Should I encourage my senior dog to exercise?

I am a big proponent of exercise, so yes, I would encourage you to exercise them. How many of us love it when our dogs, we have to spell W-A-L-K, but then they turn their head real quick, and all of a sudden, you think, "Can my dog spell or read?" I don't know, but they love that walk that they get. And so I always tell people, you’ve got to let a dog be a dog. That's probably the highlight of their day other than seeing you. Even if you're gone for five minutes and you come back, they go crazy seeing you again. So I would say continue to exercise. It's good for cognitive abilities and is good for physical activity.

Yes. It is good to continue exercising regularly with your dog. Hopefully, your dog would have been conditioned to do that all alone. So that would be good to continue with a normal range of motion, low impact exercises like walking or swimming. We don't want to do a lot of high-impact jumping, twisting, or turning, because that can be a little harder on the joints. So you want to be a bit careful with that. Let them be the judge of that. You don't want to push them beyond their limits, but encouraging your dog to exercise is very good for them.