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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Do Shiba Inus make good apartment dogs? Google gives conflicting answers -- some people say they need a fenced backyard so they can run around, and others say they do fine in apartments so long as the owners give them plenty of exercise.
Since they're very popular in Japan, where most people live in small apartments, I think they'd probably make a suitable apartment pet, but does anyone here have personal experience?
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They are great apt dogs because they are super quiet, they are small, and they can be crate trained super easily. In fact you don't even have to train to goto the bathroom. They will not go in the house. Also they don't have much of a dog smell to them.
Drawback from being too clean of a dog though. I have a pretty big back yard but my shiba will not pee or crap in it. I have to take her to the park 365 days of the year. Even when it's -30 and we are freezing our asses off.
Also because of our stupid chinooks they shed 25 times a year instead of the usual 2 times everywhere else besides Calgary.