Renting With Pets
Launch of Dogs Trust Lets with Pets campaign: Dogs Trust, the UK’s largest dog welfare charity, today launched a unique campaign to reduce the number of pets abandoned when owners are forced to move into rented accommodation.
The Lets with Pets campaign aims to encourage landlords and letting agencies to accept pets, offering pet owners the opportunity to keep their beloved pets, while amplifying rental income for struggling buy-to-let landlords.
The campaign website www.letswithpets.org.uk offers downloadable advice booklets and practical tips for landlords and tenants alike.
Earlier this year the charity reported an alarming increase in pet owners forced to downsize or move to rented accommodation. With lettings agencies and private landlords often hesitant to allow pets in their properties, Dogs Trust’s 17 rehoming centres have witnessed a nationwide influx of pets reluctantly handed over by owners forced to downsize.
Below is K9 Magazine’s video review of Lets With Pets:
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Well done Dogst Trust, but how long until theother big animal charities bring out their own versions of this?
Why do they never work together, working separetely only costs more money when they could all concentrate on specific areas that are not duplicated and spread the wealth in these credit crunch times,
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Thanks so much for this Ryan & co – just to let you know, the URL in the text isn’t working at the moment, but the video is great. We’re glad the site is being well received.
@Arthur Clinton – Thank you for your feedback. Although the Lets with Pets webite is a Dogs Trust initiative, the ideas came out of a multi-charity group called PATHWAY. You can read more about that here:
http://www.dogstrust.org.uk/wayswehelp/outreach/hope_project/pathway/
While it’s not always obvious, we do work together in a number of ways. For example, Dogs Trust works with Cats Protection, Women’s Aid and other charities on the Freedom Project, which finds foster homes for pets of families fleeing domestic violence.
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Arthur Clinton Reply:
May 14th, 2009 at 6:22 am
Hi Alex
I meant the duplication projects such as the Dogs Trust stray dogs survey and the RSPCA stray dog survey, why waste time, effort and resources with two organisations collating the same information? If they truly worked together they would share this information?
The Dogs Trust muscled in on the dog wardens association as they used to compile the figures in the past.
Why DEFRA does not ask councils to supply the information directly to it so it can be posted on the DEFRA website I will never know?
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Thanks for letting me know Alex.
Link now fixed.
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While I agree that house lets should allow pets. I have just spent about a year getting in touch with environmental health because the house next door to my son. A man lives with 3 huge dogs and they poo all over the yard never taken walkies, they have to poo that isn’t the problem.
The problem is the owner who has never cleaned up after these dogs, his dad does it about every 3 months. It is not a pretty sight and I am fed up complaining. Finally the man has moved in with his dad and the council are going to clean up the mess and charge the landlord.
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