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Conference misery::feline

Title:	Meower Power - Where Differing Opinions are Respected
Notice:	purrrrr...
Moderator:	JULIET::CORDES_JA

Created:	Wed Nov 13 1991
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1079
Total number of notes:	28858

554.0. "Need help/information to overturn NO PET rule" by CUPMK::TEMPLE () Fri Jun 18 1993 09:18

    Hello,
    
    You've been very helpful in the past when I had some kitty questions, I
    hope you'll be able to provide me with some information for a problem
    I'm having with the Board of Directors at our condo complex.
    
    It's a real long story, but we've been ordered to find another home for
    our 11 month old kitten.  "The Board" has decided to *suddenly* enforce
    the "No Pet" rule that it has been ignoring in the past.  They claim
    that because of the Big Dig in Boston, there will be a vermin problem
    and pet food, fecal matter, etc. will just be encouraging vermin.
    However, other owners and renters in the complex have brought pets home
    in spite of the rule and it seems really strange that the rule should
    be enforced with us.  We suspect that we are being singled out for
    other reasons.
    
    What I'm looking for at this time, is any information that I can use 
    about cats and disease, vermin, cleanliness, etc.  Any ammunition,
    preferably from the MSPCA or any accredited group, that I can use to
    make my case -- I guess it has to be both pro and con. If there's
    another note here that addresses this topic, please let me know.  
    
    We have no plans to give up our kitten!! 
    
    Thanks for any help you can provide.  If you have any hardcopy material
    that you'd like to send, my mail stop is Charlotte Temple -
    MKO01-2/E12.  I'll keep you posted.
    
    Thanks again,
    Charlotte

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
554.1	Huh? Rats Stealing Cat Food? Stealing Cat Poop?	DRUMS::FEHSKENS	len, Engineering Technical Office	`Fri Jun 18 1993 09:43`	10
	The notion that keeping cats encourages vermin flies in the face of several centuries of historical evidence to the contrary. Have these people ever heard the term "mouser"? Do they know that most farms keep large cat populations to keep themselves vermin free? Do they know that cats, unlike dogs, are as fastidious about their toilet habits as people? len.
554.2		POWDML::MANDILE	I'm inspurational	`Fri Jun 18 1993 11:46`	6
	It would help if the other pet owners in the complex get together with you. Remember, though. You signed a "no pets" contract. (I assume)
554.3	Start a petition!	ISLNDS::FALLON		`Fri Jun 18 1993 11:53`	7
	I think you would have some strength in numbers. If you have to get rid of your pet they ALL have to. Isn't there some kind of rule/law about the fact that they have allowed it to be broken (for however long) and not enforced their own rules, which then makes it null and void? Can anyone figure out what I am thinking about? Seems I have heard about this somewhere. Karen
554.4	We're all alone in this mess	CUPMK::TEMPLE		`Fri Jun 18 1993 12:34`	11
	The other pet owners are not in jeopardy, and are not interested in banding together with us (they don't wan't to rock their own boat) -- "The Board" grandfathered them in, which leads us to believe we are being singled out for some other reason. The Board granted all a waiver (even though the other owners broke the original agreement). I said it was a long story. I think the only thing that might help at this point is to get some supporting documentation that shows that cats do not cause vermin. Does such documentation exist?
554.5		EMASS::SKALTSIS	Deb	`Fri Jun 18 1993 20:06`	4
	Might I suggest that you contact a lawyer? Cono boards tend to back down when they find out that you have decided to seek legal concil. Deb
554.6	outsider ideas	BPSOF::EGYED	Per aspera ad astra	`Mon Jun 21 1993 00:35`	11
	I really have got no idea about american law, but if the others do not want/or can/ help you, and if you suppose you have been sorted out for some other reason, I do not think it will help doing anything, for they'll find another reason then. I would be afraid for my kitten, perhaps would someone hurt him/her! I know it sounds silly, but cannot you go somewhere else? Forgive the 'outsider' Nat