Treadmills and Dogs

So my wife wants me to start letting her dogs use my treadmill.

Anyone else do this? Any issues? Seems pretty safe but since I spend 7k on the dang thing I’d like to make sure.

Thx.
John

Why can’t she walk them outside?

How well do you know your dogs? After about 15 minutes of running my dog has to take an emergency deuce. You probably don’t want that sticking to the tread and wrapping around the rollers a few times.

They walk about 3 miles outside everyday. However one of our dogs is very high energy and requires more exercise.

Definitely don’t want that. LOL. However he would be under supervision so that seems unlikely. The funny part is my dogs usually walk and ‘dump’ at the same time so they could possibly pull it off if the treadmill was going slow. Too funny. Man will I blow up if that happens, but I see the humor.

Ever watch Cesar Milan, the dog whisperer? He often has his clients use a treadmill to help their dog walk off the excess energy. It takes them a little while to figure it out, but the love it in the end. No breakage issues but the deuce is always possible.

We’ve seen that. That’s where she got the idea. I just want to know if others have done it and if any damage happened to the treadmill. I LOVE my treadmill. It’s stress relief 101 for me.