Dogs and Flats - Bad idea ?

Sagz_2

wendy007 wrote: »

Don't put your dog in a crate! That's really bad advice, I work with a dog behavioural specialist and dog will just become agitated and other problems will develop in most cases.

You may be a little late with the advice there Wendy.....the post was a year old!!

viktory

wendy007 wrote: »

Don't put your dog in a crate! That's really bad advice, I work with a dog behavioural specialist and dog will just become agitated and other problems will develop in most cases.

Eh? My dg is crated when she is left alone and she is fine.

NB I love it when old threads are resurrected!

rita-rabbit

this thread is 2 years old!

gettingready

May be 2 years old but hey - so what?

I live in a flat, 2 bed to be precise, 2 florr to be exact and with no garden.

Got a GS girl and a cat.....both pretty happy.

Ah, I also work - full time.

And my dog probably gets more exercise and adventures than SOME dog that live in houses with gardens.

My dog goes on a bus, on a tube, to the shops - that in addition to a good hour walk/run before I go to work, 1 hour at lunchtime with her dogwalker while I am at work, 1-1.5 off lead when I come back from work and late night "wee" trip.

You will often spot my dog in a horizontal position on a bed (my bed so we clear) or settee and if you ask her if she feels neglected because she lives in a flat? I do not think so

Have masiveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee open space at the front of my block, massive woods with lakes at the back.

As to a crate - what a nonsense about NOT using one.

Zara used to LOVE her crate, anythign that ever went missing - we would always find in her "cave". She has a blanket there, one side was against the wall, top and 2 sides were covered with a blanket (dark and cosy) and she would spend hours in there - her own choice as the crate was not locked.

Properly used, a dog crate is/can be a great training aid.

gettingready

Oh... the therad is nearly 3 years old

Still so what?

Points still valid... LOL

katie1234

hi everyone,
i was just wondering if anyone has experience of keeping a dog in a first floor apartment. it has its own front door (not communal hallways) and there is loads of garden area around the building. the apartment is easily big enough for a small dog and the dog would obviously be walked often but im just not sure how easy it would be with toileting etc. im completely dog crazy and have always had yorkies so was just going to wait until we could move into a house but because of the housing markets etc thats now going to be a long time. i just cant wait any longer. any comments would be appreciated. thanks!

chrisaj

I used to have a labradustbin when I lived in a flat. That also had it's own door.(the flat not the dog :rotfl: )You should be ok, I just kept an eye on what she was doing, and if it looked like she needed to go to the toilet, I just popped her lead on and took her downstairs, no problem. Just go for it

Raggs_2

We've got quite a large dog in a flat, he was supposed to be an older, smaller, short haired female...

Thankfully he has the overall important aspect for a dog in a smaller space, he's very relaxed and chilled out inside. I'd say that's the main thing you need. A lot of working dogs are kept in kennels, a lot of dogs are left in crates when the owner is away, or closed into one room. So basically the space isn't a huge issue in my mind. I would love to have a garden for him to be able to spend all day in, but until we do, we're settled with one dog and know, no matter how cute the ones that we pick up off the street are, we have to rehome them, and can't have more.

So short story, get a breed/cross that has a good lazy streak when there's not much to do.

foxy-roxy

Of course you can, my friend has 2 dogs in her 1st floor flat and lets them out to do there business at the same times every day so they become regular.
Go for it.

jackieglasgow

! grew up in a flat with a whippet / lurcher cross - not the laziest of dogs, and she was fine. That was in the days when you could let your dog out on it's own, she was like a cat in that respect, and would often go out for hours, and go visit my gran at her home!