do i have to tell them about my dog???

Tiddlywinks

triggerrabbit wrote: »

Anyone that "loves their dog as much as their children" is in fact weird!!! Animals can be bought and sold legally can humans???

I pity you if you cannot recognise a human's capacity to totally love an animal as part of the family unit.

triggerrabbit

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

I pity you if you cannot recognise a human's capacity to totally love an animal as part of the family unit.

I can understand it. What I am saying is if the dog is a problem in the human element of the family being rehomed then the dog must go as it is the problem

Tiddlywinks

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

I pity you if you cannot recognise a human's capacity to totally love an animal as part of the family unit.

triggerrabbit wrote: »

I can understand it. What I am saying is if the dog is a problem in the human element of the family being rehomed then the dog must go as it is the problem

Can you not understand how that might impact on the rest of the family? Particularly in a scenario where they are already losing their home.

triggerrabbit

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

Can you not understand how that might impact on the rest of the family? Particularly in a scenario where they are already losing their home.

If they have lost or losing their home then losing the dog is probably the least of their worries

paddyrg

If someone is losing a house not through choice, it says there are other things going on in their worlds. Losing a faithful family member at the same time is a horrible idea.

BitterAndTwisted

Triggerrabbit: it doesn't matter how many times you say the same thing, even if it make sense to you. The OP has not asked for advice on how to rehome their much-loved family pet so there's really no need or any point in keeping going on about the same thing over and over again.

Try some empathy if you can find any in that soul of yours. This family are about to lose their home. Imagine how devastatingly painful and worrying that must for for them. To lose a pet at the same time would be totally heart-breaking.

Pennylane

Honesty is always the best policy. I have to say you come over as someone who is prepared to tell lies to get what you want and even have a back-up story prepared. I will now put on my tin hat!!:rotfl:

I speak as someone who has had dogs all my adult life, could not imagine NOT having a dog and know full well how expensive they can be to keep. I am also a fairly new landlord. I advertised my tiny house as No Pets because I know some dogs can be destructive, incontinent, or annoy neighbours. I also advertised it as No Smokers.

A pleasant enough single guy wanted it but said he had a small dog. It had all been decorated throughout, we'd put in all brand new appliances and were about to recarpet some rooms (others were hard floors). He was desperate for somewhere urgently so I agreed that he could have the one small dog but NOT if I put in new carpets. He was happy with that and he's been there nearly a year.

Another thing he told me is that he's a Non Smoker and I had doubts at first but now know for definite that he's smoking in the house. I haven't said anything but I am annoyed that he's not been truthful with me. People soon complain if they think their Landlords are ripping them off but I have gone out of my way to make his home nice for him and allowed him his dog when others might not have done.

Is there nobody in your extended family who can have your dog? We have rehomed dogs ourselves and I can honestly say that as long as they're fed, watered and exercised they don't really care who their owner is. More and more Landlords are not allowing pets and it's not that they're animal haters but that they are very aware that pets can make a mess. We still have one dog but his companion had to be PTS last year and for several months before she died, she was messing and tiddling everywhere. Luckily we were able to confine her to areas with tiles only and had plenty of mops/bleach etc. but imagine if we had been in a carpeted, rented house?

Pennylane

I'd also like to challenge the people on here who are suggesting that others are uncaring and hard-hearted because they are not agreeing with the OP.

Like I said, I am a dog owner (as well as other animals) and we never, ever take on any animal without being fully aware of the responsibilities involved.

I know a lot of people who just see an animal and go "aaahhh, I must have one" and THINK they are animal lovers but they're not at all. The dogs are shut in houses all day and never get exercised.

Likewise there are cat owners who won't get them speyed, don't have them wormed or ever see a vet.

Same with some people who acquire horses. Once the novelty has worn off, the poor animals stand forlornly in fields with little grazing and never get taken out.

BitterAndTwisted

That's all very interesting but the OP has given no indication about whether they're a proper, responsible and caring pet-owner or not and is therefore not pertinent to the discussion at hand. Most normal people, when they are paying a mortgage believe that they will be able to offer a stable home to any pets they acquire and most certainly do not anticipate having to face the tragedy of repossession during their pet's lifetime. Or the lifetimes of their children either.

Losing my home and then having to face the possibility of losing my much-loved pet could prove to be the final straw.

Pennylane

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

That's all very interesting but the OP has given no indication about whether they're a proper, responsible and caring pet-owner or not and is therefore not pertinent to the discussion at hand. Most normal people, when they are paying a mortgage believe that they will be able to offer a stable home to any pets they acquire and most certainly do not anticipate having to face the tragedy of repossession during their pet's lifetime. Or the lifetimes of their children either.

Losing my home and then having to face the possibility of losing my much-loved pet could prove to be the final straw.

Perhaps you'd like to remove your rose-tinted spectacles and think that through again. I am sure the OP is a charming person but nobody is going to come on here and admit to being an irresponsible owner are they? We all see these animal progs where pets are terribly neglected by owners who claim to "love" them. I'm not for a minute suggesting our OP is one of these by the way!

My friend loves dogs but cannot have one until she retires because she says it would be cruel to leave a dog all alone while she works. Yet loads of people think this is OK and wonder why they end up with destructive, bored and grossly overweight dogs.

I would also hazard a guess that for most people applying for a mortgage, the dog doesn't even enter their minds.