Shiva OM Dear Friends,

This is truly and out of the box question. Let me try and do justice to this question by my humble answer. To the best of my knowledge and experience I have neither ever read or come across any rule which disbars one from having a Dog as a pet from the Vastu Shastra point of view. Vastu Shastra has given various locations for the placements of various animals in your premise. But in no way has it ever considered Dogs to be harmful or troublesome or inauspicious in any manner. In fact it has suggested that the kennel for Dogs should be ideally made as a first preference in the Southeast direction.

Astrologically speaking, Dogs do benefit humans in many ways. They safeguard humans from the wrath of many evil planets. So to the best of my limited wisdom I think it would be foolhardy to not have Dogs which are popularly known to be “Man’s best friend”, just because of some ill gotten advice from some misinformed person.

I earnestly hope that this humble Blog has been both meaningful and useful to you.

Shivam Kalyanam.
Prof. Dr. Manoj Kalantri. Ph.D,D.Sc,D.Lit.
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