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.
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…
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…
Cat breed
Oriental Shorthair Breed Profile
A Siamese in every way except color — brilliant, athletic, relentlessly involved and extremely loud. Superb for someone who wants a cat…
Cat breed
Cornish Rex Breed Profile
A slender, acrobatic, permanently kittenish cat with a tight wavy coat made only of undercoat — warm, funny and constantly involved. Needs…
Cat breed
Birman Breed Profile
A gentle, quiet, easygoing colorpoint cat with distinctive white gloves — affectionate without being demanding, and one of the better semi-longhaired breeds…
Cat breed
Devon Rex Breed Profile
A small, wavy-coated, enormously social cat that rides on shoulders and seeks out warmth and company constantly — delightful for people who…
Cat breed
Burmese Breed Profile
Possibly the most people-dependent cat breed there is — affectionate, funny, and genuinely lap-oriented in a way most cats are not. That…
Dog breed
Havanese Breed Profile
One of the best small companion dogs available — affectionate, trainable, sturdy for its size, and genuinely good with children. The long…
Dog breed
Pomeranian Breed Profile
A bold, bright, entertaining toy dog with a genuinely big personality — excellent company for attentive owners, but the heavy double coat,…
Cat breed
British Shorthair Breed Profile
A calm, undemanding, quietly affectionate cat that suits apartments and working households well — but this is a companion that sits beside…