Should it be made a criminal offence not to take your dog for a walk?

Yes it should !!!.....Dogs need stimulation and saying you don't have the time to walk your dog is not an excuse.....if you don't have the time then you shouldn't have had the dog in the first place.

No, because if you don't walk your dog, he will poop on the floor, and you inflict that punishment on yourself.

Oh certainly. They're letting thieves and child molesters out of prison as well as allowing "protesters" to loot and burn. But not walking a dog should be a criminal OFFENSE.

F-ing moron.

why? me hunting dogs pull me on a bicycle. you want to put them in prison because they dont walk? I already know you hate them because they love me not you.

Considering theres no way to enforce such a law to begin with it's honestly useless.

lol, no.  I do not walk my dogs.  I have no reason to walk them.  I have property & they get plenty of exercise & they have their poop areas.  1/2 acre.  I think that if there is no backyard for the dogs, there shouldn't be any dogs in apartments.  I think that should be banned, dogs don't belong in apartments with no backyards.

No, defineatly not, apart from the impossibility of policing a law like that, giving someone a criminal record can completely wreck their whole life, where they can't find a home to live in or a job to earn money....criminalising people because they are ignorant is wrong, educating people is the way forward.

In many countries it is already written in law to chip your dog, law to get medical treatment, law to register your dog annually, it is not law to feed your dog correctly and the only basics are shelter, food and water and that is viewed differently by different owners, some countries it is very easy to 'adopt' a dog with little to no checks on who is adopting and if they are balanced individuals who know how to care and train a dog, in other countries the adoption process is very stringent with home checks and follow ups.......

Training , socialisation and neutering are VERY important and that includes daily lead walking, local rescues near me are strict on adoption, ALL animals are neutered before they are adopted out, all chipped, all registered and also offer  basic free training classes to all adopters, with a voucher for a local to them obeience class, the adopter also has to register with their local vet and provide proof they have done that.

Yes, I read about this in the Newspaper and I personally think it`s a good thing. It may also stop people buying pups and then discarding them when they become adult dogs and too much bother. 

Info: Dog owners in Germany will be ordered to walk their pets twice a day, according to new law called the Hundeverordnung, or Dogs Act. ... The new rules also mean dogs can't be left alone at home all day. Keeping dogs on a lead or chain for long periods also won't be allowed.

The UK does have pet welfare rules under the 2006 animal welfare Legislation, but IMO it does not go  far enough.

Yes’m, as dogs just need exercise.

I was half-listening to a report on the news this morning saying it's just that in Germany.  I'd not want this to become a 'criminal offence' in the UK (having a criminal record is very serious) but for sure, people who take on owning a dog, should expect to have to walk it at least once a day.   I think Germany requires two walks a day but whether that means just access to the outside rather than an actual walk, I don't know.   And it would surely depend on the ability of the individual dog.