Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Co-Ownership of Dogs in Cohousing

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

> On Jul 13, 2023, at 1:48 PM, Patricia Henschen via Cohousing-L <cohousing-l 
> [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
> 
> I’partially disabled in terms of mobility and find myself unable to give the 
> dog the consistent care he needs.
> I am wondering if any cohousing communities have had success in “dog 
> sharing,” i.e., where two households share primary responsibility for the 
> dog, and where the dog spends time in both households. I would like to keep 
> this little dog--“Benney"--in River Song if at all possible.

Ann Zabaldo is very busy right now and may not chime in on this so I’ll pass on 
that she has often done dog care for her own enjoyment. After her dog died and 
she was not up to taking on full-time care of a dog, she did doggie daycare for 
a few hours a day for dogs that were otherwise home alone. Or whose owners were 
in the hospital, etc. 

It worked very well. There are various members of the community who would walk 
the dogs when necessary. She was a back up so when she wasn’t available it 
wasn’t a huge responsibility she had to worry about.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org