What do you do with your dogs when they hate the rain .

[hattie43]

This rain has been going on and on and I’m bored stuck inside . My woosie dogs hate the rain . Other than coffee shops what can we do together that keeps us entertained and an opportunity to get out the house .

My dogs don't mind the rain, but they also enjoy a visit to the garden centre and a mooch around a pet shop!

Just leave them at home and go out to do whatever you want?

Dogs aren't children, you can leave them at home if you want to go out for a couple of hours.

No shit Sherlock. 🙄

Thankyou. I do leave them at home together quite a lot but when I’m home I like to be with them and do things to get them out the house , I’m struggling i
guess with these days and days of rain .

But what you want isn't necessarily what they want - if they're happy at home I would just leave them be and be grateful you don't need to deal with soggy wet dog smell

Trip to pets at home? But I always end up buying stuff 🤦🏻‍♀️ or a country pub. Or any shop in my town centre it seems (when did people start taking dogs to primark?!).

i love dogs but people have lost all understanding of appropriate places imo - I do think dog friendly coffee shops and most pubs are appropriate if dog is well behaved and most are ime. I have a spaniel and she’s an idiot who will go out and actively seek water/mud to splash in then look sad when being bathed in clean water 🙄😂

One of my dogs hate the rain and refuses to go out in it. If we are out walking and it starts to rain, she just stops and refuses to move. 😬

We have a lovely local cafe and tea room that my dogs love as they get a treat and lots of attention. We also have a dog soft play locally 😂. They absolutely love that.

Other than that, we go to the garden centre, pub or stay home. They love to just sit and snooze with us to lie all over.

@FridayFeelingIsTheBest Dog soft play! Really?? Where is that? How does it work?

My dog also hates the rain, I tend to just get her out between showers on particularity bad days.
@FridayFeelingIsTheBest I too am intrigued by doggie soft play?

I heard there was a dog soft play place in Somerset? Looks such fun - but I’m a total fun sponge to my boy 😳

anyways, it’s raining? Just go out. DDog won’t poo in the garden, so he has to go for a walk - like it or not!

You could try getting them used to it.

Take the dog out into the rain for a few minutes and play a game, or do a little basic training with lots of rewards. Make it fun.

Slowly build up the time between rewards, and stay out longer, as the dog gets used to the rain.

And best of all - get them used to being out in the rain when they're puppies or very young. I've had at least one puppy who didn't like the rain, but rain was what she got - she was jollied through it with food rewards and ended up entirely weather-proof.