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Apartment-Friendly Dog & Cat Breeds

Compare Apartment-Friendly dog & cat breeds with honest, research-backed profiles covering temperament, grooming, exercise needs, and real day-to-day care — so you can see which breeds are the right fit and pick your match with confidence.

Shiba Inu

Dog breed

Shiba Inu Breed Profile

A clean, compact, strikingly handsome primitive breed with the independence of a cat and the recall of a rumor. Wonderful for owners…

Singapura cat

Cat breed

Singapura Breed Profile

The smallest cat breed and one of the most relentlessly involved — a tiny, muscular, ticked-coat cat that wants to be on…

Egyptian Mau

Cat breed

Egyptian Mau Breed Profile

The only naturally spotted domestic cat breed and the fastest — athletic, intensely loyal to its own people and genuinely shy with…

pug dog

Dog breed

Pug Breed Profile

A genuinely charming, comical companion with one of the best temperaments in the toy group — and a flat face that brings…

American Curl cat

Cat breed

American Curl Breed Profile

A friendly, adaptable, perpetually kittenish cat whose backward-curling ears come from a mutation that — unusually among distinctive cat traits — carries…

Selkirk Rex Cat

Cat breed

Selkirk Rex Breed Profile

The calmest of the curly-coated breeds by a wide margin — a patient, cuddly, heavy-boned cat that inherited its temperament from Persians…

Turkish Angora

Cat breed

Turkish Angora Breed Profile

An elegant, athletic, take-charge cat that stays playful for life and genuinely runs the household — with a silky single coat that…

Maltese

Dog breed

Maltese Breed Profile

A gentle, playful, genuinely sweet-natured lap dog that suits quiet homes and attentive owners — provided you accept a daily coat commitment…

Chihuahua

Dog breed

Chihuahua Breed Profile

A bold, devoted, genuinely long-lived companion that is far more dog than its size suggests — and far more often ruined by…

Tonkinese

Cat breed

Tonkinese Breed Profile

The middle path between Siamese and Burmese — social, playful and affectionate without the Siamese volume or the Burmese neediness taken to…