Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: dogs in community

[Joanie Connors (jvcphd]

I noticed that the Coho website has this article -

Taking the peeves out of provocative pet policies
http://www.cohousing.org/cm/article/pets

and then there's a link to an article with this quote, mentioning a
survey by Sonora Cohousing. If we can access the results of their
survey, we would not need to do it again. If we still want to do one,
I would be glad to write questions.

"as I work on this chapter, I notice that a survey of the pet policies
throughout the cohousing world was recently completed. Fifty-seven
communities responded to Sonora Cohousing’s survey, reporting issues
such as off-leash dogs attacking leashed dogs; pet excrement in common
areas and private yards; cats killing wildlife; barking dogs and
meowing cats; and other pet-related dilemmas. Of course, we tend to
think our pet is angelic, while neighbor pets are silly-looking or
foul-smelling. So the pet issue has never been a particularly easy one
to resolve. In the survey, five communities responded that they allow
no dogs, and two have no cats. Thirty-five communities require a
leash, fence, or documented voice control for dogs, and thirty-one
require bells and owner assurances that cats won’t endanger wildlife."

Chapter Four: Visiting Five Cohousing Communities (Reinventing
Community: Stories from the Walkways of Cohousing, David Wann, editor)
http://www.cohousing.org/node/3932

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Catya Belfer <catya [at] pobox.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Joanie Connors <jvcphd [at] gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Rather than clog up our inboxes, perhaps someone at COHO US would set
>> up a survey? This would be useful for all of us if it included answers
>> to our key questions and links to existing pet policies.
>
> If you have the energy to collect the information, I would be happy to
> post the results on the cohousing.org site!  I might even be convinced
> to run the survey if someone wrote the questions etc :)
>
>     - cat, webmaster
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