http://www.dogdiaries.com.au/pet-care-advice/renting-with-dogs/ Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:52:18 +1000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.dogdiaries.com.au/pet-care-advice/renting-with-dogs/comment-page-2/#comment-57325 Conina Howard Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:35:39 +0000 http://www.dogdiaries.com.au/?p=5716#comment-57325 Renting is difficult enough without the added stress of our pets not being welcomed! In the past I have rented successfully with a huge OESD. It is imperitive that you have references for the dog and keep them for future rentals, Keep the dog very clean at all times and make sure that there is no doggy smell in the house. Exercising the dog EVERY DAY keeps a calm and relaxed pet that will not destroy fences gardens and the like out of bordem and frustration. If your pet can shake hands it is also a cute trick as non -doggy people will relate to the dog doing a human action and will see it as a little person. The human mind is strange, but let me tell you, it works!!! Good luck to all renters. Renting is difficult enough without the added stress of our pets not being welcomed! In the past I have rented successfully with a huge OESD. It is imperitive that you have references for the dog and keep them for future rentals, Keep the dog very clean at all times and make sure that there is no doggy smell in the house. Exercising the dog EVERY DAY keeps a calm and relaxed pet that will not destroy fences gardens and the like out of bordem and frustration. If your pet can shake hands it is also a cute trick as non -doggy people will relate to the dog doing a human action and will see it as a little person. The human mind is strange, but let me tell you, it works!!! Good luck to all renters.

]]> http://www.dogdiaries.com.au/pet-care-advice/renting-with-dogs/comment-page-1/#comment-56000 Ruth Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:14:18 +0000 http://www.dogdiaries.com.au/?p=5716#comment-56000 I found it extremely difficult to find a rental property that would allow me to have my 2 small aged dogs, even tho I had a reference from a real estate agent stating how well behaved my dogs were and how very little if any impact that they had on my property. It appears that some pet owners (those that do not take an active interest in their pets so that they become well behaved and act on command) have made a huge impact on the rental market and made it increasingly difficult for the responsible pet owners to obtain rental properties. For me personally, it meant that I had to either compromise my own safety in moving to a suburb where my own safety could be at risk or pay a premium rental price for some where to live. As a result i have chosen the latter, I actually offered an amount higher than what was being asked per week and agreed to sign a separate rental agreement for my 2 dogs to then be told that on top of my premium rental per week I was also responsible for all water rates and charges. this has now put me in a place that I have to question my financial stability. I am on a government pension and entitled to a discount for water and other utilities but only if they are registered in my name, something that is not, I am told, an option. Why is it then, that because some of us, thru no choice of our own, live on our own are penalised for having a companion in a pet? I found it extremely difficult to find a rental property that would allow me to have my 2 small aged dogs, even tho I had a reference from a real estate agent stating how well behaved my dogs were and how very little if any impact that they had on my property.
It appears that some pet owners (those that do not take an active interest in their pets so that they become well behaved and act on command) have made a huge impact on the rental market and made it increasingly difficult for the responsible pet owners to obtain rental properties.
For me personally, it meant that I had to either compromise my own safety in moving to a suburb where my own safety could be at risk or pay a premium rental price for some where to live. As a result i have chosen the latter, I actually offered an amount higher than what was being asked per week and agreed to sign a separate rental agreement for my 2 dogs to then be told that on top of my premium rental per week I was also responsible for all water rates and charges. this has now put me in a place that I have to question my financial stability. I am on a government pension and entitled to a discount for water and other utilities but only if they are registered in my name, something that is not, I am told, an option.
Why is it then, that because some of us, thru no choice of our own, live on our own are penalised for having a companion in a pet?

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