I can kind of understand dogs. If the person is irresponsible, a dog can do a lot of damage to an apartment. But a single cat can't really do any meaningful damage. You're just making your tenants' lives worse for minimal risk.
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If you're a landlord and you don't allow cats, you're a bad person.
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I'm a landlord and I allowed my tenants to have a dog.
The only thing Is if there's any damage they need to pay for it and make sure the carpet is properly washed once they leave the property.
I don't understand why no to cats but I have seen cats damage things before
The only thing Is if there's any damage they need to pay for it and make sure the carpet is properly washed once they leave the property.
I don't understand why no to cats but I have seen cats damage things before
Respectfully disagree - I've seen a couple of cat-owning friends of mine have their apartment walls/furniture destroyed by their pet's claws.
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But, that out of the way, cats can do serious damage OP, I don't agree with the way you framed it. Cat urine and spray can make you have to rip out carpet and replace. Then there's the issue of them clawing the shit out of walls or posts.
Cat claws can destroy some shit and cat urine is some foul smelling stuff.
Cats can destroy a place.
Cats can destroy a place.
That's nonsense.
Worse even than carpeting, it can absolutely ruin woodwork.
Where I live, Landlords cannot ban pets. If they put a no pets provision in the lease, it's automatically void. You can just say "yep no pets", then move Mr. Whiskers in day 2 and they can't do a thing.
There's provisions if the landlord lives in the property and has an allergy and whatnot. But your own apartment? They can't do a thing. You might want to look up the laws where you live.
There's provisions if the landlord lives in the property and has an allergy and whatnot. But your own apartment? They can't do a thing. You might want to look up the laws where you live.
Cat urine and scratching habits can cause property damage. Not to mention it's all fun and games until a couple are let outside/bolt out the door, then you've got about 10 million feral cats around that are an environmental hazard.
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You know you can get cats fixed right. I had outdoor cats my entire life and never once was my neighbourhood under attack from "10 million feral cats".
No, I didn't know that. Thank you for teaching me something new.
Well your hypberolic post about the dangers of one or two housecats getting outside and breeding into a plague of savage felines seemed to imply otherwise.
That would be a lot cooler than people leeching off of others due to the fact that people need housing
Housing is a basic human right
The hyperbole should've been a tip off that I wasn't being entirely serious.
Granted, fixed cats can still do environmental damage. They kill up the local wildlife something fierce.
Can't really say one way or another. Not a landlord, never been able to have pets. Initially I wanted cats, ultimately I just adopted the "fuck it" mentality. Having zero responsibility is pretty dope, not gonna lie.
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I have a cat, started pissing in some rooms (Getting old; luckily usually the bath but the bugger has a catflap) and scratched up the odd carpet (Rather randomly after 10 years). I own my house though.
In the UK we have a deposit though which would cover this surely?
In the UK we have a deposit though which would cover this surely?
Oh yeah no argument there. I had no idea how much damage outdoor housecats to do to local bird populations.
I don't really care for birds to be totally honest, but the numbers were fucking astounding. It's like a billion/year in the US alone.
On topic, we recently moved into a new place (like, yesterday recent) and while the lease mentioned "no pets", they technically can't enforce or do anything about it because the law says otherwise. However, as much as we want a new furry friend, we're not going to make things awkward this fresh into a new rental. See how it goes in a couple months.
Yeah I was gonna say. However that's the ceiling for landlords. They can always be worse, and not allowing cats is extremely shitty.
I think certain people with pets don't recognize the damage they can cause because they're used to it. It doesn't register as damage to them.
I'm not a SUPER huge bird fan myself (minus corvids; they rock), but, I mean, if we're all about protecting the environment, dealing with global warming and all that, we need to do better about feral cat and outdoor cat populations in areas where such cats are not native. Every little bit helps.
A cat once pissed in my uncle's garbage, that mothafucka still smelled like pee years later. The garage and pee became one.
Cats can do plenty of damage.
If their urine gets into the carpet, pads, floor boards or cement or can be hell.
I've met owners that had to destroy the floors or reseal the foundation due to cats. None of this should happen with responsible owners however.
With dogs you can see the damage. With cats you can smell the damage.
I'm a cat owner.
If their urine gets into the carpet, pads, floor boards or cement or can be hell.
I've met owners that had to destroy the floors or reseal the foundation due to cats. None of this should happen with responsible owners however.
With dogs you can see the damage. With cats you can smell the damage.
I'm a cat owner.