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Comment on Judges to rule on whether tenants in England have right to keep a pet

If you’re forced to rent because you can’t get on the housing ladder, you should be allowed to have an animal as a pet. Full stop. That’s the sentence.

If the landlord doesn’t like that it may affect their investment, well… sometimes investments go bad. Might I suggest selling the house and investing in a market that isn’t built around the exploitation of regular people trying to not die on the street.

Just sayin’.

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FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
First off, fuck landlords - they shouldn’t have a say in whether you’re allowed to keep pets.

I do however think that people in your house should have a say with loud animals. There are few things more annoying to me than incessant barking - and even if that usually isn’t the case with a well-trained dog, you usually have little guarantee how it will turn out.

That’s not to say I’m absolutely against dogs. Someone in my house is a dog trainer, and they wanted to get one, and asked the house for permission. I agreed since they have the necessary knowledge - but if it were someone else I probably wouldn’t have agreed, because there isn’t much you can do once they own a loud dog.

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- hiddengoat@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  There's a fucking lot you can do because nuisance animals are not really welcome anywhere.
  
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SomeoneElse@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I completely disagree. I’ll never get a mortgage because I can’t work. That doesn’t mean I can’t look after my cat - I take better care of her than I do myself! I wasn’t ill when I first got her - I had no idea I’d be permanently unable to work within a year of getting her. Should I have lost my pet as well as my health, my job, my future? Not if I could look after her properly, which I do. Here in the UK, the RSPCA help people like me who got a pet and then suffered an unforeseen change in circumstances. They offer heavily reduced vet care and vaccinations because being low income/disabled/elderly/not owning a freaking house doesn’t mean you can’t be a loving, responsible pet owner.

No one can see into the future or know what will befall us. Aren’t an alarming percentage of people just a couple of paycheques away from losing their homes? Should no one get a pet just in case something bad happens in the future? No. That’s ridiculous.

That’s not to say I’m not sensible about it. I really really want a dog, but I know that would stretch my finances too far. I will take in my mums cats when she passes away though - and they we be loved and cared for, despite my failure to own a house.

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- Blake@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I think you misread the comment you’re replying to?
  
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  - SomeoneElse@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Ah, it’s not OPs sentiment, they were summing up the article? My bad.
    
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    Blake@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    No, the comment you’re replying to says “If you’re forced to rent because you can’t get on the housing ladder, you should be allowed to have an animal as a pet. Full stop”
    
    They’re agreeing with you, I think you must have misread should as shouldn’t or something like that. It’s easily done :) I was just a bit confused reading the comment and reply.
    
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