Sniffspot is a lifesaver. I don’t have a yard yet, so I have to take my 1 yr old pup places for him to run around and sniff off-leash. I like Sniffspot because the yards are clean of dog poop, and I don’t have to worry about aggression or disease from other dogs. And it’s only like $5-7 an hour.
Oh, I completely see the utility of the app... But I hate living in a timeline when generations are growing up seeing the white picket fence dream partitioned and rented and leased to people who will never be able to buy it outright, one component at a time.
You'd be surprised. In the 1950s and 60s the average suburb lawn size was 1.5 acres with model houses of only ~1000sqft for 3.5 people. Big yards were very much the American Suburb dream.
In Baton Rouge, not east coast, my parents’ house is in a subdivision about that age, and we had the biggest yard of nearly all my friends growing up, and the lot is 3/4 of an acre. Others in this neighborhood are 1/2 an acre, to the size of ours. I think the next neighborhood over is 1/3 to 1/2.
Here's Levittown after construction in 1947 - If we assume those are standard model homes at 833sqft, then yeah, the lawn looks like it fits about 5-7 of them. 1-1.5acres.
honestly the real reason for sniffspot is bc dog owners are fucking awful now, entitled and clueless and don’t care if their dogs are violent — and a LOT of them are
it wasn’t like that when i was a kid. dogs could run around with no fear of being attacked.
A friend of mine is actually looking into using this app because their rescue dog is great with humans but *extremely* aggressive toward other dogs. Like only goes on walks with a muzzle aggressive. They do own a home, but don't have a big enough yard for her to really stretch her legs.
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The difference in Europe is most owners train their dogs.
even better when traveling
those picket fenced yards were usually quite small
the houses were also like 650-1000 ft yeah
it wasn’t like that when i was a kid. dogs could run around with no fear of being attacked.
Can’t fix stupid.