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Bash Ironfist posted:In my apt building, the owner only allows new renters to have a single dog that has to be 25lbs or less, no pits or pit mixes. I think he made the newest renters pay a 1000 dollar pet security too. For their 20lb frenchie. Is he afraid its farts will forever destroy the apartment?
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I'd say it's a reasonable concern.
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Jun 23, 2013 03:45
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The only reason he started allowing dogs at all is because of the crash. If the demand had stayed high for apts here, he wouldn't have let them in. One apt went unrented for like 4'months until he gave in. It's the only reason my mom was able to get a dog, and she's lived in the building for 25 years. Dude is kind of a dick.
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Jun 23, 2013 03:54
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Is this an actual deposit deposit that you can get back if there is no damage or one of those bullshit non-refundable "deposit" things?
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Jun 23, 2013 04:11
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Shifty Pony posted:Is this an actual deposit deposit that you can get back if there is no damage or one of those bullshit non-refundable "deposit" things? I believe you get it back when you move out. Unless he blames some scratches or poo poo on your dog and takes the cleaning/repair cost out of it.
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Jun 23, 2013 04:44
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I paid 20 percent above the normal deposit + an extra $300 per dog to rent this (lovely, small, college kid-level) house. The 300 per dog is non-refundable and if you have pets, they'll find every reason in the world to not give back the normal deposit either because landlords. This neighborhood sucks and my neighbors are weirdo goony hoarders and they suck and my landlord is a bitch and only grudgingly started renting to pet owners (because this house sat empty otherwise) and does things like walk around our yard and leave us passive aggressive notes if she finds half a turd not picked up somewhere. We are buying a house in a year or two and I can not wait because *gently caress* renting.
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Jun 23, 2013 05:08
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Ugh that blows Super. Micromanaging landlords are the worst to rent from. I had one in the past that would send emails over a weed growing in a gravel driveway. I pseudo-lucked out this time and ended up with the polar opposite. They don't do jack poo poo beyond cashing the check. That means maintenance issues take forever to resolve but it also means that I can do pretty much whatever the gently caress I want with the place. I'm putting in a veggie garden !  Sadie watched me through the window today as I cleaned up the area. Once she got over the initial shock that I was outside I swear she piled on the lazy to make me jealous.Sadie was an extra $100 fee for this place. I feel really lovely for those that have dogs though because many apartment complexes and private landlords in the area have huge breed lists that they ban. I mean what is the average Boxer going to do... injure you with excited wiggles?
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Jun 23, 2013 05:23
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Rodent Mortician posted:There's a shelter here that does this - basically their adoption vs. kill rate determines how much funding the county gives them. So rescues can take all the giant black labs, black cats, etc, and all the cute adoptable things have to be approved first. They're usually pretty good about approving things to rescue, but especially cute and adoptable things are kept at the shelter to boost their adoption rate. This I would understand, save for the huge panicked email about a huge desperate need for foster homes for, and I quote, any and all kittens. The last time the shelter did this, our rescue was the only one to respond. So now everyone is a bit pissed, because after a lot of work, all the kittens requested (and some cats) were kept at the shelter instead, which means in a few days there'll be more dropoffs that will be put down, that would have had a kennel to stay in, if the loving shelter hadn't changed their minds when the reps were loving in LINE to pick up the felines. "Yes yes I know we sent a huge email about there being no limits on any animals you could take BUT now we want to keep every single kitten. Sorry you drove so far, ta!"
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Jun 23, 2013 05:25
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When moving in document (photos) everything and even provide a list of issues you notice to the landlord. When moving out take photos. Seriously digital cameras are great.
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Jun 23, 2013 05:27
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Riiseli posted:When moving in document (photos) everything and even provide a list of issues you notice to the landlord. When moving out take photos. Seriously digital cameras are great. The landlords around my undergrad were notorious for stealing deposits. If you cleaned and documented everything, then you would get charged with a few hundred dollars in "painting fees" (they didn't paint), $80 for dust on the windowsills and once they tried to charge me for a broken chair they claimed was missing (we put it in the basement because it was broken). If you called and complained, you could sometimes get some back, but most people didn't bother. When we moved to Mass., we cleaned our apartment when we moved out according to our habits from undergrad, so it was pretty much spotless. The woman who came to check and assess how much deposit we would get back was amazed, said we were awesome, and that the college kids around here usually leave the place trashed, heh. Our current landlords are great. We said we have a dog, they said, "cool, so did the last guy" and that was it. No asking what breed or how big, no extra money. Private landlords that live in other states are the best.
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Jun 23, 2013 13:32
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Kiri koli posted:The woman who came to check and assess how much deposit we would get back was amazed, said we were awesome, and that the college kids around here usually leave the place trashed, heh. Naturally evidence can't guarantee you anything, but at least nowadays one usually has the option of obtaining it quite easily.
