How long do you leave it between your dogs last nighttime walk and morning walk

[SunFleck]

We've recently got a dog and we are unsure whether or not we are making life unnecessarily tiring for ourselves by reducing how much sleep we are getting in order to walk her. We've noticed that almost nobody walks their dog when we time her last walk late at night despite taking her around a neighbourhood with plenty of dogs on a dog friendly route which includes going through a safe and overlooked grassy open space with trees and along the edge of a very large pond along an overlooked and illuminated (safe) path where you'd expect other dog walkers to go. Some nights not a single other dog walker is seen and we wonder where all the dogs are.

Can I ask, how long does your dog go between it's last opportunity to toilet one evening and then it's first outing to toilet the next day?

[Loubylou9162]

My 2 dogs sometimes don’t even get a walk every day! We have a big garden and the run around it like loons but we have a young baby and it’s hard to get every day with them. They are more than happy using the garden on those days.
Generally they get one 2 hour walk sometime in the day and use the garden to toilet if needed in between. Last wee at 10pm and they get up when we do so anytime between 5&7am

[Funf]

Short or long walk ( 5 or 30 mins) at about 05.30 or 7ish depending on work, home then food and treat hidden in a kong type thing.
Some times out for a walk at lunch time some times not. Never more than 3 hours on her own as we try to take her everywhere we go
Evening short 10 min walk longer if time about 7pm, garden for a wee at 10 pm, does it on command and gets straight in her crate!
If we for any reason can't walk her we do a 15-20 minute play time with her, only got little legs doesn't need much

[LittleCandle]

We nip out with the dogs just as we're going to bed, as the small dog has a bladder of the size of a pea (it seems!) and he refuses to go in the garden. He then goes out again about 8am, depending on how long he sleeps. The older dog can go for hours and hours and hours and always has been able to. He will go out and do the necessary in the garden, though.

[MaryLennoxsScowl]

Mine gets a toilet break outside about 9.30/10pm, about 5-25 minutes of dandering about usually, depending on my mood (pre-CV - now I take him down to the shared back garden for 5 mins) as we live in a flat and can’t just let him out the door, and can then last until 7.30 easily. At weekends he has his last pee later, maybe 10.30/11, and will generally sleep until 8.30 or 9.
CV has taught me and the dog that he doesn’t need a mid-morning toilet break either - he used to demand a walk between 10 and 11 as well as going out at lunchtime but when offered only a pee break in the garden instead he quickly decided that wasn’t enough fun to bother with and now waits until lunchtime!

[SunFleck]

OK thanks all. Yes we have a garden and she readily toilets in it which we discovered due to the Covid19 restrictions on going out. I couldn't decide if it was unfair on her for us to opt to using the garden to save ourselves going on a walk long-term but I think we do need to use a combination of walk/garden toileting going forward especially now that I know a lot of dogs are happy with that. She never seems desperate in the morning and sometimes doesn't even toilet so her last owner must have made her wait longer. We will push her morning toilet from 6am to 7am and we will also swap her last walk for the garden and see how it goes. Means we can provide her with a teatime walk which she was missing due to Covid19 exercise rules so gives her a more normal routine. Thank you all.

[InfiniteSheldon]

Mine are small enough to use the cat flap but they rarely go out at night. They both like a lie in and rarely get up til 11 ish. Both can go 12 to 14 hhours without a wee.

[maneandfeathers]

I prefer to walk mine once for a long walk. Usually 2 hours or so by the time I’ve sorted our horses En route etc. Occasionally I do go twice but they don’t expect a second walk.

Never have walked them late at night, just let them into the garden to the toilet for 5. They know the routine, quick wee and race to bed!

[Elouera]

Depending how large your dog is, get a 'doggy door' so the dog can go in and out to the garden when it likes. You can get ones with a matching collar, and it locks the door so only your pet can get inside.

[Thepigeonsarecoming]

Morning and evening wee in the garden, or whenever he cries to go (normally to chase birds or sniff hedgehogs). Last walk is tea time

[Girlintheframe]

Meant to say, he goes in the garden for his morning wee.

[Girlintheframe]

Our dog get one long walk a day. That could be at any time during the day. He then gets a small round the block walk any time between 7.30pm -8.30pm. That's when he does his last wee. He doesn't go again until he gets up in the morning (6-7am) He has always been like this, just not interested/needing the toilet after early evening.

[Methyl]

My girl wakes me about 6am and we go out for a walk then. She then sleeps all day and re-emerges from the bedroom sometime between 3 and 5pm, when we go for our second walk. Then I pop her outside for a wee around 9-10pm, and she sleeps all night. She's a nine year old spoodle.

[Floralnomad]

I very rarely walk my dog after about 4;30 pm . He goes in the garden for his last toilet break at 10pm and his first garden visit in the morning is usually between 8:30-9:30 am .

[Sforsh49]

Ours gets one walk a day and then goes in the garden. Has a bladder of steel and has been known to go 22 hours between wees and only went out in the garden then as I got a court order and evicted him from the fluffy blanket on the sofa 🤣 He's always had a strong bladder and at nearly 11 years old shows no signs of it changing! Although being a terrier if he thinks there's a mouse or a squirrel in the garden he's pretty good at the kitchen door Hokey Cokey!!

[Lazypuppy]

He goes out in garden for final wee before we go to bed, same in the morning, and he gets his walk about 10am, and sometimes a 2nd walk about 4ish, but not every day

[CMOTDibbler]

My dogs go out for a last wee at 7.30, and then go out in the morning at about 7am - but in the garden though, not for a walk!

[fitflopqueen]

mine has a cast iron bladder, goes out between 10-30 - midnight for last wee then happy to stay in bed (humans) till I get up, can do 10 hrs easy and more.

[CallmeAngelina]

We've never walked ours last thing at night. God, who needs that?!! When he was little, we'd send him out to the front garden on an extendable lead, so we could be sure he was doing a wee and not just mucking around.
Now he's older (9 tomorrow), he usually goes into the back garden for a mooch around last thing at night and must do one then, as he then lasts through until sometimes 9am the next morning (depends on whether we're up for work/weekend).

[cowfacemonkey]

If you don't have a garden I wouldn't bother with a proper walk late at night just train him to pee on command in a certain spot nearest your house. Dogs are creatures of habit once he knows that's his pee spot before bed he'll do it there and then like clockwork

[Abraid2]

And she will go from 10pm until 7am.

[Abraid2]

We only do one walk a day and always have done, with the exception of the puppy/teen years. Our small dog spends quite a lot of time in the garden and we also play games with her indoors. She is slim and happy.

[cowfacemonkey]

Oh sorry missed the point of your actual post. He goes out to pee last thing in the garden at about 9am and can hold it for bloody ages - He won't get up in the morning for a pee unless I force him out of bed. I think the longest he's gone is 14 hours.

[HollyBollyBooBoo]

Ours just has one long walk a day and goes in the garden to the toilet at any other time.

[cowfacemonkey]

On a normal work say he is walked at 8am and then again at 2pm. At weekends we don't go out until 11am, he's happy to lay in bed as long as I am! We still have our last walk no later than 3pm.

[MissShapesMissStakes]

Our dog is used to one long walk a day, or two shorter walks (pre CV).

Since he came to us at 10 weeks he's been able to go from 10pm ish last week in the garden, to 7.30 am. He amazed us! I don't think most puppies can do that though and we didn't push him to. We were more than prepared for night time toilet trips.

I really think it depends on age a lot. Assuming you don't have a garden.