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tommynomad · Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Location: on the move

Riverboy, is your dog a shih tzu?

Pet lover: some big dogs are ideally suited to apartments precisely because they are inactive breeds. The great dane is an example: they're huge, but they take up less real space than most dogs because indoors, they have 'their spot' and do not stray from it 10 hours/day.

Casey's Moon is right when she says it depends on the breed. Everything else here is anecdotal. Do yourself a favour: go to www.akc.org and take their test to find the breed best suited to the environment you can provide.

hojucandy · Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Location: In a better place

i have heard that saint bernards, which are ENORMOUS beasts, are also very suited to aprtment living because of their sedentary habit

kermo · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:03 pm Post subject: Re: 1,101

hojucandy · Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Location: In a better place

now there's a suggestion!

get a small horse.... a shetland would not take up much room.

Harpeau · Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Location: Coquitlam, BC

riverboy · Joined: 03 Jun 2003 Location: Incheon

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

I'd recommend keeping track of how long you actually spend at home for a few weeks before you decide for sure. I barely have time for a cat. Unless you spend a lot of time at home it might be best to be very careful in deciding.

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

tommynomad · Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Location: on the move

One of the reasons I'm weaning myself. All too Orwellian for me. I prefer to be treated like an adult. I spend way more time at expatinkorea and Mith's place nowadays. Mith is actually consulting his membership on how to run the BB--tres cool.

red dog · Joined: 31 Oct 2004

I agree with the people who advised you to make sure you have time for a companion animal, and also to be sure you can keep the animal for the rest of his or her life. If you expect to move around a lot, it may be best to wait until you're more settled before getting a dog.

If you're sure you can handle the responsibility, please don't go to a pet store, breeder or street vendor!

www.koreananimals.org

www.karama.or.kr

www.withanimal.net

(These are just a few of the groups that attempt to find homes for abandoned animals ... I'm sure others here would know of many more.)[/url]

hojucandy · Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Location: In a better place

hi red dog - good to see yu still around....

i have to agree about keeping the dog for all its life.

i have travelled a lot for the last 25 years or so and have generally avoided having mammalian pets for this reason. i have kept fish and reptiles instead - they do not get attached to me.

i had a few dogs in PNG - they were basically guard dogs, but nevertheless an attachment was formed and i really regret having to give them up when i left.

dogs form close ties to their owners and it is traumatic for them to change owners when their first owner leaves korea.

so - check with your home country's quarantine service before yu get a dog here. i worked for australian quarantine and i can tell yu right now that it is not worth trying to take a dog from korea to australia... same goes for new zealand. a lengthy, expensive and traumatic quarantine period applies. i think the US and canada are much easier. don;t know about the UK.

casey's moon · Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Location: Daejeon

For those of you who are pet-starved, try visiting a doggy cafe (not to be confused with a bosintang house of course) where you can spend 4000 won on some coffee and spend the afternoon playing with various dogs and cats of all shapes, sizes and colours. I bring my poodle there about once a month and its a blast, although at times the potty behaviours of the resident dogs are absolutely disgusting. Anyway, you don't need a dog to visit, so ask a Korean friend to find out if there is a doggy cafe near your area and stop by. Be warned, however, that some of these dogs are completely un potty trained and will do their business absolutely anywhere. One dog pooped on my husband's shoe today (yes, he was wearing the shoe).

mumblebee · Joined: 26 Jun 2004 Location: Andong

I have found the info here really useful...

I just found out that that my beloved dog, who I had found a new permenent home for last June, has apparently been abandonded by the family that took her...she was found as a stray, and the shelter traced me through an old rabies tag. Her current owners have not made any move to claim her from the shelter back home, so it looks like I may become her owner once more...

She is a 50lb akita/husky cross...and I live in a paved-over suburb. I am wondering if I should try to bring her here...she is used to a much greener environment, where she could run free on trails and swim in the sea. Has anyone here brought over a big dog from home? Advice would be welcome.
thanks

desultude · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 8:44 pm Post subject:

Dazed and Confused · Joined: 10 Jan 2003

I've got two dogs and they make my life better. We live in a house rather than an apartment. There's a small area for them to run around in and to use the bathroom.
However, I agree with the posters who said it is hard to move around with a dog and time must be considered. If you are going to be in Korea only a year or two, I would suggest doing without a pet. Or go for fish, hamster, or birds. If I wasn't in Korea for a long time, I would have never brought my dog or gotten the second one.

And for Hojucandy......You think people who own dogs have stinky houses?? I think people who have children have stinky houses! Those little buggers SMELLLLLLLLLL Shocked