Adopting a dog but I'm renting an apartment?

 • "Adopting a dog but I'm renting an apartment"

[Jordyn]: You've been in Y!A for a year but STILL don't know that the FIRST field is required to END with your main question. Your first field (above) ASKS nothing - it just supplied 2 bits of information. Y!A is programmed so that if anything except a ❓ ends the first field, Y!A slaps a ❓ there.

I also see that you have chosen a Best/Favourite Answer to only ONE of your 11 questions.

Provided SOMEONE answers your question (not just makes fun of you) you should REWARD the most helpful answerer inside a week - a fortnight at the latest. You are VERY unlikely to get any new answers after that, so ignoring your DUTY results in disgruntled answerers who decide to never waste time on you again. It also results in you doing yourself out of being "refunded" 3 of the 5 points it "costs" to ask a question here.

You also grizzle about being given ADVICE! Tough, kiddo - your first line and the contents of the remaining 3 fields SHOW that you NEED LOTS of advice. So I'll place my information-request questions each time you stimulate one.

💥Q1: Does your apartment have a back door opening straight into a securely fenced back yard?

💥Q2: What BREED or breed-mix are you interested in, and which GENDER and AGE? What do you want THAT kind of dog to DO for you?

(All dogs need to have a function - they are NOT ornaments.)

💥Q3: WHY do you prefer to ADOPT a no-known-pedigree pooch from an organisation such as the SPCA, rather than buy a kennel-club-registered (if you are a Yank or a Reb, only the AKC counts) pooch by parents with a list of qualifications and genetic PASS certificates, plus with a worthwhile printed-&-signed Guarantee stating the compensation you will receive if your pet is proven to have a genetic disorder before it reaches a specified age?

(Usually until the last 1 or 2 years of that breed's life expectancy.)

💥Q4: Do you have the landlord's written permission to keep THAT kind of pooch on HIS property? How about INSIDE the apartment?

💥Q5: Are you able to stay home 24/7 WATCHING Pooch 100% the whole time it is awake throughout the 3-to-8 weeks a pooch from a dog-rescue organisation (only dog-rescue organisations such as an SPCA have dogs for ADOPTION) is likely to take to understand and LIKE you, so that YOU learn its timings (How long after waking?  - after eating or drinking?  - after exercise or playing?) and signal for "Wanna go TOILET!" so that you can instantly cheerfully pick it up and take it outside to the designated toileting area.

(While pup is awake but NOT yet reliably house-trained you can NOT cook meals, do much in the way of housework, use the phone, watch tv.)

💥Q6: Which dog-training club or group will you join to get COACHED for about a year, starting when Pup is 18-22 weeks old? Do you have TRANSPORT to get you plus a dog to & from that training site?

• "Hello! I'm currently looking to adopt a dog, but I'm having trouble finding places/people that are willing to adopt out to people living in apartments (understandably.) My husband and I are both young (in our 20s), first-time dog owners (although I've lived with, and helped raised dogs for the majority of my childhood and teen years.) We live in a one-bedroom apartment, not really big but not small either, just an average apartment, with a bit of a bigger balcony. We also live right across from a dog-park (walking distance,) and a few hiking trails. The apartment we live in allows dogs, no weight restrictions but there are a few breed restrictions that we've already looked into, and we've already paid our pet deposit as well. We're particularly looking for a puppy OR younger dog so that we can spend 8-10+ (however old they live up to) years with him/her. Do you know of any shelters that are okay with adopting out to people who live in apartments? Thanks so much!"

We there hit one of the most CONFUSING words in the Dogs section - "shelters". I prefer the clarity of:

♦a: a city pound;   or:

♦b: a registered dog-rescue charity such as an SPCA.

💥Q7: Which of that pair do YOU mean?

Meantime, my answer must be "No", although I imagine that some City Pounds might.

"The apartment we live in allows dogs" is untrue fantasy. Apartments are inanimate & mindless. See my Q4, and use REAL English, not fantasies.

I know of almost NO apartments that have both a BALCONY (which means that it is up in the air) and a BACK DOOR that opens straight into a securely fenced backyard. Refer back to my Q4.

