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?

[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

[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.

[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!

[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.

[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.

[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!

[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.

[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

[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