Kratty

How do you interact with your doberman (and other dogs) on a daily basis

• What is your daily routine with your Dobermans? (Fetch, Frisbee, walks, dog parks, quiet play time together) How do you spend time with them?

• Are they included in running errands, car rides even if they just stay in the car?
• How does your Doberman spend their time, when you are not around?

• Do they have specific routines that they remind you to do things on their schedule? (Specific goody time, play time, etc.)

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DreamDoby

• What is your daily routine with your Dobermans? (Fetch, Frisbee, walks, dog parks, quiet play time together) How do you spend time with them?

We mainly have laid back days. The favorite activity here is to lay back on the couch and chew on a bone. We spend some time running like crazy in the backyard chasing eachother. Some training sessions sporadically during the day. The favorite is still cuddling on the couch.

• Are they included in running errands, car rides even if they just stay in the car?

They take turns running errands and going on car rides. I always have atleast one dog with me. That is their private time with me. They go to visit everyone and get spoil me time.

• How does your Doberman spend their time, when you are not around?

I hate to know the answer to this one. I like to think on the couch.

• Do they have specific routines that they remind you to do things on their schedule? (Specific goody time, play time, etc.)

All the time. Harmony likes to tell me she is ready to go to bed and crawls in her kennel. If the lights are still on in the other room or the TV is too loud, she comes in and stares at me until they are turned off and the TV is turned down. She likes it quiet and dark in the house. They are also my alarm clocks and wake me up everyday at the same time for work. I don't ever set my alarm clock. They know what days I work and these days we get up at this time and this is what we do on these days. On my days off, we get up a little earlier. They have it down perfectly. I'd never make it to work without them.

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MrDesi

My dobie and I keep each other in check. I don't let her get too silly and out of control and she does the same for me

From day one I have tried to keep the training regiment strong and to keep refreshing things on a daily basis (sit/stay/come/down/back/easy/teaching her self control in different situations/socialization), I try to make everything fun and exciting so she doesn't get bored of it.

To keep her teeth and gums healthy and shiny she gets a RMB (raw meaty bone) once a day during the day. She gets a rawhide chewy once a week.

8am-Lick my face clean to wake me up, take her outside to do her business, have a little romp play session and come back in to start the hard day being silly again.

9am-Feeding time. Prepare the meats, supplements and put them on her food table. Make her do a sit/stay before allowing her to attack the food. Repeat at 6pm.

During the day she goes out for long walks in intervals of approximately 4 hours. If its too cold or too hot out we don't spend as much time out.

We do approximately 3/4-1mile walk each interval ending each walk with some tennis ball throwing or just playing with other buddies that may be out.

Most of the time, if I know she will be in the car for short periods of time.

Playing with her toys, looking for ways to get back at me for leaving her home, sleeping.

"Daddy what are you still doing sleeping (8am sharp)", and feeding times are the routines that she never fails to forget. She gets long walks 3 times a day and lots of play and exercise in between so doesn't remind me of that (but that doesn't mean she doesn't start bouncing off the walls as soon as the thought occurs in my head).


Great thread topic.

Naveen

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alwayshadpets

Everyday is differant. The few things that never change are their eating times. They defiinitely will let me know about that.
Fetch is everyday. Training of some kind, but varied. Walks. Car rides, sometimes, depending where I`m going. A dog was stolen from a parked car while the owner was in the grocery store a few years back. This was a very nice area. In Nov. of this year, a couple from up North were shopping and their van was stolen along with their dog. They have put up fliers, worked with a rescue group. Last I heard the dog has not been recovered.
So leaving a dog unattended makes me a little nervous.
Strange habits. the lab brings gifts to people who come to the door--dog toys, bones, whatever he can find. Now Tamora, the dobie does too, but only when we come home.

brumwolf

My day starts about 5:30 to 6:00 am whatever the weather we saddle up and off we go over the fields where they chase rabbits (good exercise) back to the garden for some sit stay work even on the dark winter mornings,then its off to work for me but before i leave i hug and kiss all my pack (wife last of course)then when i return from work we go for another walk over the fields and some more O.B.stuff,then there is training nights and shows so my gang go pretty well everywhere with me.
Anywhere that has "No Dogs Allowed" signs is just not for me,we avoid places like that(although the supermarket is an exception )

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My favourite quote "If it's not a Doberman,It's just a dog" Anon

mojo

[quote=Kratty]How do you interact with your doberman (and other dogs) on a daily basis

[*]What is your daily routine with your Dobermans? (Fetch, Frisbee, walks, dog parks, quiet play time together) How do you spend time with them?
Up at 5am weekdays. Vary the times we leave for a walk due to the whinging from the dobe. Walk on leash for 45 min. OH takes the GSD for a walk/jog as he is dominant and I don't trust him with other big male dogs. Harley plays in the off leash park with the other dogs at this time. Afternoons are cuddle times followed by ball play and a bit of obediance. Weekends is a later start and usually involves a swim at the beach (he only will go in up to his chest). A hose down or full wash every other weekend.

