Are your dogs slowing down with age alot

My dog is nearly nine but looks very much younger which I think is because he lives in doors and eats a sound diet .He can still run hard "when he wants to " but he isnt running with the mad drive he once had .I watch some of these European dogs in trials run and man do they move .
Hows your dogs going

Often depends on the breed as well it seems to me.
We have a Japanese Akita who is now 9yrs. 12months ago she was happily keeping up with our 4yr old chessie, but in the last 6months has really slowed down. She used to need 1hr walk/run now a 20-30min walk round the block is fine. Makes a bastard of a job when I take both out though, with one tiring so quickly now. Having to do a group walk and then a "top up" for the chessie later.

Chessie?

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Chessie?

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Really intelligent dog that plays chess at international level. Beat Bobby Fischer in a friendly once but got knocked out by Boris Spassky in a quarter final at the only world championship it attended.

your an old Dog Rushy haha

True that. Not as good as I once was but as good once as I ever was.

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Chessie?

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Chesapeake Bay Retriever - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Barefoot, you need to be more honest about that chesapeake cuz, hes half fuckin horse. His heads the size of my cocker

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Really intelligent dog that plays chess at international level. Beat Bobby Fischer in a friendly once but got knocked out by Boris Spassky in a quarter final at the only world championship it attended.

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Not true, He threw the game for the sake of soviet/US relations and was promptly banned

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Originally Posted by upnorth uplander

Barefoot, you need to be more honest about that chesapeake cuz, hes half fuckin horse. His heads the size of my cocker

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You know the country I hunt now, anything smaller requires a search & rescue party to find them at the end of the day :D
imagine your cocker trying to carry a pheasant back through it.
Cruze can nearly carry a goat for me.

Damn that makes the dog smarter than the prime minister.

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You know the country I hunt now, anything smaller requires a search & rescue party to find them at the end of the day :D
imagine your cocker trying to carry a pheasant back through it.
Cruze can nearly carry a goat for me.

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next time im following your dog, hes like a bulldozer making a fire break

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Barefoot, you need to be more honest about that chesapeake cuz, hes half fuckin horse. His heads the size of my cocker

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Me and the Witch been hearin' you been disrespectin' my pedigree.
I'll make this clear - I ain't no horse - I ATE THE HORSE

Shit the 70s porn industry called, they want their lounge back! :D

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Shit the 70s porn industry called, they want their lounge back! :D

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Thats not bad dougie - for someone born in 1980 :)