Looking after a dog properly involves judging how much exercise it needs.
This varies from breed to breed, and indeed from dog to dog. The assumption that small dogs need fewer walks than big ones is not always correct. Dogs should be given the opportunity of doing their business at least four times a day. A quick circuit round the block is not enough for this. Your four-legged friend should be given the chance of running around, playing, sniffing and making contact with other dogs. Whenever at all possible, you should allow your dog the freedom of being off the leash. Of course you are obliged, as a dog-owner, to consider a number of questions carefully – for example:

• Are dogs allowed to be off the leash in this location?
• Does your dog go bananas over strangers?
• Does your dog go after prey?

If for whatever reason it is inadvisable to let your dog off the leash, the flexi leash offers an appropriate solution. This gives the dog a great deal more freedom of movement than it has with a conventional leash.