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meandmyskate
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He's my first, and I've always played the concerned first parent roll, so I wouldn't be surprised if this is just that.
That being said, I have a 1 year old Great Dane/Boxer mix. I take him out to the dog park pretty much every day. As the season's begun to change and it's getting lighter and warmer for longer, we've stayed out longer. For the past three months, we'd go out for about 45 minutes and when we got home, he'd nap for a couple of hours and be pretty chill for the rest of the night. This week I was off sick from work, and as it was beautiful and he still needed his exercise, I took him in the middle of the day for longer. We'd alternate between 30 minutes of fetch on land, and 30 minutes of fetch in the lake for a total of an hour and a half to two hours. For the last week when I've brought him home he's gotten some water and went straight to bed, and other than readjusting, finding a new resting place, or getting more food or water, pretty much sleeps the rest of the day and night.
While he looks content, and he's obviously getting plenty of exercise and thus mellow when he is awake. I'm concerned about over-exercising him. He's not bruised, doesn't appear to have soreness in joints, or anything. I'm just concerned cause my boy is sleeping so much. And...I do get that his exercise increased drastically in a very short period of time and that's probably causing most of it...I'm just concerned about how healthy it is for him to sleep so much.
Thoughts?
That being said, I have a 1 year old Great Dane/Boxer mix. I take him out to the dog park pretty much every day. As the season's begun to change and it's getting lighter and warmer for longer, we've stayed out longer. For the past three months, we'd go out for about 45 minutes and when we got home, he'd nap for a couple of hours and be pretty chill for the rest of the night. This week I was off sick from work, and as it was beautiful and he still needed his exercise, I took him in the middle of the day for longer. We'd alternate between 30 minutes of fetch on land, and 30 minutes of fetch in the lake for a total of an hour and a half to two hours. For the last week when I've brought him home he's gotten some water and went straight to bed, and other than readjusting, finding a new resting place, or getting more food or water, pretty much sleeps the rest of the day and night.
While he looks content, and he's obviously getting plenty of exercise and thus mellow when he is awake. I'm concerned about over-exercising him. He's not bruised, doesn't appear to have soreness in joints, or anything. I'm just concerned cause my boy is sleeping so much. And...I do get that his exercise increased drastically in a very short period of time and that's probably causing most of it...I'm just concerned about how healthy it is for him to sleep so much.
Thoughts?