Nor have you yet mentioned which BREED or breed-mix, as per my Q2.

💥Q8: Once the CoViD lockdowns end (possibly by Xmas 2021, but late 2022 is more likely - the USA seems to have so many ignorant Republicans unwilling to be vaccinated that the USA might well be the very last nation to have a CoViD death) and you presumably return to work: On your busiest day, how long will your pet be "home alone"? WHERE will he/she/itbe during thosehours?

💥Q9:  At what age do you intend to get it neutered, if it isn't already neutered?

(As genuine dog-rescue charity organisations such as the ASPCA know what LIARS most dog-seekers are, they will NOT release a pooch to you until they have had it neutered - commonly as young as 8 weeks old, to make room for someone else's litter. Which greatly increases the likelihood of the pooch developing such as hip dysplasia during the first 2-to-4 years. NO pooch should be neutered before it has reached full height and the hormones from its gonads have told the various bones in the legs to "STOP ADDING LENGTH❗️".)

• "Update 1: I forgot to provide my location, I'm currently in the Tacoma/Lacey area of Washington."

So you're a Yank and SHOULD know whether that is Washington DC (a CITY) or Washington (a STATE) - and should know to automatically tell us WHICH it is. You might be surprised at just how many people in Y!A don't live in ANY part of the USA, let alone be able to work out which Washington has a "Tacoma/Lacey area". But at least you aren't in one of the 26 Salems in 26 different states - nor in one of the USA's 41 Springfields.

• "I understand raising dogs is not the same as owning, but I'm a grown adult and I know and UNDERSTAND what I am getting into, you do not have to explain that to me."

So far, at least FOUR of us don't believe that. I don't know how experienced the 2nd [Anonymous] is, but [Amos] and [granny] have been around dogs at LEAST 15 years each, and I've had a dog or several dogs for 57 of the years since being given my first cross-bred pup when I was 10 or 11, plus been a training class instructor in the first city we lived in after we married.

• "I actually haven't applied to any locations yet as most of them don't rent out to apartments from what I've read so far. I'm simply searching for PLACES, not unneeded advice. Thanks again!"

Over-confidence leads to some MIGHTY falls!

If you have an IQ of at least 90 you WILL discover - possibly before you reach 30 - just how MUCH you needed advice. By the time you honestly ANSWER my 9 questions, YOU might be starting to realise it, too.

• "Update 2: since nobody seems to have read my previous update. I appreciate all the commentary from self-proposed "dog experts," but it's not needed."

Sorry, kid. I am NOT "self-proposed". I have not only been an obedience instructor, but also an importer (4 bìtches from Britain, 1 from Germany), a breeder (just over 300 pups), a show steward, a show handler. Also on the committees of:  ☆an all-breeds show club, ☆an obedience club, ☆3 district GSD clubs, ☆twice on the committee of my nation's GSD Advisory Council, and ☆have been officer in charge of about 7 of the schemes it runs plus ☆typeset its quarterly magazines.

• "You CAN potty-train a dog even in an apartment,"

Not ME - I know enough about the anatomy of babies versus the anatomy of dogs to know that a POTTY is totally UNSUITABLE for a dog. However, I HAVE seen photos of a-bit-below-medium-sized dogs (such as a Fox Terrier and a Shetland Sheepdog) standing on the seat of their household's flush-toilet to have a piddle. With VERY rare exceptions, my dogs are required to keep their paws on the floor or the ground, and are NOT allowed on the furniture.

• "I do have a door after all,"

Of course - even the most cheapskate apartment allows each rent-payer a door. Trouble is, it is a door into the communal passage to the lift shaft.

See my  Q1 about a ground-level BACK door and a secure YARD.

• "and I have thought this through many times. Once AGAIN, I have also checked the breeds."

But HAVEN'T had the common sense to NAME any of them. See my Q2.

• "Can anybody answer my QUESTION with HELPFUL feedback? Thanks again! (ps. most shelters I've looked into are only adopting out pitbulls, which aren't allowed here.)"

