ABSTRACT
Most of the debate surrounding dog walking and wellbeing is framed almost wholly in terms of what dogs can do for humans. This chapter instead explores how dogs’ needs and desires come to be ‘known’ and experienced by their guardians, how this matters for dog walking practices, and how it co-produces human wellbeing. The findings prompt questions of to which kinds of dog walking experiences a dog might be entitled (e.g. the nature and degree of interaction with particular humans, dogs, technologies and ecologies) and trouble any easy freedom-work dichotomies as a basis for gaining wellbeing from leisure.
