How much exercise for a non-high energy dog?

[Caty M]

Bishop is a low to medium energy dog, Tess, is well, just odd. Sometimes she's a lazy lump and other times she sprints around at 800 miles an hour doing furniture olympics. Both are happy with an hour walk and play time in the backyard.

[nikkiluvsu15]

I've never had a low-energy dog, but Harleigh is honestly the bomb about going without exercise. Like today, I'm just feeling overall crappy (horribly jammed my finger playing football, lightheaded, ankles hurt... in other words I'm getting old, LOL) and just do NOT feel like going out. Even if it does feel absolutely AH-MAZING. This is the time I yearn for a fenced in yard... so I can just let her out there and sit without "worrying".

Anyways, back on track - I think that if your dog looks good and gets exercise then its fine. In the summer we usually don't go for many walks, but we do lots of swimming and fetching. In fall/winter we do swimming (I'll be sure to post those picture while everyone is freezing up north/out west - I know, I'm terrible ), hiking, fetching, walking/jogging and maybe a few various other things. Oh and agility all year long.

[magicre]

i have a twelve year old corgi mix and a pug....

they get walked for pee walks twice a day...and they walk a mile a day with me...no stops...

when we are done, the pug is panting and the corgi mix is panting....and then they sleep....

we also play inside periodically during the day simply for the purpose of intimate contact between them and me...and they play with each other a few times a day.

if the weather is terrible, they walk on the treadmill that we got for all of us....

heat and inclement weather ...not good for brachycephalic dogs....

priority is.....

if we can go out, we do. for me. for them.

[Celt]

Aahh, the joys of owning 25 mph couch potatoes. My two are perfectly willing to go sprinting around the dog park (we finally got a real one) or crashing on a soft place. They would much rather curl up under some blankets, preferably snuggled up to someone, than go outside during "bad" weather. Getting the boys to go out in cloudy/wet weather is a trial. It so hard to insist they go outside when they give me this pitiful, flat ear, big eyes, "scrunched up" body look of "do I have to" and then the look over the shoulder of "please don't torture me". And when they come in, they shake their bodies like they had been drenched. But overall, mine do just fine with a couple of romps in the backyard, some furniture olympics, games of fetch or tug, and find it games (usually it's a pick 2 activities kinda deal probably about an hour or 2 of exercise. If these guys were people, they would be the kind that prefers to curl up with a good book and a cup of coco on "bad" weather days.