Just wondered how everyone is getting on with the dark evenings.  I'm walking round the streets, but really want to let my two cavi's have a good run.  Just wondered how everyone else is coping.

ive got flashing collars so i can spot them,also good for road walking so the cars are aware!

Ive got flashing collars too, I dont walk on farm tracks in the dark just over the local play area which is right next to a grave yard, Fagan chases the rabbits through the grave yard and all you can see is these red lights flashing like creepy eyes

ok so I am slightly over imaginative :D :rolleyes:

spookyyyy!!!!!!!

Take them for a good run before it gets dark then :)

not always possible for those who work :( I took a two hour lunch break today so they could have a good run in the light, in the mornings it is only just light enough for a run and in the evenings I only have half an hour of light and that is getting shorter and shorter :(

Guest has cavi's(sic) (which I take to be Cavalier King Charles Spaniels rather than guinea pigs :)) so I would have thought a good run at lunch time would be sufficient in addition to the run of the garden in evenings, if they are at work all day without a lunch break at home then I would say the dark evenings are another reason not to have a dog when you work full time.

Bad day Isobel or just got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning ?

Isabel, do us a favour and if you have nothing nice to say keep it buttoned.

I work full time but I am fortunate enough to work from home and I am only away occasionally. However, there are far too many dogs that are in kennels that would be far better off in a good home with a family - even if that family is at work. can we get a little perspective around here please - its hardly the crime of the century.

Actually my first comment was meant to be flippant hence the smiley so I'm not sure who's woken up without their humour button switched on :rolleyes:   No its not the crime of the century and I'm willing to bet most of the regular posters on here who work put a great deal of priority on their dogs needs but many, many more people out there don't.  If you work full time and don't come home lunch time you are clearly not going to see your dog during daylight hours at all during the winter and it is not good leaving it until the clocks change to wonder what you are going to do about exercise.

Who said anything about lunch?? You just made an assumption about the poster - how do you know they dopn't go home at lunch but still want to walk their dogs at night?

I didn't make any assumption thats why I said I thought a good run at lunch time would be sufficient and not worry about letting them run in the evening.
PS Have you made the assumtion that blondebird88 did that, they are out at work, maybe they just meant they felt the dogs needed a further run in the evening :)

I can't see to walk our two at night now as there are no lights where we live so I bought myself a head lamp :p

Do you sing "Hi ho, hi ho..." while you walk?!

I have got collies so I'm alright! The white tips of their tails are just as good as flashing collars! Last winter we went to Wales on holiday and stayed at a farm. One evening I was walking my boys one at a time, and couldn't see a a thing. I did have a torch but it so incredibly dark. I heard this funny noise and scanning round with the torch, saw my dog lying in the middle of a cattle grid looking most perplexed! I helped him get out, and although it could have been nasty, he wasn't hurt. Every time I picture him there it makes me laugh! What a funny sight. Ah well, you had to be there...........

:D We live on farmland so it's pitch black now in the evening. I have one Mal in each hand, so a torch wasn't a viable option :p

My OH has a head lamp to walk his Akita. He came home one night with a head lamp shaped impression embedded in his forehead - he'd fallen over :D :D :D . I don't bother, just tell him I've got good night vision (which is why I spend the winter limping around, covered in scratches and bruises) :D

A headlamp is top of my christmas list (along with some moon boots )

My OH is home most days and he is quite happy to play ball with the dog in the garden or walk him to the shops he just doesnt do big treks accross muddy fields, and as Fagan is mine (plus im looking after my friends two at the moment) I have to take responsibility for them so if I want them walked in daylight I have to make time for that.  If Fagan was on his own all day then I would come home lunchtime anyway, as it is at the moment we are rarely both out all day so if we are he goes to doggy day care :p

Another slant to this, my mum is usually home from work by 3pm but she has a really physical job (and she is getting old ;) ) and she is just too shattered to take her dog out straight away and so by the time she has got dinner for everyone it is dark :(