RDRS-DT-01 · Defined Term 25

Chronic Stressor

A persistent condition in or around the home causing ongoing distress to a dog or its neighbours, which the standard requires to be mitigated.

Definition

A persistent condition in or around the home causing ongoing distress to a dog or its neighbours, which the standard requires to be mitigated.

Part of the Roch Dog Residence Standard (RDRS-01) · Published by Roch Dog

A persistent condition in or around the home that causes ongoing distress or harm to a dog or its neighbours, such as sustained noise transmission between homes, or the absence of any relief area forcing a dog to soil indoors.

The standard requires such stressors to be mitigated as far as the building reasonably allows.

Roch Interpretation

A dog kept on edge by constant noise, or forced to soil indoors for lack of any relief area, is not living well. Buildings do what they reasonably can to reduce these.

Examples

Compliant Reasonable acoustic separation reduces noise between homes, so a dog is not exposed to constant disturbance.
Not compliant A dog soils indoors daily because there is no relief area, and nothing is done to address it.
Published by Roch Dog Inc RDRS-DT-01 · Last updated 2026-05-23