Just wondering how long before/after feeding is a good time to take your dog for a walk/exercise?  thanks in advance

half an hour as a minimum, preferably an hour..especially afterwards would be my suggestion.

I exercise, cool down for at least 30mins then feed.

Hour either side of exercise.

I would never exercise my dogs less than a couple of hours after feeding them. My routine is to exercise them then feed them. I don't feed them until they are cooled down and calm - so generally at least 30 mins after exercise, but longer if they've been very energetic or it's hot.

It was always drummed into me as a child by my Mum when on our ponies..."always WALK the last mile home".

If dogs are clipped up and walk part of the way home they automatically cool down and their heart rate returns to normal.

Just wondering how long before/after feeding is a good time to take your dog for a walk/exercise?  thanks in advance

As mine is a breed prone to GDV (Bloat- torsion) the yardstick is not to exercise for 2 hours after feeding, and not feed for one hour after exercise (or coming home from a trip).   To give the system a chance to calm down.

And further, rather than feed one big meal a day, feed two smaller meals, splitting the daily amount in two.   We have always stuck to this (breakfast around 7 am and the second meal before 5 pm) but even then, have had 4 Bloat cases, with a full torsion.  Two survived and two didn't despite them all being to the vet immediately.   There is some evidence to suggest a familal connection - although my first two were not directly related.   The third and fourth were distantly related to the second, and those two were grandfather and grandson.   Three were elderly male hounds, one, which blew all my theories out the window, was 8, fit, healthy, still on full exercise - and further he blew first thing, before any food or exercise.   In fact we found him in his crate at around 7am, surrounded by white froth.   He was straight to the vet and back home that evening, minus spleen which had ruptured.  That was his only episode.

I agree with mamabas. The only thing I do differently is the 2nd feed. I do this later as my lot get  marrow bones, bull pizzles or pig/cow ears at lunch time for teeth cleaning. Also with the hot weather, I don't go out in the evenings until after 7pm ish - before our dinner time.

Feeding an hour after walks also 99% guarantees they will finish their meals as they will have eliminated and exercised....so no more leaving bowls down, picking up after 15mins and trying again.

I think how careful you are depends on how prone your breed is to bloat. With my borzois I never walked within 2 hours of a meal, preferably 3 hours. The silkens I walk an hour after feeding and will feed them as soon as they have cooled down and their breathing is normal after a walk.

Also it's important to consider the type of food you're feeding, there is some evidence to suggest that food that swells a lot in water or releases gases contributes to the risk of bloat. I feed applaws which doesn't increase in size with water and raw food. In the days when I fed a food that did swell I soaked it well beforehand.

Also it's important to consider the type of food you're feeding, there is some evidence to suggest that food that swells a lot in water or releases gases contributes to the risk of bloat.

This is absolutely correct too - and for the same reason I try to use a food that doesn't do this blowing up - and we always suggest not to allow our hounds to gulp down loads of water immediately after feeding.   You can see how much a food expands by dropping it into water yourself.   Some of it is quite horrifing, usually the kind that's mainly cereal!!

Some years ago Liverpool Uni (as I recall, without digging out the paperwork) did some considerable research on GDV which was interesting and also the Bloodhound people suggest this can be familial - some hounds having a small sphincter muscle, in and out, that goes into spasm.  There certainly are some lines of Bassets who seem to be affected more than others.

I feed an hour before going out and never had any problems and mine race around like idiots.

I always feed off the floor with a stand also put water on a stand.

Having lost a dog to bloat I am very careful to not allow them to gulp down water although I think it was multifactorial I believ the gulping of water certainly pushed things the wrong way.
I raw feed now, Although I didn't when I lost my joise, and  that isnt the reason why I raw feed there is some research to say raw fed dogs are less likely to bloat so it reassures me a bit.

I feed an hour before going out and never had any problems and mine race around like idiots.

If you have Bassets, you are tempting fate - 4 BLOAT CASES.

I always feed off the floor with a stand also put water on a stand.

The jury is out re feeding from raised bowls or not.    I have a stand which I bought for my Whippet ..... it only has the water bowl in it - My Basset drinks from it, and my Whippet from his bigger water bowl which is ON THE GROUND!!   Hum.

I have a breed prone to bloat and feed at least 2 hrs before or 1 hr after exercise.
My routine is up at 7.30am out for 1 hr at 8am, feed at 10am. then walk (Slight adjustment at the moment with the heat) again at 3 -4 pm and feed at 7pm. We are walking much later in the evening at the moment so I am feeding at 6pm and walking at about 8 - 9 pm. It is far to hot to take my double coated black breed out until the temp has dropped considerably. 8am I find in OK and we do stick to walking the hedgerows in the early morning shade. They both dive into the river to cool their tummies down !!
I find mine don't gulp water down. I am walking at the moment alongside a small river (Very small in this heat) and they pop in and out during walks for a slurp. Then I give a bowl on return to the car but not too much and once we get home they are not so thirsty they need to gulp loads down.
I feed on a stand but the stands are home made boxes and just 8 inches high. I prefer to start pups of on a box to take the pressure of elbows sticking out when they eat off the floor. Once you start with a stand the advice is to stick with it for life.
Aileen

I think your point about water is rather important Aileen.

My small breed "don't get bloat" yet one of mine did. She stole birdseed from under the feeder and then proceeded to drink loads of water, most unlike her.
I never allow her to gulp down lots of water after food now and everything she has is measured then soaked.

Again with horses we tried to get them to drink before feeding and removed water bucket for at least an hour after if they were on concentrate.

I feed on a stand but the stands are home made boxes and just 8 inches high. I prefer to start pups of on a box to take the pressure of elbows sticking out when they eat off the floor.

My aim, with puppy Whippet was the same and to avoid the extra stress on her knuckle joints (front legs) when bending down to a bowl.   As it is, the stand didn't suit Madam, which is why I just use it for water - and find as said, Frankie Basset drinks from the high stand (which is really at head level) while she drinks from his bigger water bowl on the floor!!  Hey ho, the best laid plans.   I do put her food bowl on her thick padded bed, which gets it up off ground level however, and Frankie eats his food in the kitchen from his bowl on the floor.