Let’s Go For A Walk!

Tiger Lilly was 4 plus years old when she joined our family in January, and knew some tricks and habits that we had nothing to do with. She doesn’t chew on things (thank goodness!) but when she is excited she picks up whatever is nearby and brings it to us to play. It might be one of her toys, but it could be a dish towel grabbed off its hook or a stray sock left on the floor.

The thing that she is most excited about is going for a walk.  When our alarm goes off in the morning, she picks up one of my husband’s slippers and paces from one side of our bed to the other, wagging her tail until one of us gives in to its thump-thump-thump against the bed frame and gets up.

I never realized how long 5 minutes can seem until I’ve had to brush my teeth, splash water on my face, run a brush through my hair, and pull on some sweats with a 60-pound beast pacing around me. She does her part to help me get ready more quickly.

Between her brisk pace (generally somewhere between 16-20 min miles, depending on sniff breaks) and the steep hills in my neighborhood, our walks do get my heart rate up. After a few weeks of walking her once or twice a day, I noticed that my legs were tired and I was hungrier. I decided to start logging our walks in Daily Mile to see if they really were having an impact.

I was impressed to see that I logged 40 miles of dog walks in February!

Do you “count” your dog walks?

Do you know how many miles you log at the other end of the leash?