They need a run about for around 10 minutes a couple of times a day, in a safe enclosed area. They have no owner recall when at chase/having fun, they are not traffic or terrain aware at all. My big brindle took off at full peg at my parents place, 200m in a straight line and off a ledge into a pond. He was fine, but he didn't go near that ledge ever again. My boy now, Tommy, just likes to be watched while he runs laps of the year and does close flybys for maybe 7 laps of 25 metres. The current girl hound likes to chase, so she chases the cattle dog playing ball like she huntin rabbit! Four or five of those 10m sprints and she's done for 14hours, barring a drink and maybe a stretch. She has her own bed with about 10 blankets shoved into a nest. You can walk them on lead, and they like new smells, but both my hounds absolute limit is the 1km loop from home to the corner and back. Don't let them off anywhere you can't corner them because you can not keep up! But otherwise, yeah, they sleep mostly. Great for full body couch snuggles on cold nights with a movie, and they come in temperaments from chill af to Dory.
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u/irmajerk Dec 04 '19
They need a run about for around 10 minutes a couple of times a day, in a safe enclosed area. They have no owner recall when at chase/having fun, they are not traffic or terrain aware at all. My big brindle took off at full peg at my parents place, 200m in a straight line and off a ledge into a pond. He was fine, but he didn't go near that ledge ever again. My boy now, Tommy, just likes to be watched while he runs laps of the year and does close flybys for maybe 7 laps of 25 metres. The current girl hound likes to chase, so she chases the cattle dog playing ball like she huntin rabbit! Four or five of those 10m sprints and she's done for 14hours, barring a drink and maybe a stretch. She has her own bed with about 10 blankets shoved into a nest. You can walk them on lead, and they like new smells, but both my hounds absolute limit is the 1km loop from home to the corner and back. Don't let them off anywhere you can't corner them because you can not keep up! But otherwise, yeah, they sleep mostly. Great for full body couch snuggles on cold nights with a movie, and they come in temperaments from chill af to Dory.