Where do you live

[angenbear]

I live in the superbs in an apartment

[Ginger's Mom]

We live in the suburbs, in a house.

Angenbear, it's nice that you found an apartment that accepts large-breed dogs! :) Many in our area only let you have small pets. Do you have easy access to the yard/lawn for Bear to go potty?

[sidneyandfishey]

I live on a farm in the country on about 400 acres. We have pigs, horses and cattle along with 3 cats and 3 dogs.

[angenbear]

We live in the suburbs, in a house.

Angenbear, it's nice that you found an apartment that accepts large-breed dogs! :) Many in our area only let you have small pets. Do you have easy access to the yard/lawn for Bear to go potty?

Well I live in the superbs/city. but in my opinion, I consider it the superbs, outskirts of Sacramento. There are limited places for large breeds though so I made sure before I got the apartment that it allowed large dogs. Yes, it has a park across the apartments, and there's a nature trail that when I have the time and the weather is nice that i'll take Bear for a walk. I usually walk 10 feet to reach grass and Bear uses that area.

[HenryWI]

Our home is basically in the country (just outside a town of 8000 people). Also in the middle of the woods! A big change for two "city" kids.....

[theGoldenPup]

We're on a farm. We have cattle and horses. But the yard may be fenced soon, which will be nice. We have many feilds and have trails to walk on (In late June/early July Blaze and I go every day and pick berries...! Have to figure out how to do it with two doggers this year), which is just great. We have ponds for them to swim, and its really quite nice. (And I found out about trails I can use on someone elses property. Definately will do a lot of exploring this spring!)

GoldenPup

[hellzpawn]

I'm in a city apartment :)

No owned garden but there is a small field downstairs for herb's potty needs and a park nearby with a dog run. :)

[Goldenglittergirl]

I live in a Townhouse in the subarbs. We have a fenced backyard and there is a really cool dog park a few miles away.

[GoldenFrost]

I live on Lake Huron in a resort village, only about 50 people full time live there. Tara has a big back yard plus bush or a beach to run on

[Jenmomto2]

I live in a small town called Keswick in Ontario. I would love to live in a house with lots of property for kobi to run run run!!
We have some vacan land behind our house where i take him so hopefully they won't build on it ofr a lONG time!

Jenny cheerleade

[Jilly]

Can someone please tell me what a superb and a subarb are ??? Tee hee! Sorry, we all make tapping errors, even me. Something about using a keyboard that make the fingers work faster than the brain !

[sandybch]

I live in a house in the suburbs of Tampa Florida. Is anyone else on the boards from Tampa? I thought it would be cool to hook up with some other Tampons (yes that's what we call ourselves!) to maybe trade off vacation or emergency dog sitting if it ever was necessary.
I would be more than happy to give my baby dog a playmate for a few days if someone ever needed it. I have NEVER left my dogs in a kennel (I went to look at one once and the smell & noise completely turned me off, I couldn't imagine my golden being left there for even an hour), and I know how hard it can be to find someone you know & trust to watch your pet for you. Finding a babysitter is easy, but it always seems so hard to find a friend or relative to dogsit - I can't imagine why! They're so much fun to be around!

[ilovemydixie]

We live in the woods, with lots of animal friends.

[ChicagoCanine]

I put city-house because technically we are in the city, but it "feels" a lot like the suburbs and if I walk one block I will be in the suburbs.

[CaynCher]

We live in a house on Florida's southeast coast within city limits & approximately a mile from the ocean. Also have a country lakehouse in he middle of he state in central Florida. I/we travel between the houses with the cats & Goldens. :dogbark :reddogx

[doreen]

Hi.

I live on the outskirts of Brisbane Queensland Australia. Its country quiet town. We live in a lowset house on 1500 sqm block fully fenced so my animals have a good run. :dogbark :dogbark doggiex1

would not mind swapping with some of you thou Florida sounds good cayncher & near the beach :)

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[clement's golden rule]

i live in a rented house on an acre on a virtual bog.. in a very small village , royal oak, md.. it's between easton and st michaels on the eastern shore.. I don' t let my dogs run, in the neighbor hood, but take them down the road a bit, for their daily 3 mile jaunt.. figure they don't need tobe harrassing the neighbors, who seem to be concerned about the sheer size of them.. and I have always thought that they don't need to be that familiar with their busy road... so they "oout to poty " on leashes, in the winter we frequent the bog, but there's way to much poison ivy, stanky water to do that now... my move here, was for them to be outta a bad, city neighbor situation, so I hope that they're more happy here.. I am, for them... wish they could tell me

