Walking in the field

Winston finally seems to have recovered from swimming. I still can't push him too much, but he's comfortable again. We walk for 25 minutes in the morning and that takes us through the field at the back of our neighborhood. Prior to this week it was waist-high grass and both dogs enjoyed trotting through the grass and searching for rodents. I'm using the flexi-leads again, so they've got 25 feet available for use, and in the field they're usually both out at the end of the leads. It's a nice mid-walk break for me too where I don't have to worry about cars or dogs or people or other distractions.

Our afternoon walk is usually around 4pm, and it's been hot, so we've only been able to go 10 minutes which keeps us in the shade.

Sometimes we get to go for another short walk at 6pm, but it depends on what else is going on. It's usually still hot, so we've kept the time down.

Our evening/night walk is at sunset and usually it's cooled down a lot. While Winston was sore from swimming I had to keep that to 10 minutes too, but now we're trying to extend that a bit. I'd like to do another 25 minutes, but that might be too much. Last night we went just over 15 minutes so maybe we'll try for 20 tonight and see how things go.

Speaking of walking, the dogs are hovering around me because it's that time and they're very hopeful!