I have heard stories about Cornell being super dog-friendly with students bringing their dogs to classes and keeping them in their dorms, but all I could find on the school’s website makes it sound like pets other than service animals are forbidden. Which is correct?
I have never heard of students keeping dogs in dorms. There are some people who are allergic to pets, so it wouldn’t be feasible to allow pets in such a close quarter. On the other hand, most students move off campus after the first year, as long as the landlord is fine with pets then one could have it in the apartment/house. I have been to offices where people had their dogs there.
A dog in a small double dorm room? Think about it. And think how the dog would feel too. Some off campus landlords forbid pets because students in the past just leave the animal behind when they graduate.
They might allow therapy animals too. Either way, I would really hesitate to bring a dog. I have a small dog, the size of the room wouldn’t be a problem. However, when I was in college my schedule varied widely from day to day. Some semesters I had back to back classes and a job and had days where I didn’t get back to my room for most of the day. I had years where my assigned dorm room was on the 3rd or 4th floor and a long way from an outside door.
My sweet little dog would be stressed out by people passing by and slamming doors in hallways while he was stuck alone in the dorm room most of the day. He likes having something of a schedule and routine. It really wouldn’t be fair to him, IMO, to bring him to college.
There was this campus legend ‘back in the day’ that some benefactor had stipulated that dogs be allowed to roam free on campus, so you would occasionally see a dog wander into lecture hall. I never saw a dog living in a dorm, but some fraternities had dogs. (Best not to think about the care of those dogs.) I asked my son about dogs when he started there, and he said he had never heard such a thing.
I never heard of Cornell being a “dog-friendly” school. Sure, a lot of people here walk their dogs on campus, but rarely are they allowed inside buildings.
One woman in my biology lecture brings in a dog, but it’s a registered service dog.