“Exposed Secrets: The Shocking Consequences of Hiding Pets from Landlords!”
I said I’ve never seen that cat before… how did it get in to my house? He was a stray and he did just show up in my house one day. No litter box, he had a way in and out. He mostly hung out in the enclosed porch.
RIP Gus Chiggins .
We were looking at an apartment and realized they didn’t take pets. At all. The owner really liked us; newly married, very polite. She asked if we had a picture of her. It was 1991, but I had a few wedding pictures and a couple of photos of Sammy in my purse.
She said, “She looks very small. Must be a miniature Siamese.”
I was like, “No, just cat sized.”
She said, “I’m CERTAIN she’s a miniature. I COULD ALLOW a miniature.”
So our lease says, Miniature Siamese, and she didn’t ask us to pay any extra.
And that was what it was like in the olden days, kids!
My landlord found my hamster when getting the apartment master keys that i found on the floor from one of them employees. I found it at night and took the keys. Then first thing in the morning i called them. They wanted the keys asap to where they wanted to enter my apartment when I was at work. They saw the hamster and said nothing as I saved them $1000s from having to change locks.
At one apartment we lived at you could have cats but not dogs. I had a very large black cat. One day I was bringing him home from the vet and carried him in my arms. The property manager saw me and when I went back out to my car to get his carrier and my purse the property manager told me I wasn’t allowed to have dogs. When I told him I didn’t have any dogs he asked about the black dog he just saw me carrying. I laughed and told him that was my cat and he could come see if he wanted. He told me it was alright he believed me. Weeks later the property manager saw me and told him he saw my cat on the balcony one day and it was one of the biggest cats he had ever seen.
Not the “Landlord” but the oldest resident of the trailer park was running the property for them. We have a Chihuahua and Pug. When she met them she said, “Don’t worry about it. I don’t pay it either.” Then we met her 6 chihuahua’s!
I lived in a small basement apartment and rescued a sick, elderly cat. He wasn’t capable of jumping up into the windowsills so I didn’t have to worry about that. I came home one night around 3 am and caught the building supervisor (lived across the hall from me) taking out trash and there was a cat standing in the doorway. We both froze for a moment and then I told him I’d keep quiet about his secret cat if he would let me hide mine during inspections and he agreed.
Now we have a couple of nearly identical cats so they get merged into a single pet on applications. My spouse and I have started collecting letters about our cleanliness as pet owners whenever we move to give to the next landlord and so far it’s worked out well.
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