“Exposed Secrets: The Shocking Consequences of Hiding Pets from Landlords!”
We got lucky that our cat potentially saved him money lol. His wife met our cat recently and our cat made sure to get in her good graces too.
(Edit: sp).
Kinda the opposite, but a fun story:
I was touring an apartment and on the screening call they asked if I had any pets. I was honest and said that I was a teacher and I have a guinea pig class pet. The school turns off the heat at night, so he comes home with me each day. No problem with that.
I get there for the tour and everyone in the leasing office is looking at me weirdly, including the person I was meeting with, who was a parent in the classroom next door. She asks me about pets and seems apprehensive, and I tell her it’s just Jigsaw the guinea pig that her son is obsessed with. She gets this moment of realization, cracks up, and excuses herself.
I then hear her in the back room of the office saying “guys! It’s not a pot bellied pig, it’s a GUINEA PIG!” Yeah, whoever did the phone screening only wrote “pig” on the form and they thought I was bringing an animal right off the farm. The leases didn’t specify no farm animals, so they would have accepted me with a farm pig, but alas, I just had my dumb-as-rocks piglet.
When she returned, she tore up the pet paperwork, waived all fees, thanked me for giving the leasing office some excitement, and made me promise to let her know if I ever decided to upgrade to a larger pig variety.
Edit: yes, I know guinea pigs should be in pairs. Jigsaw had a brother at my parents house and my mom and I taught at the same school, so they were together daily. Different ages and couldn’t be in the same cage, but spent most time cage-to-cage. We always had solo pigs growing up, but learned our lesson when I moved out and never had solo pigs after that.
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