[kelsey]

currently we are living in a house with about 20ft of land facing the rainforest in kuala lumpur, malaysia. we used to stay in a condominium with our golden, Roxy till she was 8 months.we moved to the house and adopted another golden, Casper who is 5.

right now Roxy, 1 and Casper, 5 lives with us in the house, we converted our living room area as their sleeping area.

we are moving back home to Newfoundland, Canada in October and we would be flying the 2 dogs with us. They will then live in our house, facing the golf course next to a river with 2 acres of land to run around. i cant wait!!!!

and they have never played in snow......so you can imagine how excited i am to have them over.

[Brandy and Charlie's Mom]

Gosh, we've lived all over the country! We've moved 15 times in 19 years for my husband's career. We've acquired dogs along the way, and they're always important parts of planning our next adventure.

Right now we're living in the suburbs, in a house with an unfenced back yard. So we keep leashes by the front door to grab when it's walk time or one of our "kids" needs to potty.

We moved here after living on several acres in the country just north of Houston. We plan to return to that area permanently (hurray!) in a couple of years. We own 3.5 acres of land and plan to build a dog-friendly house on it.

[ZandersStory]

Hey!

As some of you know, Zander and I live iin McKinney, Texas right now, but we're moving to New Brunswick, Canada(My home-province). Here in Texas, Zander and I live with my mother in the suburbs/borderline country.. Our community is surrounded by corn fields and cow pastures. :)

**Here's a pic of our house.. I need to get a shot of the backyard.**
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a237/Tebriel/000_6381.jpg

In Canada we'll be living in the same sort of situation(Suburbs/borderline country), except instead of fields surrounding our community, there's a dense forests. I'm excited for Zander to see snow for his very first time this winter. :D
The house is on almost a 2 acre lot, scattered with trees, a fish pond and some small gardens.

**The only picture I have of our yard is one that was taken as a close-up of a kitten our kitty had last summer. You can kind of get the feel of how pretty it is**
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a237/Tebriel/RicksPics2015.jpg

-Brittany :reddogx

[Boondox]

We live in the country on the side of a hardwood forested hill in northern Vermont. Paradise! If you squint at the hill behind the lodge in the foreground, then slide your eyes down the right of the slope, you'll see a stand of pine trees. That's the windbreak around our house. We and our goldens own the entire hill.

[Brandy and Charlie's Mom]

Gorgeous, Boondox!

I'd probably consider all that land paradise as well for 3 seasons a year. As a Southern California gal born and raised, I never could adjust to living in places that had white, flaky frozen stuff falling from the sky. I'll admit I'm a weather wimp. Anything below 70 degrees is definitely too cold! :laugh2

[Jo Ellen]

Damn Boondox, can I come live with you? :grwag

[clement's golden rule]

could we at least come and visit???
jenn and jaeger...we'll bring joellen and daisy...???

[Jo Ellen]

:grwag :grwag :grwag

[Boondox]

Gorgeous, Boondox!

I'd probably consider all that land paradise as well for 3 seasons a year. As a Southern California gal born and raised, I never could adjust to living in places that had white, flaky frozen stuff falling from the sky. I'll admit I'm a weather wimp. Anything below 70 degrees is definitely too cold! :laugh2

Robin -- I'm a southern California transplant myself! Born and raised in San Diego. Left for a few years to travel with the Marines, then came back for grad school. I was teaching at SDSU minding my own business when I met this fascinating woman from Vermont. One thing led to another, but with five generations buried in her side yard her roots were a bit deeper than mine...so I moved back east and have never regretted it! Of course, it helps that I'm miserably hot at anything over 72 degrees!

This time of the year is actually the toughest. Lows around freezing and highs in the forties, but wind-blown rain that cuts to the bone. Around January we'll have a month or so of minus 30 lows and highs that never reach zero. Personally I find that easier to take than the rain! Then, in March when it warms up to the 30s above, all the locals think it's a heat wave and run around in t-shirts much to the amazement of the tourists. Visitors wonder how we can cope...but we glory in the fact that thirty is 60 degrees warmer than the month before! :D

[johnwa]

We live in the country on the side of a hardwood forested hill in northern Vermont.

