New York City is full of dog-lovers. But being a dog-lover in this city comes with challenges. Here are the struggles of a New Yorker who loves dogs:
1. Your landlord charges extra to have a dog in your apartment
2. So you have to pay $500 a month for companionship
3. Or pine over the friend you’ll never have (until your lease ends)
4. If you don’t have a dog, you get sad every time you go to the park
5. You get jealous of all the happy humans with their dogs
6. You’re jealous of the dog-walkers who get to play with dogs for a living
7. You keep on making plans to get a dog and then you realize you can’t pay your bills
8. Or you look at your dead window plants and wonder how you could take care of an animal
9. Maybe your apartment building doesn’t even allow dogs
10. But you get one anyway, and panic every time the super knocks on your door
11. If you have a dog, you can’t stand to leave your dog alone while you go to work
12. Actually you can’t stand to leave her alone ever
13. You try to pretend she’s a service dog so you can take her out to dinner with you
14. You wish you had a backyard where she could run around whenever she wanted
15. You probably want another dog
16. You wish you could save all of the shelter dogs in the city
17. But two dogs in your tiny apartment would be a bit much
18. You consider moving to the countryside so you can adopt more dogs
19. But you don’t, because your dog loves NYC just as much as you do
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