I’m a lifelong Philadelphia area resident, and a passionate defendant of our wonderful city. The restaurants, the history, the beautiful architecture: Philadelphia has a lot to offer. One area where we seem to fall short is dog friendliness. I often hear from clients how difficult it is to find a dog-friendly apartment. There are a few dog parks in the city (more now than ever before) but according to apartment listing website Zumper, Philadelphia ranks a lowly 76th on the list of pet-friendly cities.
The fact that our ranking is 76 is not lost on this history buff, but it also means we have a long way to go to improve our pet friendliness! What are your suggestions as to how we can make Philadelphia more pet friendly?
I recently dealt with several months of hungry cat 4:00am wake-ups thanks to my cat Pudge (pictured at left, helping with an art project). Pudge started waking me up earlier and earlier each morning, demanding food by screaming all around the house, jumping on me while I was sleeping, and knocking items off my bedside table. I bought an automatic feeder and set it to feed Angry Cat at various random times throughout the night; this didn’t help. I tried switching him from wet food to dry food before bed; this didn’t help and gave him diarrhea. My husband and I got to the point where we were alternating getting up at 4am, to sit in the darkened living room and squirt Pudge with a water bottle whenever he started screaming. We were as sleep deprived as when my son was a newborn.