--I visited that area a few years ago. I drove all the way up I-91, and then over to northern NH, white mountain region. Looking forward to visiting again. :)

[GoForTheGold]

I live in the superb suburbs, too. :)

Well I live in the superbs/city. but in my opinion, I consider it the superbs, outskirts of Sacramento. There are limited places for large breeds though so I made sure before I got the apartment that it allowed large dogs. Yes, it has a park across the apartments, and there's a nature trail that when I have the time and the weather is nice that i'll take Bear for a walk. I usually walk 10 feet to reach grass and Bear uses that area.

[Legend's Mom]

WE have 100 acres of PURE COUNTRY in Texas and here is a pic of an area in our backyard on the way to the pond....Allie was the only one close enough to snap a pic! ;)


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v717/Summers2babies/OURLAND.jpg


We have 3 ponds on our land, and tons and tons of Oak and Sycamore trees...I have lived here basically my whole life and i love it! :029

[Buffy's Mom]

We live in a very small city in West Central Ohio. We have a fenced backyard that is pretty large - about 1/4 acre. Plus we have sidewalks all around the neighborhood which makes it very nice for walks and we're only 5 blocks from a paved bike path which is another nice place for walks.

[Tom]

Wow. Time to resurrect this old thread just 'cause it's interesting to find out where everyone's from.

We, too, live in the (superb) Virginia suburbs west of of DC. Single family, detached on about 1/4 acre with a 1-acre community-owned pond just off our backyard.

Coincidentally, I too hail mostly from So. California (San Diego) as others here have confessed. I thought that I couldn't take the white stuff during the winter but have gotten used to it over the 28 years I've been away in full-fledged "4 season" climates.

[Giovanna]

We live in she suburbs of E Houston,TX on one acre

[Skokie]

We live in Toronto,Canada, but we have a vacation home about 3 hours north of Toronto....best of both worlds...city and country living. :dogbark

[gnhykn]

This is our house in the city, normal smaller yard thats fenced. We do have 40 acres right outside out town, too.

[gnhykn]

we spend alot of time in the woods and water too, but keep the house in the city for now.

[BlueLeaf18]

We live about 45 minutes north of Toronto, a tiny town called King City. About 3000 people. Anyways, I put country but I guess we could be considered suburb. Although we do have 3 acres of land as our backyard. We have a small invisible fenced in area just so we can let Ceasar out in the morning, but we still play in the rest of the land.

[furkidcheyenne]

Wow, so thrilled for all of you that have such wonderful yards and land!! How great!! That is my future goal. At least a big backyard to play with my furkids if not some land with a pond or pool!! I have been in an apartment for the past several years and have had both of my dogs since they were puppies raised in a one bedroom apartment in North Carolina. I definitely get to walk a lot since there is no yard to play in day to day but they know the way to grandma's house that has an acre or two to run around at and can't hardly contain themselves on the way there ha! Two goldens in a small space is sometimes a bit crowded but I love them and all their little quirks and they are probably the only ones I could spend that much time in that little space with and they tolerate me sleeping in the bed too ha!!

[mybayleegirl]

i live in a suburb outside of buffalo NY, actually it has been said we live in the second safest place in the nation. Not to toot my own horn or anything like that. We have a small cape house with a very nice size yard and a very quiet neighboorhood. Too bad walking left a bad taste in baylee's mouth when she and I were charged by a giant dog when she was a puppy, luckily I was the only one bitten, but if we are out walking and a dog is barking a lot she still tries to jump into my arms.

[Sammy in Tulsa]

This thread has been sitting here for a year and a half.

We live in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the suburbs. We have a small yard for the dogs, then the back yard backs up to what we call the green belt. It is large enough, and we can plant on the property and consider it ours, but we cannot put up a fence. The yard is by a ravine that was built to prevent floods, and parts of it are where the utilities for our neighborhood are buried.

We can walk along the ravine, and have some privacy from traffic if we want it.

Sammy

[Jo Ellen]

Sammy in Tulsa, how do you deal with the tornados? How do your dogs do in storms?

[Sammy in Tulsa]

First of all I need to notice the difference between a person's start date, and the date of the last post. I am referring to my statement about the last post before mine being a year and a half ago. Gee.

We are all afraid of storms. Rocky, the dog we just lost was very afraid. Ricky is ok as long as we are there. Our refuge from a storm is in the bathroom where the dogs spend most of their time. The other bathrooms have too much glass, and there is none in the bathroom off of the Rec room.

The dogs are reassured, and seem fine if we are with them - and we usually are. Around here the scariest thing is to be driving because so many people just love the Bradford Pear trees, and they are very brittle. In a storm a large branch can suddenly break off, and land in the street or wherever it is. The trees are lovely when they bloom, but most people don't know how to care for them so in a storm they can be devastating.

