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[quote=Anonymous]I love dogs, this is not an anti-dog post.

I live in DC in a condo with a small balcony. I'm in the H Street Corridor, which is pretty dense. There are parks, including some designated dog parks, but the nearest one is about 5 blocks away. So owning a dog in my building means taking your dog on walks 2-3x a day, often to places that are 30 minute round trip (or hiring someone to do so).

Most of the people in my building are professionals in their 20s and 30s and, like me, work 50+ hour weeks and travel fairly often (both for work and pleasure).

About half of the people in the building have dogs.

How? Why? It seems like the most impractical thing. Having to structure your day around walking your dog, even with WFH, just seems incredibly burdensome -- my job is demanding and all I can imagine is my dog needing to pee while I'm on a conference call that is running long. Plus paying for dog walkers and sitters every time I'm in the office or traveling. Having to structure evening plans around walking my dog. And never being able to just open the door and let him into the yard -- always having to leash him and walk him a half mile just to let him run around.

It's baffling to me. Like I said, I love dogs and would love to get one, but my life just seems not at all conducive to it. A cat seems feasible, though I understand many people don't like cats. But still, if you want companionship in an apartment and you work/travel a lot, a cat seems like an obvious choice. And yet I only know one cat owner in my building and like 30 dog owners.

Why is this so popular?[/quote]

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