Gonzo's favorite summer exercise is swimming! We have a really awesome lake literally across the street from us (Folsom Lake), I walk him there and walk him around the trails and he retrieves his floating frizbee for 1 hour. This is becoming a daily thing now that it's nice outside. My sister takes him on 5-mile jogs through the park a few days a week, she's really athletic, and it can be difficult for Gonzo to keep up with HER! Besides that, he gets walks for about 3 miles every evening and sometimes in the morning. On top of that, I try to take him to the huge park every evening to play frizbee & fetch; if not, I play fetch with him in the backyard for about 2 hours, 1 hour each session. 2 days a week, he does Flyball training which is 2 hours of intense running. This all adds up to an average of 2 hours of hard exercise a day, with 2 hours of light exercise and some in between. He's very muscly and healthy! =)

I totally agree... especially with working breeds! People just do not realize that Border Collies, Aussies, German Shepherds, Labs, Goldens, Huskies, etc, etc, were bred to WORK through out the day - hard. They were not bred to lay around the house or in the yard all day with a brief little play session when you get home from work! Not to mention, many of the "owners" who just don't feel their dogs need daily exercise also tend to overfeed and feed poor kibbles - which equals an obese, unhappy, behavioral, territorial, arthritic, cancerous, sad, dog! Not just working breeds, every dog needs daily mental/physical stimulation. I hate seeing English Bulldogs, even, who are morbidly obese. It's completely unhealthy and abusive.