How to Groom Your Cat at Home Without the Stress In a small apartment, loose cat hair reaches every surface within days, and a matted coat or overgrown nails are…

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How Often Should You Really Clean Your Cat’s Litter Box The clumps are out, the box looks clean, and your cat still steps in, sniffs, scratches the wall and leaves…

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How to Keep an Indoor Cat From Getting Bored The midnight sprint across a 600-square-foot apartment does not just startle you. It wakes the neighbor below, and the thud…

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The Best Dog Breeds for Apartment Living (and Which to Avoid) The decision to get a dog in an apartment runs into two real constraints: building rules that may ban the…

Jamie Cole · 6 min read

How Much Exercise Does Your Dog Really Need Indoors Rain turned the evening walk into one lap around the block, and now your dog is circling the couch while…

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How to Potty Train a Puppy in an Apartment With No Yard It is 6 a.m., the puppy is whining at the crate door, and the nearest grass is one elevator, one…

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Why Your Dog Destroys Things When Left Alone You come home and find the door frame scratched through, the couch cushion shredded, and a dog pressed into the…

Jamie Cole · 6 min read

Why Your Dog Follows You Everywhere and When to Worry Your dog follows you from the bedroom to the kitchen, waits outside the bathroom door, and is already at your…

Jamie Cole · 6 min read

How to Stop Your Cat From Meowing at Night When your cat starts yowling at midnight in a one-bedroom apartment, the sound travels through every wall. Neighbors hear it.…

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How to Keep Your Pet Calm During Vet Visits The carrier disappears into a closet between vet visits, and your cat notices the moment it reappears. In an apartment,…

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How to Trim Your Pet’s Nails at Home Without Stress Clicking nails on the hardwood floor of an apartment carry sound straight through to the neighbor below. That sound is…

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How to Spot and Prevent Obesity in Indoor Pets In a building with no yard, a dog's only exercise is a trip down the elevator and a lap around…

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Window Perches and Vertical Space Ideas for Apartment Cats The floor of a small apartment is already claimed: furniture, a path to the kitchen, maybe a litter box tucked…

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How to Keep a Big Dog Happy in a Small Apartment A 70-pound dog in a small apartment takes up more than floor space. It takes up the main walkway, triggers…

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Where to Put the Litter Box in a Small Apartment In a studio or one-bedroom apartment, the litter box is never more than a few feet from where you sleep,…

Jamie Cole · 6 min read