[*]Are they included in running errands, car rides even if they just stay in the car?
No - not allowed in my new car unless its an emergency and our dog car is just to big and cumbersome for me to navigate around the city. Plus it is just way too hot here to leave dogs in a car for any period of time.
[*]How does your Doberman spend their time, when you are not around.
Sleeps most of the morning (I think) after his exercise. Digs the occasional hole in the garden and play fights with the GSD. If I am home he is glued to my side all day.
[*]Do they have specific routines that they remind you to do things on their schedule? (Specific goody time, play time, etc.)
Harley follows me around the house from 5pm onwards if I am home to let me know it's dinner time. He also sits facing me on the lounge pawing at me if I have not bought his doggie bed in so he can get his pats and cuddles and go to sleep if it is after 7pm.

Deville

I bring Diesel to work with me almost every day. I do small residential jobs throughout the city so he is almost always riding with me.

We come across a lot of new parks and other cool places in our travels, so I try and get him out at least once during the day to explore a new place.

If it's really cold or raining, Diesel is quite happy guarding my truck while I go inside the different houses.

He's never really alone, but the few times he is he just relaxes in his bed and chews on a bone or naps.

Then in the evening, it's a either a good walk or goofing around in the back yard.

I hope to one day soon live on an acreage where he can run all day long, but until then thats pretty much my routine.

Stone Hill Farm

This is our approximate schdule, of course things differ day to day.
5:45: Sora wakes me up by clicking tonails on wood floor. Then both girls go out for pee, etc. I go to barn with dogs to feed horses.

6:15: Make sure 15 year old daughter is up for school, make human breakfast. The dobergirls play or chew bones

7:00; Off to school, the puppy, Sora always goes with me in the truck where ever I go, unless I'll be in a store too long, I have a bed on the floor in the back seat area, with seats folded up. My senior, Holly, doesnt' really like to get in the truck anymore, She looks at me like "I've already seen it all, I think I'll sleep at home, thank you very much!" Then we run errands.

8:30: breakfast, then a rest for dogs, puppy in crate

9:30: off for a walk on property, off leash. They chase feild mice, rabbits and ground hogs. They also play in the stream, dig under trees etc. Once we get back home, it's time for training with the puppy, about 10 minutes then play time. Then I usually clean house (as little as possible!) or do paper work at my desk, dogs play or chew bones.

12:00 - 1:30: out again for pee, and then nap time for puppy in crate.Senior does what ever she wants, usually sleeps.

3:00 off to pick up at school, and then sometimes we go to petsmart or petco to train and pick up any items we need. In the afternoon I am usually at my desk, dogs play or chew, and go out when ever they want, for the last 10 days I have been trying to teach Sora to ring a bell on front door when she wants out. So far she rings it when I am standing there with my hand on door handle. One time she rang it on her own, but I think it was an accident!

6:00: Go for second walk, feed horses, hang out in barn for a little while.

6:30: Dinner for all, and puppy goes in crate to eat and stays for about an hour.

7:30: out for pee etc, and once back in, dogs play HARD for about 1 12 hours.

1O:00: Puppy in crate for an hour, this start the process of getting her sleepy, then outside

11:30 outside and then cuddle on couch with dogs so puppy stays sleepy. She now sleeps loose on couch all night. So far so good, knock on wood!

Then whole thing starts over again next morning! I love it!
I really don't know how I am going to get the excerize with puppy when snow is deep. any suggestions?

romanfoster

Weekdays - up and outside at 6:15 to potty; breakfast at 6:30; Julie - the oldest - gets to hang out with me while I get ready for work and Leo - the youngest - hangs out in his room. Weather permitting they chase squirrels in the backyard until about noon, otherwise, they nap in their rooms until their other mommy gets home from work; long walk around 2:00; a jog around 5:00 then training; dinner at 6:30; chew toys and lounging until bed time at 8:00

Tuesday night - obedience class

Thursday night - cousin Maui (Weimeraner) comes over to play in the yard; Leo and Maui are best friends and can run for hours; their favorite came is to each take one end of a stuffed animal and pull in separate directions until they tear its body in half and strew the stuffing out all over the yard, then they stand around with stuffing hanging from their mouthes and shout "Look at me Mom Look what I did aren't you proud!"

Saturday morning - dog socialization class from 9:00-10:00

On the occasionaly Saturday or Sunday - hiking

Julie W

Well today I loaded the dogs in the car and we dropped Donnie off at work, then went to Petsmart to shop for BIB's new girl Friday. After that we went to the park and hiked around in the woods for an hour and a half, then they sat in the car while I went grocery shopping. Now they are all hanging out with me in the living room while I type this. In a bit we will dremel everyones toenails and mow the yard together, and Cher will do some obedience in the backyard. Thursdays and Saturdays we have schutzhund club training, and every other Sunday we have race practice (which Cher gets to participate in also).

When we're gone all day at work the dogs are all in their indoor/outdoor kennel runs.

The only time they remind me it's time for something is around dinner time they all start milling around staring at me waiting for food to appear.

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