Reply #13: This wouldn't be such a problem if rental landlords were more lenient about pets.

[Lyric]

It's damned near impossible to find a rental that allows pets these days. I am in this situation myself. Our mobile home has been seriously damaged, and although we're making do for now, we HAVE to move at the end of this summer. We have a beautiful, well-trained Golden Retriever, though, and he's been part of our family since he was nine weeks old. He just turned four years old on April 18th.

We've been searching and searching, but we can't find apartment that will allow us to have our dog. Even the "pet friendly" rentals have weight limits for dogs, and Toby weighs 90-odd pounds.

We are in a near panic about what the hell we're going to do when the time comes. I think I'll die of the pain if I have to take him to a shelter. We didn't expect the damage to our home due to weather in the past year, but there's nothing we can do. It's too expensive to fix on a trailer this old (70's model) and it's a hazard for our child. We HAVE to move. There's no way we can hide a dog of this size, so we are currently scrambling to try and find a landlord who is at least willing to consider an exception to the No Dogs Over 50 lbs policy.

In the meantime, I am one enormous ball of anxiety over it.

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