Apartments and pets

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Why are apartments much more lenient when it comes to cats, as opposed to dogs?

Cats dont pee and s**t on carpets =P. Well, trained dogs dont either, but it's just easier as a property manager to cover their butts then have to worry whether or not their tenants dog is trained. So they just say no to them to completely avoid the hassle or charge a larger deposit/monthly fee of some kind.

It was just something I had wondered for years.

Exactly. Dogs are more prone to make messes that the landlord will be responsible for fixing once the tennant is gone. They also come in many sizes and make more noise than cats. Cats are quiet, clean, and less likely to make the landlord have to replace the carpet.

So the hierarchy is:

Cats, birds, bunnies, hamsters, those cobras who spit their venom, and then dogs?

Well if we're talking in terms of apartments, then not exactly. Not all apartments allow cats. But I don't think any of them have rules against caged animals that I am aware of?

My cat pissed in corners and along walls so what's why I kept her outside all the time. I did have a litter box but then she quit using it even though I would clean it and put new litter in it.

I heard of a person who got in trouble with her landlord when he found out that she had a hamster in a cage in her apartment that was "NO Pets allowed."

Not even a hamster was allowed! Her choices were to get rid of the hamster, or leave.

I can't believe that landlords are more concerned with animals having accidents on the rugs, than with people starting fires by smoking in bed, or drug activity.

When I moved to NYC, the apartment came with the job (so naturally, it was occupied by my predecessor). We overlapped for about 3 or 4 weeks, so I go to see the place before she left.

She had a German shepherd, a Shetland collie, a cat, some variety of bird and had previously had a rabbit. The apartment was unbelievable. (And yet our "foreign service directives" only allowed for one pet, with permission of the Admin Manager).

The next day I went into our admin manager with the list of things that I thought needed to be done before I could move in. He then pulled out an even longer list and said, "we haven't spent a dime on that apartment waiting for her to be posted out. This is our list."

I wound up with entirely new furniture, carpets, paint job, etc. etc.

It's understandable why they won't take pets in the neighbourhood that I live in. It's mostly seniours who live there and they're not the most responsible when it comes to their pets. There are also many cars and ambulances that drive by my area, so you can imagine what it would be like to hear 500 dogs barking at once.

Every single place for rent that get's listed in my area is "no pets allowed", except for that rare gem that gets listed every once in a while that will say "pets negotiable". I just know there are hundreds of people applying for that one place though . I'd like to take my dog if I move out but he's a bit too noisy and disobedient.

Hm, you should check with the local law. Over here in Belgium a lot of apartment owners put "pets not allowed" in the contract you have to sign. However, they don't have any legal ground to stand on. Keeping a pet falls under the privacy laws or the right to have a private life. When taken to court it's more or less a guaranteed win and it doesn't matter if you signed the contract or not. Sadly not a lot of people know this. I'm not sure about other countries though.

I think that's what I will do. My complex doesn't allow them, though.