Doggy friendly apartment!

I visited a doggy friendly apartment building during my recent four-day visit to Japan! This type of apartments are very rare, especially outside metropolitan cities. This particular one is the first such apartments in my hometown, a provincial city with a population of about 280,000.




These are some highlights of the apartments.

• In this room near the entrance of the building, you can wash your dog's paws and legs after a walk. In addition to an ordinary tap with a shower head, there are two nozzles near the bottom of the sink, and the water temperature is adjustable. There is also a special bin for doggy poo, which looks and works like a toilet without a seat.
  
  
  
  
• There is a dog run with a little set of agility equipment.
  
  
  
  
• In the common lounge, where seminars about dogs are held occasionally, resident dogs' handpainted portraits are hung on a wall.
  
  
  
  
• By the entrance of each unit, there is a hook specially designed for dog leads. It is easy to hook a lead on it, but the lead doesn't slip off once it is on the hook.
  
  
  
  
• The floor is nonslip. The lower part of walls of the units is scratch proof and the upper part eliminates the odor with photocatalysis, and the walls themselves are soundproof.
  
  
• The vanity sink in the bathroom is large enough to shampoo a small or medium dog in it.
  
  
• All power points are located at a height out of reach of small and medium dogs for safety.

Also, I met these cute doggies during my stay in Japan. :-) Purin and Coo live in the doggy friendly apartment I visited, and Cocoa is my mother's dog.

Purin the Chihuahua

Kurotaro (aka Coo) the Chihuahua

Cocoa the Toy Poodle

Finally I will show you a video of Cinnamon doing her latest trick. While she is doing her trick, Cookie is trying to get some share of the reward.

* I have reposted a new version of the video in higher quality in the next post. Click here to see the original video.