[Indessasp]

I wake up around 630 or 7 and take Baloo on a short walk just to wake him up enough to pee. Then I feed him and get ready and he usually eats and goes right back to sleep (he's not a morning person). Then I go to class around 730 and get back around lunch. Then we go on a 40ish minute walk or jog if it's not too hot. Then he usually cycles between little naps while i do work and playing inside til dinnertime. Then he hits his hyper stage around 7 so I'll take him out to the field behind my apartment with a long lead and let him get his butt-running out ( when he runs so fast his butt is touching the ground. aka zoomies) and we usually work on obedience stuff while we're out there. I've been making him do a lot of sitting and staying far away while I throw his ball. Hard stuff. And he'll come back and play some more and go on another short walk before bed around 10.

[Abnorttrano]

Don't really have a routine. As long as the dogs get fed & exercised sometime during the day, it's all good.

I can relate.

We kind of have an outlined routine. But it leaves room for error.

5:30am My husband gets up for work and lets Sasha out. Feeds her breakfast and She then returns to bed until around 8:30 or 9:00 when my daughter and I get up. We then go for our walk sometime between 9:30 and 11:00. After that she chills out in front of the TV and that is pretty much the afternoon (with potty breaks every few hours). Then around 4pm she gets her dinner. Around 7 we go out for our evening walk.

Obviously this is our summer schedule. It will change in the fall/winter and once I'm working and going to school

[Michael-jeckson2]

I have special needs dogs, so my routines are simple. Lola is older and prefers to sleep, but she does get walked for an hour each evening with Rocky, who suffers from ataxia. He can't walk much on account of his weird gate causes him to rotate his pads on the ground, which causes blisters and chafing. He can chase the flirt pole, but I have to be extra careful with that because I'm risking spinal or ACL injury with him. Sedona is afraid of the outdoors, so her exercise is hard on me... I walk/carry her a distance from the house (she has to be walked separately from the other two), and allow her to pull me back She gets winded faster than I do, though. None of them chase anything, play with anything, tug anything. Rocky and Lola have good prey drive, but Sedona has absolutely none.

I wish I had better advice on how to exercise normal dogs.

[milfovoxapl]

My alarm goes off around 6:30 AM, but my screaming/whining puppy goes off around 6:00 AM so I really don't need the alarm.

Get up and take Skylar & Diesel outside to do their "business". Bring them in...feed Diesel in his room, feed Skylar in her room...close the doors and then go upstairs to get the other 2 boys (Diego and Tyson). Let them outside to run/play while I prepare their bowls of food and water. Bring their food/water outside. They eat and play outside. Diesel and Skylar play inside after I leave for work or put in their crates if my gf isn't over at the house. GF let's them in around 11 before she leaves for work and they go to their room. Crates Diesel and Skylar goes to her room. I come home at lunch and let them play outside a bit more (with me out there)...then back in their crates.

After work - play time in the living room. Rotate who is in the living room and who is upstairs. We usually only let them play in pairs for now as we are introducing the new puppy. Sometimes we'll get 3 at a time for a while, but if it's overwhelming we'll go back to the pairs thing.

[LoohornePharp]

Don't really have a routine. As long as the dogs get fed & exercised sometime during the day, it's all good.

That's probably best. Ike is the Keeper of Routine. He doesn't allow me to sleep in on weekends because he knows I am supposed to be up and have them fed no later than 7:30am and again at 6:30pm. If I hadn't gotten him into a routine I would be able to sleep in on the weekends and give have some slack in the evenings if I am busy. But because we had such a routine for so long time he gets upset and barky-whiney if I am not on time.