How much exercise for a puppy?

[.sarah]

For a puppy, yes, I'd say that's a long walk. What about swimming? Parks? Maybe you could get involved in an activity with her, like obedience or obedience classes, that will tire her without much exercise?

Buck plays with the other dogs a lot in the backyard, then I'll run around with him (and the other dogs) some in the house, and he swims almost every day, and we practice for our shows pretty often as well. It doesn't tire him out completely, he could go much longer, but he's also well behaved in the house so he doesn't go crazy with bottled up energy. I think the only time I saw him totally and completely pooped was at the end of our trip from camping and visiting Kay. That is the first time I've ever seen him fall asleep standing. Like ... he wanted to keep going, but he just couldn't. Haha

[wolf_Q]

She's in puppy classes but its only once a week. I don't have a pool for her to swim in, its too cold in any lakes right now...plus I don't think she'd swim anyway, it took Nebo until last year to decide he was brave enough lol. She'd have to be on a leash in the park so wouldn't that be a walk anyway?

She's not crazy or anything, actually she's fairly calm for a husky pup. She just looooooooooves to go on the walks, if she sees the leash she starts howling. I'm going on the walks mostly for myself, making the dogs happy is just my motivation, heh, I guess I'll have to just bring Nebo (hopefully the neighbors won't call AC from hearing her husky screams at being left home J/K)

[.sarah]

Honestly, if you feel it's fine, take her. Maybe just start her on a glucosamine/chondroitin supplements to support her joints. When I got Nova my vet told me that it's important not to stress their joints when they are young (I had asked about doing agility), and I saw the same things when I researched it. Low impact exercise and letting the dog deciding when they've had enough were what was reccomended most often by the people I talked to and articles I'd read.

It's my opinion that joint problems in young dogs is mostly genetic related, but if the dog's joints are already bad, forced exercise will make it worse. It might be a good idea to x-ray her hips when you spay her. If I hadn't done that I wouldn't know that Nova was dysplastic, because she doesn't show any signs right now.