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I love teaching my clients to exercise their pooches on the treadmill. Surprise and doubt are the initial reactions but I've yet to meet a dog I could not convince to participate and, generally, come to love the treadmill. The proof that dogs instinctually need to exercise is when these dogs often come to 'request' - via whining/barking/pacing - a run on the treadmill. Below are Alexi and Sasha taking their turns on the treadmill. With our winters, I don't know how people properly provide exercise and instinctual migration required by dogs. I told one client who owns a husky, a dog more than adequately equipped to run in sub-zero temperatures, "He may very well be equipped for these winters but humans are not. How long will you last in -30 weather? You'll likely catch your death if you spend any time at all out there." He runs his husky daily on the treadmill and the dog is happy a can be.