Exercising Your Dog Indoors During Winter

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Exercising Your Dog Indoors

In a recent post, I wrote about the important of monitoring your dog’s weight during the winter to make sure that your friend doesn’t gain weight from any lower amount of exercise because of cold weather out there.  Looks like some dog owners out there have trained their dogs to keep active indoors no matter what the temperature is outside.

These dachshunds in the video below have really taken exercising indoors at heart by working out on their owner’s threadmill machine.  Notice that their tails are even wagging so it looks like they do enjoy the activity.

Keep Fit All Year Round With Your Dog

These dogs are a great example that there is no excuse, even cold weather, to slack off in terms of fitness.  If you and your dog can’t go outside because of bad weather, do something active indoors whether it’s running up and down the stairs or chasing a ball across a room.

If dogs can be trained to keep fit, so can we.  This is why dogs have the added benefit of keeping us fit as well as long as we feel guilty if we let our beloved pets get out of shape which is a real no-no to their health.  If you really love your pet, you will do whatever you can to keep them healthy during all four seasons.

Although dog owners today can potty train their dogs to use an indoor litter box and therefore avoid bad weather walks outside, it is not a replacement for exercise.  My two dogs Chester and Roxie still get exercise indoors if it’s extremely miserable outside.

Dogs don’t know any better in regards to their own health and fitness so as dog owners, we have the responsibility to care for them in a way that they are as healthy as possible at all times.