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What Is Dogsharing?

Posted on 13. Jan, 2010 by Jaimie Scott in Blissful Dog Blog

Dogsharing can take many forms. Maybe you are frequently away from home, but would like to have a dog nonetheless. If the idea of having to kennel your dog every time you travel does not appeal to you, then you might want to co-own a dog or do a dogshare with someone that lives in your area. Or suppose you feel guilty every time you leave home to go to work and leave your dog behind. It may very well be the case that you have someone on your very street that is retired or has small children that would love to have the company of a dog during the day while you are at work, especially if it meant that they didn’t have the responsibility of owning a dog the rest of the time. These are just a couple of the scenarios that might make dogsharing an appealling option for both you and your dog.

There are numerous advantages to a dogshare for both you and your dog.  These may include:

• activity for your dog
• activity for your dogshare partner
• preventing your dog from getting bored
• preventing your dogshare partner from getting bored
• splitting of the expense, time, energy, and commitment required to own a dog
• mental stimulation for your dog from living in two separate households with different owners and rules
• peace of mind that your dog has companionship while not with you
• socialization for your dog

Here are a few scenarios that might justify a dogshare:

• You travel often
• You work long hours
• You are unable to give your dog the exercise your dog needs due to health limitations
• Your dog barks or gets into trouble when left alone
• Your neighbor’s dog barks when left alone
• Your dog spends too much time alone

Well, what do you think? Post your comments below. I’ve yet to meet anyone that is actively participating in a dogshare, yet everyone I mention the idea to thinks it has a lot of merit. I’m hoping to create my own national dogsharing database and host it right here on my website. The most immediate stumbling block is that I have to learn MySQL in order to create the database. Anyone out there with database creation skills that would be interested in exchanging services? Dog training or web analytics consulting for database creation?

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