As a pet parent, the most crucial role you have is to provide a safe and happy home for your Doodle.
Like people, every dog needs a combination of regular health check-ups, vigorous exercise, and the best nutrition possible for a long, happy life.
Regardless of your Doodle’s size, getting enough exercise every day will keep it happy and healthy. As a bonus, allow you and your Doodle to strengthen your relationship over time.
We recommend 30 minutes of vigorous activity every day for an adult dog, though individual considerations may increase or decrease the amount of time for training.
Exercise provides an enormous amount of benefits for your Goldendoodle is the same as it is with people.
- Improved Digestion: Exercise helps the body digest food and produce waste more efficiently.
- Increased Cardiovascular Function: With vigorous daily exercise, your Goldendoodle’s heart and lung health will strengthen and improve for better health.
- Manage Weight: An active lifestyle will help your Doodle manage its weight to prevent heart issues and complications with flexibility and joints in older-aged pets.
- Improved Flexibility: Vigorous movement strengthens and elongates the muscles as well as keeps the joints flexible. Flexibility is crucial to prevent injury, especially as your Doodle ages.
- Enhanced Mental Function: Dogs without enough stimulation and exercise can develop negative behaviors, anxiety issues, and distemper. A Doodle needs regular exercise to calm its mind, which will cause the body to produce mood-enhancing neurochemicals that will alleviate this anxiety.
- Strengthen The Skeletal-Muscular System: Vigorous exercise will stress your pet’s muscles, a critical function for overall health and wellbeing.
- Correct Negative Behaviors: Dogs will communicate through actions, so if your Doodle is exhibiting negative traits, it may be a symptom of anxiety or a lack of stimulation or bonding. A routine will calm the mind and make your Doodle happier. As the saying goes, “a tired dog is a happy dog.”
One bonus to a daily exercise routine is allowing your Doodle to explore its environment and surroundings.
Dogs rely on their sense of sniff to engage with and explore their environment to discover food sources and whether there are potential threats in the area.
If you need ideas for things to do that will engage your Goldendoodle and get it the exercise it needs, we have a few suggestions for you.
Before you begin any exercise routine, there are a few things you need to consider first, such as what is your Doodle’s fitness level, its age, and the weather and terrain around your activities?
Here’s a suggestion of 4 activities you can do every day to get your Doodle the exercise it needs and engage its curiosity as well.
