Hi,
Could anyone give me any guidance please?
I have a nine month old Chesapeake who of course is raring to go! But wherever I look there doesn’t seem to be a guide for how much exercise a pup should have. Is there anywhere a sliding guide up from 2 months to fully mature about distance for exercise?
E.g.
2 months – a walk around the garden
3 months - a walk around the garden
4 months – 1 mile?
……….Etc
……….Etc
I know every dog is different but I don’t want to do too much.
Thanks
John

Hell I have a 6 week old chessie pup. He runs 5 miles pulling 20lbs and he is only 10 lbs. (Kidding)

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Originally posted by Moscowitz:
Hell I have a 6 week old chessie pup. He runs 5 miles pulling 20lbs and he is only 10 lbs. (Kidding)

And up a hill both ways..

From what I get each dog is different...

I haven't heard of anything definitive. The growth plates in Chessie bones seem to close fairly late - I'd guess between a year and 1 1/2 years. It's hard to keep their feet on the ground, but I try not to do a lot of either jumping at shoulder height or sports that put a lot of pounding on the bones (I train obedience and agility, and I have trained for flyball) until the dog is a minimum of a year old.

That's just my take on it, Claire

Thanks guy's I didn't realise I'd get the Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In routine. What a bonus!
(PS that's the only American comedy? duo I can recall)

Claire,
Thanks for the response. I'm currently doing a 6 mile running session with my nine month (me running him walking quickly). This means occasionally he breaks into a run for short periods, the rest of my run he stays to heal. I do this 3 times a week. I just wanted to make sure this was not overload. He seems very happy about it.

John

Hi!

I posted the same question to a Vet employed by a insurance company to answer these kind of questions and this was his answer (in Swedish, I shall translate):

Det väsentliga är inte hur långa promenader eller hur lång tid en ung hund
motioneras. Det väsentliga är HUR motionen ser ut.
Det är olämpligt att utsätta sin hund för ensidig långvarig motion t.ex.
springa med Dig i motionsspåret km efter km, cykelmotion på liknande sätt.
Unghunden måste ha möjlighet att vila och ta igen sig under motionspassen.
Den
skall kunna hålla sin egen takt och inte tvingas hålla högt tempo under
lång
tid.
Även på Friskis och Svettis finns inlagda perioder då tempot är lägre och
pulsen kan gå ner och leder och muskler får vila.

Translation:

The most important is not how long walks or how long time a young dog is exersized. The importance is on what kind of exersize. It is not good to expose the dog to onesided monotonous exersize for a long time, for example running with you kilometre after km, bicycleexersize etc. The yound dog needs the possibility to recuperate during the exersize. It must be able to run in its own pace and should not be forced to keep a high speed during a long time. Even when grown up humans exersize/do workout etc there are periods when the pace is lower, the pulse goes down and muscles gets rested.