Benefits of Living in an Apartment with Your Dog

Benefits of Living in an Apartment with Your Dog

Relationship

Since you don’t have a backyard for the dog to spend all its time, you spend more time with your dog. Learn to live closely with each other.

Your relationship with your dog will grow tremendously. You live 24 hours a day together in the same space.

Your dog will be much more adjusted if you want to take your dog on vacation with you instead of leaving him/her in a kennel or with a friend. Living in an apartment adjusts your dog to staying in motels/hotels and being in a crate in the car for long car rides. Your dog will be more used to being calm and better behaved around a variety of people and other pets so you can walk your dog in new cities and on trails. Your dog can more easily adapt to going to new dog parks and strange situations. Your dog will already be familiar with having to relieve themselves in a variety of environments which helps a lot while traveling. And, of course, your dog is much happier to be with you than in a kennel. 

Health 

You will get more exercise for yourself because the dog will require exercise.

Your dogs overall stress level will be reduced when encountering anything new or a change in its routine because the dog will already be fully adjusted to coming across on a daily bases all the different and challenging  he/she encounters in their daily life at home.

Training/socialization

If you take your dog to dog parks for exercise, you will meet other dog people. 

Your dog will become more socialized automatically as they meet more people on their walks. They will become more adapted to noises, machines and other animals. Compare this to a dog that lives in a house with a yard. The dog will rarely, if at all, be taken for walks, loosing out on the socialization and training opportunities. 

You set an example for others to see what a well-behaved and well-trained dog can truly be like. I meet people all the time who were once extremely afraid of dogs eventually look forward to seeing my dogs, and my dogs loved to see them everyday, also, which made these people very happy.