When there are storms, we know in advance to start watching for them, and if there are tornadoes around, we have a city alarm system that goes off. As long as we are with the dogs, they seem to be ok.

Do you live in an area that isn't threatened by storms? It seems like most areas have something to worry about.

Sammy

[Jo Ellen]

We all seem to adapt so well, don't we? I live in an area where there's thunderstorms but tornadoes are extremely rare. Daisy used to be very afraid of storms, when we first moved here from the West Coast (rarely heard thunder over there). She used to hide in the bathtub, I felt so bad for her. That was when I worked 1/2 hour away from home. One day there was a bad storm coming through and I just told my boss I had to go, and I did ... GO doggiex1 doggiex1 doggiex1 ..... I drove home as quickly as I could, but the storm passed before I got there. She was fine. I was a wreck !! :rolleyes:

She's comfortable with storms now though. Lots of times we sit out on the porch and watch them. I guess just going through a few was all she needed. I still try to be home with her if an especially bad one comes through....thankfully I only work 5 minutes away so it's easier to race home now !!

If I lived in Oklahoma, I'd be unemployed I think :laugh2

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[chrcos]

Hi, I live in Kifissia outside of Athens in Greece in a block of flats. Thank God we have a pool and a big park near by. I envy you all who live in the country! Great lanscape!!!

[konabear]

Wow...I'm just amazed how many people from Canada there are on this post. We live in Lewisville, TX right next to Lake Lewisville. New house, we specifically chose it because of the big lot, 1/3 of an acre and it's not quite yet developed in the surrounding areas. Give it time though. We bought a racketball racket to hit the tennis balls. Gives Kona a good workout. Thats my husband at the other end of the yard, before we closed on the house. It measures about 160 feet wide, thats alot of grass to mow! Took me 2 hours just to mow the BACK.

[Soda]

Wow! great digs there. Two hours is not too bad to have all that space!

[Cettie]

We' re on 600 acres in the boonies, lots of room for our 4 dogs and 4 cats to enjoy themselves.

[Friends of Zoe]

Currently living in a 1000 sq.ft. apartment in Brookline MA (city surrounded on 3 sides by Boston)...right across Beacon St. from the green line subway. We do surprisingly well with dogs in this area; we can walk to 3 parks with off leash hours and there are tons more within a short drive or train ride. We desperately want a house, though, because we need a fenced in yard (can't go to parks when it's dark out and Zoe is hyper!). We'll be moving to somewhere cheaper in/around Boston in May 2008 and hopefully buying that house with a "huge yard" (I consider 1/4 acre gigantic, since I'm Connecticut-born and raised) in summer 2009.

So many people from interesting places on here! I'm definitely considering relocating in maybe a decade or so, when I'm hopefully part-way to tenure at a university. I love the Boston area but would like to move somewhere with more land in the greater metro area (you can move an hour outside of Boston and still only get 1/4 acre) and somewhere colder. I'm considering greater Minneapolis and Milwaukee, as well as several areas in Canada (Waterloo/Kitchener Ontario, Winnipeg, Calgary, or Regina). I've also always wanted to live in NYC, but that's not really improving on my dog situation!

[Simosgirl]

I put country- Farm/Apartment because we are no where near being a suburb but we aren't really a "city" either.We are in a 1300 sq ft upper apartment in a city (on the very edge of it since our view from our bedroom window is gorgeous bluffs and corn fields). Well its only a city of 5,000 in Central WI ( I don't want to say small town since I've learned that small town around here is under 1,000). I hate not having a yard for Libby but when we visit my parents in Kenosha, WI she's got a HUGE yard (well about an acre) with 3 other dogs to run around with. I'm from the Chicago suburbs so I'm with Heather R in thinking that 1/4 of an acre is big.

Libby does pretty good in the apartment and while we don't have any dog parks around, she's got some doggy friends in the complex and we have plenty of space to walk. Plus, in the warmer months, we have beautiful parks around here to explore!

[amborg2]

Front:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2038/2060361901_6f6d246bba_m.jpg

Backyard:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2240/2061144072_e0e5397a70_m.jpg

We're fortunate, we live in a subdivision, but our back yard runs into land owned by that county that cannot be developed. We also have two neighbor's yards that come to meet ours off of the corner, so it looks much bigger than it really is. In all less than a 1/2 acre but lots of room to run.