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We pay $30 a month per cat, which is pretty salty, but there is no deposit. There is no size limit or number limit as far as I know. All animals must have rabies shots and you aren't supposed to have a pregnant pet, weened kittens and puppies are fine. According to the lease, we will have to hire someone to professionally shampoo the carpets before we move out. They don't make you give any proof though, which I thought was odd. I have heard of apartments in this town requiring declawing.

I'm surprised the declaw rule is in place at so many apartments around here. I'm planning on moving in late June early July and just now starting to look around at places I may want to check out. I started out with a fairly short list of what I wanted then added the cats do not have to be declawed.

That declawing rule sounds really cruddy if you ask me. I can understanding wanting the pets living in an apartment to be spayed/neutered because when they are such, they don't have as many accidents or get as riled if a cat comes up to your back door, etc.

When I lived in an apt, I only had 2 cats at the time; the only requirement back then was, give us $200 security deposit PER CAT which was returned to me at move-out time.

But that was it. The security deposits are supposed to cover things like carpet stained or peed up from urine, carpet scratched, etc.

Besides, most cats don't scratch at carpet itself, they prefer your furniture!!!

Odd request.

Unfortunately, some apartment complexes I have lived in had strict requirments on animals too. They have restricted the #/ medical history/ and declaw. I have always found a way to get around it though. My cat Bella has a very compromised immune system so I had the vet write a letter saying that she has had all the recommended (key word!) vaccinations- even though, it was no vaccinations at all because of her sickness...lol. They are not vet techs or veterinarians so I knew they wouldn't know(:guilty . But I had to move somewhere and there was no way I was giving my kitty up.

As for the declaw thing...I had one apartment that required it. I told them that I would not get my cat declawed under any circumstances unless her own health was at risk! I did, however, make a counter offer to them. I told them that I would keep Soft Paws on her at all times to prevent her from scratching the carpet, etc. They accepted this and never followed up on it. I did keep the Soft Paws on her most of the time, when she didn't pull them off after a month or two. I suggest that you bring up an alternative to declawing to the landlords.

Good luck! You shouldn't have to get your kitties declawed if you don't want to!

Originally Posted by sashacat421

I am so myopic when I read things sometimes! I was looking at the Board and I thought, "why is somebody writing about liver in an apartment? what about eating liver???"

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Maybe a more appropriate title would have been "apartment dwellers"
As far as a landlord requiring a cat to be declawed...that is so crazy! Hello! Isn't that what pet rent/pet deposits are for???

Originally Posted by sandra

Sure Stephanie

... I love liver and onions

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You thread hussies will pay for that one!

I had no requirements. Good thing my landlord likes cats. The first time he came up to fix something, Oliver jumped onto his shoulder.

Originally Posted by Rockcat

I had no requirements. Good thing my landlord likes cats. The first time he came up to fix something, Oliver jumped onto his shoulder.

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Oliver sounds like such a socialable loverboy

Originally Posted by ugaimes

Oliver sounds like such a socialable loverboy

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Awwww, thanks! (He is.)

We rent and we have three dogs, 5 cats and 4 kittens. We are allowed as many pets as we want and since declawing is illegal here in NZ that is not an issue.

I would take serious issue with anyone that required I declaw a cat. I would probably do some serious research into regional laws and try to get that clause deleted from ALL leases since I think it is inhumane and cruel.

The other option would be to ask the landlord if he/she would mind having his/her fingers chopped off at the first knuckle! Perhaps they might change their minds.

im lucky because the owner of this place loves cats, her son lives on the first floor and has a cat so it was perfect for us to have a cat

I'd talk to your landlord. Some landlords require it others don't. Mine didn't care b/c I'm not in a furnished apartment. But Limerick's scratching isn't a problem anyway, so I didn't declaw him. If you provide scratching posts, I don't see a problem.

i think the reason they want declawing is to cut down on repairs... if you have a really ambitious kitty, he/she could cause damage greater that the deposit! that said, as long as you pay for any damages the cat does, they shouldn't care where it came from - claws or otherwise!

I think if landlords allow their tenants to have pets, they should not make it policy to be "in charge" of making medical or care decisions about your animal. No one should be told you must declaw or spay your cat in order to live somewhere. To me, these procedures are completely personal and no one else has the right make that decision for my animal. I am having my 6-month old cat spayed next week, but only because I made the decision to have it done.

Neither of the apartments where I previously lived required cats to be declawed...just the usual outrageous pet deposits.

Its not me, its my husband. He said he is going to talk to the leasing office and make an offer: let him have Gizmo & Scooter w/o declawing and he will pay for the carpet if it is damaged. Gizmo & Scooter have NEVER used our furniture, walls, or carpets.

The apartment I live are pet friendly and they didn't even ask about them being nuetered or spayed or about their claws either.....

I was renting a duplex and had 2 dogs and 2 cats. The only thing I had to do was pay a pet deposit. It was only $100 per dog and they said I didn't need to pay for the cats because they don't cause much damage. I didn't have to have the cats declawed, spayed or even show proof of vaccinations. The only requirements the property management company had was that I could not have a german shepard, rottweiller, pit bull or dalmation. The landlord said they can't legally rent to anyone with those breeds of dogs and because their insurance will drop their property insurance if they rent to anyone with those breeds of dogs. That was no big deal to me because my dogs were beagle/terrier mix.

My Apartment requires a Non-refundable $200 deposit for a cat. The good thing about this is.. I only have to pay the deposit once and I can have as many cats as I want, as long as it's not an insane ammount. However, I have not yet paid my deposit for Dinah, and the landlords know that I have a cat, as they have both been in my apartment and seen her.
There are no rules for spaying/neutering, declawing, shots or anything like that. There are ALOT of un-neutered boys around here.. it bugs the crap out of me.