Working people - and dogs

gettingready

Sitting at work just looked out of the window and it is DARK.

Hate this time of the year as the only way I can take Zara out myself is on a lead as can not let her run off the lead in the dark.

Weekdays I mean.

She gets a good walk off lead with the dog walker at midday but with me - on lead only....

Sigh....

Waiting for the clocks change back to what it was before and to longer days

Grrrr

Mulder00

We don't walk ours off the lead, but I still dislike this time of year. I'd hate for our two to be all lonely in the dark at home.

skintandscared_2

Our little Ted is never off the lead either (except when he's doing huge circuits round our back garden LOL). He's so little, and doesn't like running too far away from us out in public thank goodness, so his extendable lead is long enough for him to run as far as he wants to.

joansgirl

I'm really lucky because 5 minutes from my house is some waste ground that many dog walkers use. When it's dark Bailie goes off lead over there. She has a couple of small bike lights clipped to her collar so I can see her and I'm armed with a torch. Tonight I'm meeting 2 friends with their dogs and we will probably stand in the middle of a field, with the dogs off lead chasing each other around, all shining our torches at them. They will have fun running around and getting tired (hooray, a quiet night ahead) and we will freeze!

codemonkey

It's a bit rubbish for Captain Dumbass because the places we took him in the summer have no lights so we can't walk him there in the dark.

Thankfully he gets a good dash around with his dog walker and his doggy pals at lunch time. He does get off the lead, because we walk on a path away from the road and he doesn't like to let me out of his sight. I end up just running a lot with him chasing me to help tire him out.

Dimey

You can get inexpensive night lights to plug in electric sockets, that turn themselves on when it gets dark; from Wilkinsons or Lidls, so your dogs & cats aren't sitting in the dark waiting for you to come home.

I have pretty amber ones from Wilkinsons and I have some from Lidls that change colour. They are good for security because from outside it looks like someone has the TV on.

krlyr

I'm enjoying the peace and quiet we get on the dark, wet nights - much less dodging of dogs required!

Wellyboots6

LS hates the dark, gets very jumpy and even more reactive than usual.
He gets a good run at the weekends, but during the week it is lots of short road walks and indoor training.
Can't even do a long road walk with him in an evening because he starts to get very stressed and ends up lunging at traffic.
It's going to be a looooong winter!

con1888

I don't like the dark and Logan picks up on that, especially as I am pregnant atm so he goes very protective.

He gets walked during the day for at least an hour, in the evenings either OH walks him or I do some indoors/in garden training with him to tire him out or go out in the garden and run about playing with his ball.

krlyr

Shame about LS. Mine aren't bothered by the dark (previous house was down on a farm so very little in the way of street lighting) and it makes it harder for them to see dogs across the road or around the corner. We even walked right past the drive of someone and I only realised last minute that they were standing at their front door with their Greyhound - my two remained completely clueless!

adouglasmhor

One of my lads hates the dark at this time of year - but once fireworks are past he gets better. As they are retired racers they never get walked of the lead anyway.