CityDogsLife is about raising a dog when your whole home is smaller than most backyards. We started it because we couldn’t find straight answers to that exact problem: how to potty train over a concrete courtyard, what to do with a bored dog on a rainy work-from-home day, which crate fits a studio without eating the sofa.
Who runs this
The City Dogs Life editorial team, a small group of dog owners working through OmniLearn Consulting Commerce LLC. The team picks what gets covered, checks the sourcing behind each guide and answers for what goes out. Articles carry the team’s name rather than a personal byline, so there is no portrait or credential attached to them.
None of us is a veterinarian. When a question needs one, we quote one and link to where it came from. You can write to the team at hello@citydogslife.com.
What we write about
Mostly the problems that come with walls shared on three sides. Leases, neighbours and noise complaints. Barking, leash pulling and separation, which are the things that get a tenant a letter from the building. Feeding, grooming and walks in bad weather, plus the gear that gets used every morning rather than once. And first dogs, including the questions people feel silly asking out loud.
Part of the library is in Spanish. Those pages were written in Spanish from the start, not run through a translator.
How a guide gets written
It starts the boring way, with reading: breed standards from the national kennel clubs, position statements from veterinary and animal-behavior organizations, the manuals that ship with the products. Then we hold that up against a real apartment, because the theory and the 5am reality of a puppy who won’t settle are not the same thing. If a guide gives you a crate size or a feeding window, there is a reason behind the number, and we try to put that reasoning on the page so you can judge it.
Older articles get reopened. Advice changes, products get discontinued, and a link that worked last year goes nowhere now. When we catch one of those, we fix it and mark the guide as refreshed.
Gear and affiliate links
Some guides link to products, and some of those links pay us a commission if you buy through them. That is how the site pays for itself. It doesn’t decide what we suggest: we point to the crate, gate or enzyme cleaner we would use with our own dogs, and the page says when a link is an affiliate one. The details are on the affiliate disclosure page.
One limit we won’t cross
We can explain what usually causes a behavior, or what a vet tends to check first. We can’t examine your dog. If something looks painful, sudden or just wrong, call your vet or an emergency clinic, and read us afterward.
Found a mistake?
If a guide is wrong, out of date or missing something obvious, tell us through the contact page. A person reads every message.