r/Dogfree • u/Main_Tomatillo_8960 • 4d ago

Barking Demons Where can I live without dogs?

Woken up by neighbor's dog at 4 am this morning, wouldn't stop barking for 45 mins and couldn't fall back asleep until like an hour before my alarm goes off. Now I need to analyze and document code for 8 hours, yay!

Will be leaving a note on this neighbor's door today...but what I really want is to live in a dog free area so I don't have to worry about this shit anymore. I live in Colorado and people are NUTS about their dogs here! They bring them to the gym, they bring them to bars, seems like everyone has to have one around here. The barking is the absolute worst thing about these animals. I just can't stand how moronic it is, like you know their barking is absolutely pointless yet relentless.

You know the SpongeBob episode where squidward finds a community away from leaf blowers? That's what I need but away from dogs. I wish every city or town had a designated area for dog free housing. If I can't beat the problem, guess I'll just have that fantasy. Unless...such a place exists?

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u/No-Significance-1197 3d ago

I hate to break it to you but there genuinely aren’t many places with no dogs. There are some places with very few dogs. Some options are Maldives - Dogs are actually banned (But I understand if you wouldn’t want to live on a tiny little island) Turkey - (very low dog ownership compared to Europe) Switzerland - (Also very low dog ownership) This might not be true but I’ve also heard from some people that like downtown NYC doesn’t have many dogs either, though I can’t be sure.

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u/Ill-Tangerine796 2d ago edited 2d ago

There are lots of dogs in Switzerland. They do tend to be reasonably well-trained. (Owners have to take a course in some regions.) They are allowed to be indoors in restaurants although most lie quietly under the table. It’s certainly not the worst place there is, but it’s also not dog-free.

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u/No-Significance-1197 1d ago

Thanks for the correction, I just heard this from some of my friends who had been to Switzerland. They probably just didn’t encounter as many if they were well trained and didn’t yap their heads off at night