Cat in a leasehold property

ndf9876

zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »

Your neighbour should consider herself lucky....

From "Daily Mail" 8th October, 1 For Mrs. C.’s cat, it was said, got into Mrs. W. ‘s, fiat ate mincepies and fish, got on to a bed, and scratched the bedpost.

Completely off-topic but as a cat lover myself, this had be sobbing with laughter. The cat ate his fish and mince pies, sounds like it knew what was what in that particular case

robynlberry

Thanks so much for everyone's help on this. I have sent an email, but as yet have had no reply (not surprising!).

I also got this from the Leasehold Advisory Service in case someone else is looking for similar information:

'If the lease simply says 'small domestic pets' it will be open to interpretation. In my opinion, a cat is a small domestic animal. What the courts require is that the landlord must expressly include any obligations or restrictions they require the leaseholder to comply with and any ambiguity in the lease will be interpreted in favour of the leaseholder. Thus if the landlord wanted to restrict keeping cats at the property, they should have expressly included such a restriction in the lease.'

Dimey

Hi Robynlberry

How did you get on with this?
Hope your cat is permanently ensconced.

ging84

Management companies are USELESS, they probably have just not checked the lease.
Just write back to them point out that small domestic animals are permitted in the lease.
I doubt there is an issue about a cat being considered small, i've had a lease before where it has been restricted to small caged animals or fish in an aquarium, that is what the lease should say if it wanted only animals smaller than a cat

robatwork

Put a note in her door telling her you will get rid of the cat, but then there would be nothing to stop the snake getting out...

jk0

zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »

For Mrs. C.’s cat, it was said, got into Mrs. W. ‘s fiat.

How did the cat get the keys of the Fiat?