a few dogs before adopting this one.
While it is possible for a foster carer to give you some low down on the dog do be aware that the dog may have only been with them for a few weeks, and that dogs do change as they settle.

a few examples:
our dog weed everywhere all the time in foster care. He was fostered with other dogs, and new dogs came and went all the time. After a bit of research I realise that he was super submissive to every other dog, and weeing is one way of showing it. He never wees in the house now, and I can predict when he will (so if large man with a deep voice arrives at the door, one of us will quickly open back door and dog goes out and wees) He has also become more confident with other dogs on walks, which hasn't been 100% positive, as he shows that by occasionally suddenly barking in their face, which doens't go down well.

he didn't bark at all until we had had him for a year, now he has definitely found his voice.

We used to let him out for wees every hour (see above!) as he settled, he drank less, and weed less. Now he will choose to wait until his morning walk to wee, and rarely wees when let out last thing at night, which might mean 12 hours between wees!

He will only poo out of the house, and on grass. So he waits for his walk. If we are out for the day, one of us always walks him to make sure he had poohed. He poohs about 4 times on that morning walk, and then not again that day. When we first had him, he pooed in the garden, now it is HIS garden, he won't poo there!

Is that too confusing, to have longer walk at different times on the days I work?

My dog has different schedules on different days. He just gets used to having no routine so don't worry about that.

What you do need to think about though is whether the dog is ok with group walks for your dog walker. Some dogs don't really get on with others and wouldn't be able to be walked in a group. You can get dog walkers to do individual walks but they cost more and will typically be at different times as they tend to do groups in the middle of the day.

Very good point BiteyShark thank you.
I will add it to my list of questions .
Poor foster person, whoever they end up being, feel like I have 100 questions!

My Auntie's neighbour has a lovely dog walker so I will speak to her once I know what the dog needs. Don't mind paying a bit more for individual walks if necessary might as well give up work and do it myself

6.00 am up, couple biscuits each
6.30 am walk 20 -30 mins
Clean and dry off (we're farmland beside a river so tends to be muddy)
8.30 am walk for an hour, sometimes two. Clean up again.
10.30 am feed change water pick up any poo in garden
5.30 walk again about an hour. Clean up.
7.00pm main feed
8.30 ish dog chew
11pm out to do business then bed.

I'm lucky that I'm home all day, but the above routine works well for our dogs.

Is that too confusing, to have longer walk at different times on the days I work?

I would say that since we have had our dog, we have got more into a routine where he gets walked first thing, and so now he expects it. In the beginning he would not expect a walk until we got his lead out.

So your dog will adapt to your routine.

DDog1 - old, arthritic lab.
DDog2 - 7 yo border terrier
DDog3 - 2 yo cocker spaniel

6:14 Awake, 6:16 out in garden for a wee x 3
(If no alarm at 6:15, DD1 assumes alarm clock duty by dragging me into a sitting position, assisted by DD3 who is given permission to provide the audio.)
Breakfast x 4
DD2 retreats to bed. She’s not a morning dog!
6:30 enthralling entertainment for DD1&3 - bowls get washed up, dog beds shaken out in the garden, sometimes the floor in the dog room is mopped. If so, it must immediately get new paw prints.
DD1&3 up the road to mooch, sniff and pee, 15 mins, 100metres.
DD3 walk and maybe some training, 30 mins.
Dry if damp, check paws. Wipe up the worst of the mud in the hallway.

DD1&2 guard duty and naps, (involves making nests with cushions, throws, toys, towels, digging up the carpet in the corners (DD2), and sprinkling with shoes and shredded things from the garden (DD1), they might potter round after DH once he’s awake, occasionally dig in the garden, paddle in the pond, snack on my strawberries and whatever the postman brings...
DD3 usually comes to work with me, and we’re nearly always home for lunch.
Snacks at lunch time.
Round the field for 20mins or so x 3.
DD1 vacuums around the gate, DD2 hunts the hedges, DD3 blurs around, swims in the pond, and sometimes gets some training.
Dry if damp, check paws. Brushing, fur and teeth. Ear wiping (usually just DD1, who has grotty ears.)

Repeat of the morning.

Dinner x 3 after evening exercise.
Naps, cuddles. Cut claws (have to sneak up and usually only manage one claw a day on DD2).
Up the road about 10 x 3
DD3 zoomies in field, 20 mins.
Bedtime at 11ish - DD3 is the only one still scooting about - the older dogs settle in their beds after their last airing.

Our pup has different routines on different days and copes fine. The only thing that stays the same is meal times and the 20 minutes round the block at night.
Each to their own but I deliberately avoided a routine as much as possible because our days vary so much.
When I'm not at work we go for a 1.5-2 hour walk each day but the time of that could be 1st thing in the morning or late afternoon depending on what else I've got on. I didn't want pup expecting a walk at a certain time as it's not always possible and pup would have ended up stressed/frustrated if he wasn't getting his walk at the expected time.

7am - they stir. They try and catch my eye from where they sleep (on the landing). I wish I'd closed the bedroom door. They want breakfast. Don't move and lie still I think to myself. One movement and they'll hear I'm awake and then bust into my room.

7.30am - I give in. I get up and let them out into the garden, make a cup of tea and feed them. This is NOT FUN in very cold winter. Note to self, Finally learn how to set the timer on the boiler this year.

8am - they go back to bed and loudly snore for an hour, happy with their full bellies. I resent them slightly, wishing I could go back to bed and snore loudly too.

9am - we traipse to the local park for a walk. See note above about winter. We do 45 mins each morning.

10am - DDogs1&2 laze in bed while I work from home.

11.20am - its time to bark at the post man!

12pm - cuppa tea and a wee. I make a cuppa tea. They go for a wee. I have lunch and they watch me eat it, hoping I'll drop a crumb.

2pm - I'm soooo bored with work. I lie on the floor pretending to be dead to see if either of them care. They don't. One dog forcibly sticks his face in my hand for a stroke.

3pm - another tea and wee. If it's nice weather, I'll throw a ball in the garden for ten.

As we edge closer to 4pm, They begin to get hopeful that I'm going to cave in and feed them early. Despite this never once happening in 9/12 years, they still try it on.

5pm - i throw them out for another quick wee and feed them again.

5.30pm- DH comes home. This brings them much delight!!!

6pm - we eat our dinner. They lie down and pretend not to beg, but I know they secretly have one eye on us for dropped crumbs.

6.20-10pm - much snoring and farting. Then it's time for another wee and bed!

7am or earlier.
Out of crate and tummy tickled.
8-10 mile run off lead
Home for hose off if very muddy then breakfast

Sits at bottom of stairs whilst we have tea in bed.
Either settles at home whilst we work or off to daycare.

Lunchtime walk of about 2 miles sniffing off lead.
Bark at anyone going over the stile by office window.
Later afternoon final walk with ball throwing or swimming at beach. Usually sits in car whilst I pop into shop briefly to post a parcel or but milk or similar.

If we go out for supper or to friends, he usually comes. At home he sits on our feet. He’s quite clingy.
Bed in crate about 10pm.

Obviously different if we’re on holiday.

@Dec2019mumtobe that did make me chuckle You should write a doggy blog!