Really? You have "shelters" that care for bulls that, like pit-ponies, work underground in mines aka pits?

I think you are getting confused with the many cross-breeds that idiots who know nothing worthwhile produce or buy. The ONLY dog breed that has a name something like the one you rattled off is the APBT = American Pit Bull Terrier. But it is not accepted by the AKC or any other nation's official kennel club - just by the United Kennel Club, which was registered in Michigan, USA on 10 February, 1898 by Chauncey Zachariah Bennett because the AKC refused to register his “Bennett's Ring”, so he created his own kennel club. And the "Pit" partof its breed-name is because they were bred to kill rats or another dog in a "basin" called a pit.

Les the aged Kiwi - first pup in 1950, GSD trainer & breeder as of Easter 1968

it better to ask the apartment landlord manager about what are they re stricity breeds law is because most apartments has banned all type of dogs that are mix breed and pure breed depending on the manager of the apartment complex. good luck . make sure you ask them first what kind of dog you can allow have then after that get back to us we will help you finding the dog for you. 

If I had pups to sell I wouldn't sell to any one in an apartment unless that apartment had a yard attached with a back door.  I know how important it is for a dog to have a yard, my dogs has half acre to run about in.  She runs the fence lines for exercise.

How are you going to train the pup to go outside to potty?  There is no back door to run the pup out when you see an accident about to happen.  You cannot use the balcony as a potty place for this dog.  You should NOT use pee pads, those things are disgusting.

Presently you are not in a situation to have a dog.  Wait til you rent/buy a home with a yard.

I've never known shelters to care who they're selling to.  Walk in with cash and you can get any dog you want. 

craigslist is always giving away dogs for a rehoming fee and also there are always dogs left out or left in a yard when the people move...they need loving homes also

I'm sure there are many shelters in this big wide World that will allow apartment dwellers to adopt.  Care to narrow down the area?

Many shelters do, you just have to write down your apartment info and get clearance that way. The shelter may or may not call up your landlord to verify. More often than not, many shelters just want to adopt the dogs out and don't care a lick where you live, as long as you agree to provide basic care and give the dog shelter. I don't want people to misunderstand what I'm saying here, OF COURSE they care, however, shelters are simply less strict. It's the rescues or the BREED restrictive rescues that are very strict, but a run-of-the-mill local shelter? Meh. Just ask around. If you're saying that your apartment already has the ok and pets/dogs are allowed, then knock yourself out. 

You are better without a dog

Dogs serve no purpose. They will leave a hole in your wallet, pocket and walls. 

Most shelters will adopt to people who rent as long as they can verify landlord approval and the adopter has chosen a pet appropriate for that lifestyle.

If both of you work outside the home with a traditional work schedule, a puppy is not an appropriate choice.   How will it relieve itself?  How will it learn how to behave?   How will it get enough physical and mental stimulus?  How will you keep it from barking/crying when you are not at home?  

I do not know what your adoption application looks like, but I'm betting there's something other than being a renter that is causing you to be declined.  

"helped raised dogs for the majority of my childhood"   Yeah...that's kind of like saying you know what it's like to be a full-time parent because you babysat a lot when you were a kid.  It's not even close to the same thing.

No one can recommend specific shelters to you because you didn't tell us where you live.

ETA:  You are an idiot.   Sorry, but you are.   You complain about not being able to adopt because you rent but you have applied to ZERO shelters.  Not a single one.    What is wrong with you?    Go to the shelter and fill out an application.   Be prepared to provide proof that you are allowed a dog.   And then get busy choosing something that you think will work well in a one bedroom apartment.   The shelter staff is there to help ensure that you and your new pet are a match.

You want names of specific shelters that will adopt to you?    FFS.   You haven't been to a single one and therefore haven't been declined by a single one.   Get off your butt and go to the shelters near you.   And be prepared to wait until there is a dog that meets your needs.

If all you really wanted was a list of the shelters near you, you could have Googled that.   No one here is your unpaid personal secretary.

I swear to focking Bob people are dumber every single day.  Dumb, dumb, dumb .

You might have better luck with private individuals or just picking a stray dog up off the street.