thewalrus.ca/pit-bulls-are-not-our-friends/

Let the fighting begin. ;)

PETS

Allowed on a case by case and rental by rental basis

Size and type of pet maybe a dis-qualifier

Number of pets maybe a dis-qualifier - no more than 2 under any circumstances

Tenant must clean up all feces and carry equipment sufficient to clean up feces in common areas or off property.

Tenant MUST include these animals on their Renter Insurance Policy.

If allowed, non-refundable pet deposit of $200 for pets under 40 lbs., and $300 for pets over 40 lbs.

Additional Pet Rent of $50/ pet / month for dogs

Additional Pet Rent of $25/ pet / month for cats

No reptiles, amphibians, fish, or birds.

No cattle, horses, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, ducks, geese, or any other type animal.

FORBIDDEN DOG BREEDS:

·Pitbull

·Rottweiler

·German Shepherd

·“Husky” Alaskan Malamute

·Doberman Pincher

·Chow Chow

·Great Dane

·St. Bernard

·Akita

·Wolf Hybrids

·Staffordshire Terriers

·Presa Canarios

·Or a mix of any of the above

(List compiled from Center for Disease Control on dog breeds involved in dog-bite-related fatalities)

"Or a mix of any of the above"

How will you know?

I'm with Cesar Millan, The Dog Whisperer.

If it looks like a duck and acts like a duck, it's a duck.

I think the reason many big boy land lords have a weight limit (25 lbs or less seems common in my area) is that limit automatically DQ's all of the breeds in David's list. The other requirement of only adult animals cinches it. Every dog on that list will weight more than 25 lbs as a full adult.

Yes, it will also DQ some other "safe" breeds, but it definitely catches the rest who might not be so safe.

As I've always said, and it was brought up in that article, we BREED for everything: for speed, for working skills, for hair and skin, for looks...why do the Pit Bull people insist that they cannot be BRED for attack and fighting skills, but can only be RAISED to be bad? Every other breed out there has certain characteristics: that's how they become a breed in the first place!

Also as stated in the article, the proliferation of the dog throughout the Americas has meant uncontrolled breeding for exactly that: attack and fighting instincts!

W,

Great article! Don't read this at bedtime! 208 DEATHS from pits is craziness. Interesting to see how this has happened and grown in just in the past few years.

Interesting how pitbulls changed the Bronx.

David,

If I may help...

Legally, there is not such thing as a "Non-Refundable Deposit". Any DEPOSIT must be applied and refunded.

I learned this the hard way in court. Res owed a few thousand in rent and damages but the dog did not do any damage so the judge order me to write a check and return the $300 PET DEPOSIT to the guy who owed me thousand$$$.

My lease is clear: Non-Refundable Animal Registration Fee $150 per animal.

With the 2 Minute In Home Visit we meet the animals, gauge their personality, and take a pic for the files.

I also just added NO CHICKENS to the lease. Very popular right now even tho eggs are only 48 cents a dozen at Aldi.

Nothing to see here. Same tired old lack understanding based on the same tired old thoroughly discredited sources of information and so-called statistics, all of which come from people with zero real knowledge of animal biology or behavior. When an article references DBO, and all of these seem to, I immediately know it's garbage.

I especially enjoyed the irony of "I have come to realize that the pit-bull advocacy movement is impervious to reason and evidence." There is not a single veterinary, rescue, shelter or training organization that backs up the information presented in these witch-hunt websites.

I really don't understand the insistence in these discussions that dogs which by all accounts can't be positively identified anyway, have predictable behavior patterns. Even if it was true that bully breeds are likely to behave in a certain way, how does one know when one has encountered such a dog? There is plenty of evidence (there's that word again) demonstrating that visual breed identification is unreliable.

And what if a dog is actually a bully breed but doesn't appear to be one? I know a dog who is a 15 pound fluffer, yet he is 1/4 Staffordshire terrier and 1/4 American bulldog as verified by DNA testing. Should he be banned from apartments and subjected to breed-discriminatory legislation? In many places he would be.

What about mixed breeds? At what point is a dog considered a "pit bull" and therefore to be feared?

Emily, how does one know it has encountered a chocolate lab? Well, it's brown, lives to retrieve, usually very friendly dog. How does one know it has encountered a Dachshund? Usually a short long dog...etc.

Head size, jaw strength, muscle tone...even if the dog is not pure pit, if it has THOSE characteristics it is inherently more dangerous than a fluffer with pit or Rottweiler DNA. It just IS.

We are very clear about the temperament we require of animals. If my husband can't enter the house alone when the owner is not home, we can't accept that animal.

We want the kind of dogs that would lead you to the jewelry for a cookie.

WMH what a brilliant idea!

I accept dogs. But it is a royal pain in the butt to have to coordinate every maintenance issue around them. I am adding your comments to my lease.

Lisa, he makes a big deal out of meeting and engaging with the dog first, and of knowing their name, and plying them with biscuits that he carries with him at all times.