Jogging with your dog is great exercise for both of you. Many mixed or hybrids breeds and high energy types would be excellent choices as a jogging partner. It's probably best not to have a toy or northern working breed as a jogging companion. The very small and very large breeds really aren't built for long runs. An ideal running partner will be medium sized around 50 to 70 pounds.
The following breeds are considered good choices for a jogging partner:
- Airedale Terrier
- Alaskan Malamute
- American Foxhound
- American Pit Bull Terrier
- Australian Cattle Dog
- Australian Shepherd
- Austrian Shorthaired Pinscher
- Basenji
- Bearded Collie
- Black and Tan Coonhound
- Border Collie
- Borzoi
- Bouvier des Flanders
- Boxer
- Braque Du Bourbonnais
- Briard
- Bull Terrier
- Chesapeake Bay Retriever
- Collie
- Czechoslovakian Wolfdog
- Dalmatian
- Danish-Swedish Farmdog
- Doberman Pinscher
- English Foxhound
- English Setter
- English Springer Spaniel
- Flat-Coated Retriever
- French Spaniel
- French Brittany Spaniel
- German Shepherd Dog
- German Spitz
- German Shorthaired Pointer
- German Wirehaired Pointer
- Giant Schnauzer
- Golden Retriever
- Gordon Setter
- Greyhound
- Irish Setter
- Irish Staffordshire Bull Terrier
- Labrador Retriever
- Lakeland Terrier
- Maremma Sheepdog
- Newfoundland
- Norwegian Elkhound
- Old English Sheepdog
- Pointer
- Portuguese Water Dog
- Redbone Coonhound
- Rhodesian Ridgeback
- Rottweiler
- Samoyed
- Scottish Deerhound
- Siberian Husky
- Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier
- Standard Schnauzer
- Weimaraner
- Welsh Springer Spaniel
- Welsh Terrier
- Wirehaired Pointing Griffon
- Wirehaired Vizsla