I couldn't exactly find anything and wasn't sure where to post this.

I'm curious on how much exercise (time vs miles) do you let go by without giving your dog a water break. I tend to walk Mishka about 1-3 miles a day broken up into a few walks (sometimes one long walk) and regardless if we just have a leisure walk or I get him to jog in spurts*, when we get home he is always panting up a storm. It's not even hot outside right now and we just went on a 30 minute walk around the neighborhood and he's panting so heavily.

Should I start bringing water with me on our short walks, is this normal? I'm just curious because he really doesn't seem like he's distressed or anything when we're walking or even pants heavily on the walks.

It's just sort of confusing for me.



* Not a ton since he's still growing, just teaching him on-by and to pass up distractions without yanking me all over the place, since I want to start training him to bike soon.