6 Ways to Exercise Your Dog Indoors this Winter

The fall has changed the scenic beauty of the environment. Yellow, red, golden and orange colored leaves are peeping out of everywhere. With the fall foliage, the temperature has begun to fall, making the atmosphere crisp and cold. Within a few weeks, the environment will be really cold and you may not be able to take your canines for a walk.

As we all know, dogs need to exercise daily to maintain their health as well as to shed their excitement. With snow, undoubtedly your day may become lovely, but your pooch may miss on his routine of playing outdoors and a long sprint. Thus, to maintain his health and to keep his energy level in check, you may need to plan an active indoor workout session with your canine.
Let’s go through some tips on how you can have a playful, yet pound-shedding session with your dogs!

• Dogs drool over treats. You can take an advantage of this and plan an exercise session. Hide several treats at different places and let your pooch sniff around to find his reward.
• Who says treadmills are made just for humans? You can utilize it for your canines too after having trained him. If you follow this tip, you may need to take care of two things, one is that you may need to start off slowly and let the pooch get comfortable. The second is, don’t leash your pet while he is running.
• It may become impossible to play fetch outdoors in cold days. Switch to indoor fetch game using a chuck-it-indoor roller. Playing it on stairs may give your pooch a little extra work out.
• Apart from physical exercise and nutritional dog health products, canines need mental stimulation equally, especially if you own a husky, or collie. To stir them mentally, make their meal time puzzling through interactive puzzle toys.
• All days are not the same. If you find that the weather has had mercy on you, don’t miss that chance to take you dog for a walk with you. Make sure he walks through aisle with footwear on.
• If you have sufficient space in your home, try to have a play date for your pooch. Make sure he likes the other dog/dogs and that they have had a good history of being together.

So are you ready to welcome the wintery days?  Use these tips to have an interactive and interesting session with your furry friend. Though your pooch may gain some weight in winter, these tips may definitely help you to lessen that gain.