When your dog hates his new home
The four-legged roommate with moving worries
Moving is tiring. Whether you’re bouncing from off-campus apartment to a condominium to a new home, there’s a lot involved — signing leases or closing paperwork, meeting the new landlord or neighbors, hiring movers or renting a truck, and packing up all your belongings or giving them away on Craigslist. You’ve checked all of these jobs off of your to-do list but forgot one of the most important parts of the move: your dog.
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To those of you who were stuck in leases or closing on homes before you knew that coronavirus was coming — who knew in January what May would look like? — that’s yet another obstacle to add to your list (and your dog’s). But for those of you who are still in the early moving stages (80 percent of the 40 million people who move each year do so between March to September), now is as good of a time as any to make your dog part of the moving process.
Find out just how strict that no-pet policy is. In one of my first apartments, no dogs were allowed. So I was confused about why my neighbor had a dog, who I saw her walking constantly. It turns out that that dog was grandfathered in before the rules changed. When my neighbor got sick and hurt her leg, another neighbor in the building volunteered to walk her dog.