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Please don’t advertise you are a pet friendly rental if you do NOT allow dogs…or only under 20 pounds. Sorry, that is a carpet sample (or a Swiffer), not a dog…thanks. –Dog Mom
This article appears in Feb 9-15, 2017.
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I <3 dogs under 20 lbs.
More tender…
Signing your bitch ‘Dog Mom’ told me everything I needed to know.
It would be amazing to watch a human female to give birth to a dog, a cat, or anything else but a human baby.
Most apartment building don’t allow dogs at all due to damage concerns. The owner of the rental property in question has the right to stipulate their rules. You, on the other hand, can accept them or find other accommodations. It’s that simple.
Pets are lovely. They make great company. But, please people, drop the “dog mom” and “fur baby” crap. It’s beyond silly and makes you sound really dump.
^dumb … not dump. 🙂
@MINIMUS MAXIMUS
They’re not complaining about landlords placing restrictions on dogs. They’re complaining about them listing no-dog apartments on Kijiji as pet-friendly. When you filter for pet-friendly and then discover that more than half refuse dogs, it’s a frustrating waste of time.
FC – if you reread the bitch, the apartment in question isn’t no-dog – it’s no-big-dog (i.e. over 20 pounds). I can understand that because big dogs can cause a lot more damage and don’t fit well in small spaces like typical apartments. They are also a problem in multi-unit buildings. It’s hard for other tenants to get by them in corridors. A big dog could knock down an older person if they jumped up on them so there may be a liability issue. I assume that is the reason for the under 20 pound stipulation. Bottom line is that if you are a renter don’t get a large dog breed. It’s only common sense.
“Please don’t advertise you are a pet friendly rental if you do NOT allow dogs…or only under 20 pounds.”
The point actually revolves around being unable to filter for apartments that are dog OR large dog friendly on Kijiji.
You clearly have a grasp of the challenges of allowing large dogs in buildings and want to talk about them. OP probably does too, given that they want to filter out the few buildings that do allow any size of dog (which do exist, yes.)
On that note, however, a 30lb corgi is not in the same league as a 150lb Rottweiler with behaviour issues, but both are caught by a 20lb rule. Ontario has banned “no pet” clauses since 2006 unless the pet proves to be a nuisance, and their rental market hasn’t imploded.