Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Pet Policy - Can you share yours?

[Diana E Carroll (dianaecarroll]

On 10/27/2009 12:58 PM, Joanie Connors wrote:

> There is no reason to allow outdoor cats in your bylaws, to not
> prohibit this is to condone negligence and breaking the law (in many
> towns).

This is a "religious" matter, and I'm not going to engage on a flamewar 
on the topic.  I just want to say that you are wrong that there's "no 
reason".  Reasonable people can disagree and any given community has 
reasons for its choices.

Ignoring for a moment your very arguable contention that a community 
choosing not to impose rules on cats amounts to that community 
"condoning negligence" (as if!), I will only point out that for those 
communities that are trying hard to sell homes in difficult times, 
imposing lots of rules on residents does not help!

I have given dozens or maybe even of hundreds of marketing tours, and 
"What is your policy on pets?" is one of the most common questions I 
get.  And the "right" answer is invariably the most liberal possible policy.

- Diana

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