Age discrimination (for dogs)
After months of searching for a dog friendly place I finally found one only to be rejected at the last minute because we will have a puppy and not a dog. I had no idea dog friendly and puppy friendly were two different things. I wrote back saying the puppy would be in secure puppy area until fully house trained, that someone would be home with the dog all day and that I was willing to pay an bigger deposit if necessary. Waiting to hear back now.
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I'm in Dallas
Part of it could be they don't people breeding their adult dogs or puppies making noises (either barking or running around) Will you be sharing walls or ceilings w/ any other tenant?
I hope your search for good apartment ends soon. Sucks they don't have full information on their dog policy not everyone knows puppies are not wanted..
I say this because for the first few months I had Toki starting at 8 weeks old, I was around him almost 24/7. That guy... he is the most independent dog ever. not exaggerating. I think if I left the house for a few days, leaving food and water and a way for him to use the bathroom, he would have have a blast. I think independence and clinginess is a personality trait, something that is genetically predisposed. How you handle it though....
If a puppy is from a line known to have separation anxiety, there's prevention of separation anxiety prior to any treatment of separation anxiety. Patricia McConnell's book basically boils down to teaching velcro dog to handle separation by desensitizing triggers, and find a way to leave the dog during the absences where she's not anxious, and that usually involves finding a dog sitter or daycare.
I have not read anywhere that if the pup has predisposition, staying with it too long will trigger the issue to worsen. Please let me know if you can dig up the reference so I can read up on it. Thx,
I've had to deal with so much BS like this from property management companies (weird rules, mixed messages) that I resolved next time I rent, it's going to be from the actual owner, not a property management company.
Sorry about the rant... These rules are outrageous sometimes. Off my soapbox now... Hope the apartment hunt goes well. Try and find a private owner to rent from. That was always the best bet around Baton Rouge. They are always a bit more willing to work with pets.
I haven't had to look for an apartment with a pet yet, and I kinda dread when someday I will have to. Of course, at this point my only pet is a semi-elderly cat, but... I do plan on getting another dog someday, and probably will eventually have another cat, too.
Never heard of an age discrimination here. That is strange to me. How does that even work? What are they thinking? (other than adopting... I don't see how that rule makes any sense.) Toronto is a pretty dog friendly city. We also had to negotiate with our landlord to bring Hana home, but she never visits, so I don't think it would've been a problem even if we wanted a bigger dog, say, Akita. Private landlords are usually more willing to negotiate.
Good luck!!
Also offered to pay triple the deposit (yes, it is that hard to find an apartment in Calgary right now) and am now waiting for a response.
Re: separation anxiety--I've never had a dog that had it, and I've always been with my puppies/young dogs all the time, so...I'm pretty dubious that it cause it. I get the genetic disposition to it, thing, but I find it hard to believe that spending more time with your dog is going to trigger it, honestly.
If I had to pinpoint what triggered Zim's separation anxiety, I would actually point to crating him while we were away. We didn't know he had crate anxiety when we brought him home, so we crated him for his safety. It made us leaving home a really awful thing for him, I think, and I wish I'd known then that he just wasn't a dog that could be crated. By contrast, he's always been fine whenever we leave him alone in the car--he just curls up and sleeps, no walk, no thundershirt, no puzzle toys, all of which are requirements when leaving him home alone--and he was never crated in the car. We used harness restraints instead.
When I went back to my parents' place, it took awhile to get used to the fact Albertans don't like dogs in airports, hardware stores, sport stores, outdoors stores, banks et cetera; places where I could actually enter with pets while living on Vancouver Island and on the mainland coastline. The cultures between the two provinces are dramatically different.
Regarding separation anxiety, I didn't say that the person should be away from the puppy all the time for hours on ends; however the ones I know are from scenarios where the person never leaves the house, usually because they are unemployed, on vacation or have at-home career, and always take the dog with him or her everywhere into stores and restaurants are the ones with the worst separation anxiety. Doing errands without the dog such as going out to do groceries, going to the local pizza parlour, letting someone else babysit the dog or puppy et cetera helps. However, the ones with worst case of separation anxieties are also are usually herding breeds and British gundogs. So, maybe there is a genetic deposition.
Just that landlords usually find a whining adult dog more annoying than a puppy.