want a dog everyone else has one but council said no to me

[ytsrik1978]

they claim its because a dog might chew wires in my flat there are many people in my building with dogs and cat of which hey got even though they were told they are not allowed is there a way round this for me to have a small dog?
thanks
kirsty

[boxtops]

Probably the other people didn't ask the council, then - have you told them that everyone else has pets?

[Deputy_sherriff]

Do you have a garden? If not, maybe that's why?
He'll use your flat as a toilet and will chew everything in site.

Don't do it. I speak from experience....

[ladybirder]

DS that's rubbish. If you take your dog out regularly to relieve itself and for exercise, and don't leave it alone for hours on end it won't chew everything in sight. If a dog is doing as you say it's the owner's fault, not the dog's.

[ytsrik1978]

council know about other people having pets they claimed they were evicting them and that was in october 2011 they are all still in their flats with their pets
kirsty

[Deputy_sherriff]

No, THAT is absolute rubbish!
A dog needs a garden to run around in. Left in a pokey flat, it will cause havoc!
I had a dog (not mine) for a short space of time and, even though I took it out FIVE times a day, it píssed all over the place, and basically went to the toilet wherever it wanted to. That's my fault how, exactly?

[ladybirder]

kirsty why do you want a dog?

[boxtops]

Not worth risking getting evicted then, kirsty - either forget having a pet, or move to somewhere where pets are allowed.

[ytsrik1978]

as a companion i dont see why all the other residents are allowed but im not im a good clean tenant
kirsty

[pdq1]

Dogs do bark you know! Worse enough when hearing a house neighbours dog but in a flat could cause someone to have a nervous breakdown.

[boxtops]

They're NOT allowed, though - the council just haven't got round to chucking them out yet.

[welshlibranr]

I have to agree with boxtops, if you really want to have a dog, then you need to move somewhere where dogs are allowed, and if you don't have a garden, or at least a yard, then I really would think again, dogs need their own outside space no matter how many times a day you walk them!........

[ladybirder]

If you're not allowed kirsty then it wouldn't be fair to you or your dog. You could possibly either have to give up your home or your dog and that would be a terrible decision to have to make. Could you find time to help out at your local rescue centre and walk the poor dogs in there?

[ladybirder]

DS Left in a pokey flat, it will cause havoc

You've answered your own question. That's why it was your fault.

[ladybirder]

Oops DS, sorry I've misunderstood you. I thought you meant you had left it in a pokey flat.

[lcg]

you can usually only have a dog if you have your own entrance/exit on the ground floor - e.g. flat with patio doors or a house. anything else would not be fair on a dog anyway, as they do need space to run around and have a quick pee at night before bed. that is probably the reason why. if others have dogs/cats, they probably haven't informed the council, and you can actually use your tenancy/be evicted if you do this. be fair and only have a dog if you have your own garden/access to outside, can walk it every day and you are not out all day at work. if you don't - that's cruel to the animal, imho.

[ladybirder]

agree lcg. Although I am retired and had my lovely 16-year-old 3-legged dog in my flat and I don't have a garden. However, he was trained and told me when he wanted to go out, I was at home with him all day and if I went out he came with me. And we went out for 2/3 hours at a time as well as first thing in the morning and last thing at night. He adored me and I adored him and he probably would have been put down if I hadn't taken him on when he was 13 and a new amputee. It worked very well for both of us until he had a heart attack one evening and I stroked his head as he died.

[Deputy_sherriff]

What are you even on about LB?! I don't live in a pokey flat. I live in a house. A fairly large house. With a garden.

Again, how is that my fault?!

Pfft.

[Deputy_sherriff]

LB, you sound like a responsible dog owner who clearly loved and cared for your dog.
I can't help but think the poster wants a dog 'just because'.

[lankeela]

I would not let anyone have a puppy or dog if they lived in rented accommodation without a letter from their landlord agreeing to it. Its one of the first things I ask if people enquire about a puppy. I would not want a puppy of mine to have to be rehomed because the owner was going to be evicted because they weren't supposed to have a dog.

[FredPuli43]

Landlords and their managing employees, are odd sometimes. What happens is they have a rule, which their employees responsible have been ignoring, or been negligent in enforcing. They send down a message that the rule is being broken. The employees responsible then jump to attention and decide that , at least, they'll stop anyone else from breaking it, so the very next person who wants a dog is told they can't have one. That person is bound to ask them, or the employees feel bound to provide a reason to,'Why me?' The reason that they can come but up with is, of course, both on the spur of the moment and fatuous, but the real reason 'It is and always has been against the rules' is embarrassing because it's an admission that they haven't been doing their job properly over quite some time and worse, on repeated occasions, before.

You have been a victim of that, or something very, very close to it.

But having set themselves to enforce, the council won't budge. Your only answer is to feel hard done by; "Why me?"; but comply and either not have a dog or find a landlord who will allow you one.

(My own answer, in a very big block which had that rule and enforced it, was to buy a chihuahua, which I smuggled in and out in a bag, or under my coat. Never got challenged, but had I been and had I been threatened with eviction, the dog could have gone to my mother's. This is not an option open to all LOL)