The magazine Men’s Health just published a rank of the best cities for presence of dogs, dog parks, shelters, day care and veterinarians. Surprisely, Boston ranked 45th out of 50. Data are not updated, and anyway, even if the number of facilities is not high, the magazine doesn’t evaluate the quality of the US cities’ dog services.
The website Dog Friendly , for example, in its 2006 qualitative analysis of dog friendly cities, ranks Boston as the 4th best city in the US and Canada where to own a dog.