Can I terminate my tenant's tenancy early for having an unauthorised pet?

LadyL2013

The thing I find most amazing are those still taking this whole thing seriously!

Pyxis

LadyL2013 wrote: »

The thing I find most amazing are those still taking this whole thing seriously!

It is quite serious.

I am convinced that the tenants are sleepers. You know, undercover spies living as an ordinary British couple until they are activated to do some dastardly deed.

It's really quite scary.

VeryInTheRed

Just read all 29 pages in a oner!

Totally ignored my children the whole time !

I think they were trying to get my attention - vaguely remember hearing "Dad" a few times.

The 'shh' and the 1 minute finger may have been subconsciously used??

Classic thread.

Problems of the elite

lovinituk

I really hope the tenants screw the OP for every penny they have left. If I could work out the location I'd help them do it too!

bouicca21

Czechoslovakian wolf dogs are amazingly rare, the tenants must have gone to an amazing amount of trouble to find even an imaginary one.

elsien

Would imaginary wolf dogs be subject to a virtual Dangerous Dogs Act?

Pixie5740

But tenant what big eyes you have!

All the better for seeing you higgledypiggledy_pop.

Guest101

higgledypiggledy_pop wrote: »

I know what breed it is, she admitted that from the start - it could be a poodle for all I care if it is loose in a shared garden snarling and snapping, but obviously its size and bite strength makes it very dangerous if it does ever get hold of anyone. I could have been a child....!

Hmm, 'could have'.... ye......

TBagpuss

higgledypiggledy_pop wrote: »

Not dangerous?!! The only reason I still have both my arms is that I sensed something was wrong when I stepped out into the garden ! The tenants had left their back door wide open (they were out at the time, how responsible!) and the dog soon came barrelling through the house as soon as it heard me. Luckily it made a lot of noise and I had time to run inside and shut the door behind me before it came up against it snarling and scrabbling. It then went to the window to stare and growl at me and was trying to scrabble in through the sides of the window with single-mindedness for five minutes, I left the room and locked the kitchen because I was so afraid it might manage to get in. Let me remind you that this apartment (that I entered through) is owned by a family who have young children and that this garden is shared, what if they had come home today while my tenants were out and it had been a child in the path of this 'just scary' animal? Would it be OK for it to terrorise them in their own garden and through their windows? This is pure stupidity and recklessness on the part of my tenants, I have no doubt that I would have been bitten if I had not got through the door in time. But at least I took a video of it, snarling its teeth through someone else's window and scratching at the glass and if that is not dangerous behaviour I don't know what is.

Is it not possible (even likely) that the dog is familiar with the people who live there and reacted to your because you are a stranger? My next door neighbours' dogs didn't take long after I moved in to recognise me -they no longer bark at me, but they do bark at visiting strangers and might well run up to investigate them, if we shared a garden.

Also - you now say that he tenant admitted from the start what the dog was - I thought they told you they didn't have a dog and you could find no trace of one when you visited their flat?

higgledypiggledy_pop

TBagpuss wrote: »

Is it not possible (even likely) that the dog is familiar with the people who live there and reacted to your because you are a stranger? My next door neighbours' dogs didn't take long after I moved in to recognise me -they no longer bark at me, but they do bark at visiting strangers and might well run up to investigate them, if we shared a garden.

Also - you now say that he tenant admitted from the start what the dog was - I thought they told you they didn't have a dog and you could find no trace of one when you visited their flat?

She originally claimed that the dog did not really belong to her and had only been staying for a few days, which I knew from the start was not true. It had been hidden away when I visited.

The dog would not know anyone else living there from Adam as the other flat's owners are normally in HK and have not been back since my tenants moved in. It's very lucky that I experienced this and can warn them.