Posted on 03/11/2014 5:46:47 AM PDT by expat1000
The California family who we reported chose homelessness over abandoning their pet pit bull finally has a happy ending: a dog-friendly apartment. Carol Devia, her husband, Peter, and her adult sons, Leandro and Christoffer, were homeless for months because every apartment they saw within their price range had landlords who were wary of letting a pit bull stay with them.
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Sound decision making.
I’m a landlord and I’d be wary of letting a family with two adult sons in it. And no, we do not accept pit bulls or other large and scary dogs. Mr. M has to meet the animal and assess the situation and occasionally allows them. It’s in the lease. We have had a neighbor bitten by a tenant’s dog. Not a good scenario.
Doctors note declaring the animal a soothing influence on someone in the family who was afflicted with some sort of depression. i.e. a “service dog”. I had a lady the other day tell me that she had gotten her doc to “prescribe” her 2 weiner dogs as theraputic and now she takes them wherever she wants and nobody can deny her access.
Idiots. No place to live, no beds to sleep in once they find a place, but put the dogs first.
I’m glad most of my life is behind me. It’s hard to believe we’re becoming so far removed from what we used to be as a society.
Very well said.
If you look at the link in this article, there was a previous article about this same family. They are a landlord’s nightmare. Good luck to the new landlord. He’ll need it.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/02/family-chooses-homelessness-over-abandoning-pit-bull/
Yeah, I love my dogs too but my child needs a roof over his head.
Obvious nobama voters. They need that pit bull to intimidate their neighbors.
I read the same story, but only viewed one photo. I’m thinking there are four able bodied adults ready to declare themselves helpless because of tenent policies. Two grown men ready to just sit on their duffs and do nothing. As Michelle might say ‘All this for a dog!”. If the older couple wants to sacrafice their quality of life and wait that’s their decision, the sons should lighten the burden and get another place to live.
Give the dog to someone that has space. A big dog like that needs some running room. Not some cramped apartment with two ADULT MANCHILDS.
The oldest is turning 20. Perhaps a better way of wording the article is two teen-age sons.
Agreed. There has to be a limit. And I’m a sucker as it is (I guarantee no-one has put out more money and effort into 1 dog its whole life as we have), but it’s a dog. If it becomes too much a burden or threat, out of here. Difficult, but gone.
Be fair. The oldest is 20. That’s just 2 years removed from legal age. Not shocking for college age. And maybe they can’t get a job either to support themselves, including paying rent.
In a stable family with no financial issues, it makes sense for the young adults to stay with mom and dad but what a poor decision on the part of the parents to prefer the dog over the sons. It’s a dog for crying out loud. And the sons can go stay with friends. I think its called “sofa surfing.” As a parent who has at various times had my adult children in the basement, if I had been homeless he/she would have been told to go get any type of job and live on your own or with friends until dad and I got our stuff together. I certainly would not have slept rough for a dog. OK, I’ll go read the whole story.
I’m a Realtor and have I have a seller that owns a Pit Bull. We couldn’t sell it because the Pits owner would leave the dog at home assuring me that all was well and he wouldn’t attack. He didn’t, but 1/2 of the people that came to see the house, turned around when they saw the Pit.
They took the Pit out of the house and we sold it. Convincing some people that a Pit is safe is like trying to convince them that a pedophile is ok to babysit your kids.
Apartment dog ownership is for teacup varieties like toy poodles, pomeranians, yorkies, et al (or cats).
Yank their teeth.
Problem solved.
I don’t know about other places but in GA you cannot get real estate insurance if there is a pit bull on the property.
I had a dog that lived just shy of 20 years. A lot can change over a period of time.
Who knows what their own situation will be like in 10 or 20 years? By that reasoning, never have a kid or own a pet.
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