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Jun 23, 2013 14:23
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I'm renting through a rental company. It was $800 for all 4 dogs and it's refundable. We'll be doing things like panting and sanding rough edges. When we got the place, blinds were broken and there was a lot of grime. We documented it all. I fully intend to leave this place move-in ready, because I own a house that I rent out and I know what a bitch it is to get a management company to do everything right again. It's been a great little house, the guy's been nice enough to let us rent it. Why shouldn't we take care of it at the end (and get our $2000 worth of deposit back)? Seeing what this place sold for, our rent is very likely his mortgage on it or very near it. Looking around from where I'm sitting, we'll need to do a little touchup paint on the walls where it's chipped here and there (oddly enough, most of it is above head height), clean out the fireplace, paint the scuffs on the baseboards and replace a piece of trim around a door where it was scratched by the movers. Then you know, scrub the place down and clean the carpets, but I don't figure that's too bad. In our contract it says we have to hire an exterminator too, but they're pretty cheap around here so no big deal. We'll move the dogs out to a kennel/hotel room after the movers grab our stuff and we'll go nuts on it.
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Jun 23, 2013 14:47
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:I'm renting through a rental company. It was $800 for all 4 dogs and it's refundable. We'll be doing things like panting and sanding rough edges. When we got the place, blinds were broken and there was a lot of grime. We documented it all. I fully intend to leave this place move-in ready, because I own a house that I rent out and I know what a bitch it is to get a management company to do everything right again. It's been a great little house, the guy's been nice enough to let us rent it. Why shouldn't we take care of it at the end (and get our $2000 worth of deposit back)? Seeing what this place sold for, our rent is very likely his mortgage on it or very near it. As much as I bitch about renting, I do realize what even the cleanest, most well behaved pets do to a house. When I move out, I always have the carpets professionally cleaned, and try to sand down/touch up any doors that have scratches on them. I don't usually paint (except to cover up any obvious scratches) and if the place was freshly painted when I moved in, I wouldn't begrudge a landlord the cost of repainting when I move out. Griff hosed up a bedroom door and scratched a bunch of paint off of it/chewed the corner of it. I sanded the scratched and repainted and I'm pretty sure you can't tell, but if they somehow could, I wouldn't argue the cost of fixing anything they saw wrong with it. I think that's probably the most damage I've ever had a pet do to a place I was renting. What gets me is when they've already got a massive pet deposit, specifically for damage caused by pets, and they act like it doesn't exist and just start deducting anything they want to do from the "real" refundable deposit. I always document everything when I move in, and it seems like every single time I move out I have to whip out photos and written statements from the move-in to get them to back up off my deposit. It's frustrating when you've spent money to have a place cleaned and repaired and they just come in and grunt and start listing reasons not to give back the deposit.
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Jun 23, 2013 14:56
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Superconsndar posted:As much as I bitch about renting, I do realize what even the cleanest, most well behaved pets do to a house. When I move out, I always have the carpets professionally cleaned, and try to sand down/touch up any doors that have scratches on them. I don't usually paint (except to cover up any obvious scratches) and if the place was freshly painted when I moved in, I wouldn't begrudge a landlord the cost of repainting when I move out. Griff hosed up a bedroom door and scratched a bunch of paint off of it/chewed the corner of it. I sanded the scratched and repainted and I'm pretty sure you can't tell, but if they somehow could, I wouldn't argue the cost of fixing anything they saw wrong with it. I think that's probably the most damage I've ever had a pet do to a place I was renting. Which is why I'm thankful I live not only in a military town, but in a town where it's common for a house like ours to have 40+ illegal immigrants living in it secretly and the places are trashed all the time. The guy came and did an inspection (which I'm still baffled about : we pay our rent on time, the yard is spotless, what are you doing dude?) and said it was the cleanest, most well kept house he'd seen in months. I hadn't even scrubbed the microwave out. Maybe the grading curve will work in my favor. I kinda felt sorry for the dude.
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Jun 23, 2013 15:09
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I lucked out like crazy with the house I'm renting. It was a random Craigslist ad for a reasonably priced house with 5 acres of land. My landlord lives on another 5 acres behind the house I'm in. The ad said pets allowed and when I said I had a dog the landlord wistfully asked "do you think your dog would play with my dog? He's lonely." Turns out the landlord has a working border collie whose job is to keep deer and groundhogs off the property but is neurotic and won't get into a car. The poor dog had no dog friends until we moved in with another herding dog. Now both dogs are besties and I don't even know how we lucked out this much. 
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Jun 23, 2013 15:18
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When my husband and I first moved in together, we hired a real estate agent to find us an apartment. She eventually found us a place, but she was infuriating - she kept taking us to visit places that were clearly listed as no pets, and at one point she asked us if we would consider declawing Charlie to make it easier to find an apartment. As if that weren't galling enough, there was some implication that she thought we should get rid of him because he was old anyway. It was...displeasing. Charlie caused significantly less damage to the property than our teenager :p Edit: So as not to double post, I found an Etsy shop that makes really cute realistic plush rabbits, guinea pigs, etc. called Fuzzgiggles. I especially love the little beaver: 
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Jun 23, 2013 15:27
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Superconsndar posted:As much as I bitch about renting, I do realize what even the cleanest, most well behaved pets do to a house. When I move out, I always have the carpets professionally cleaned, and try to sand down/touch up any doors that have scratches on them. I don't usually paint (except to cover up any obvious scratches) and if the place was freshly painted when I moved in, I wouldn't begrudge a landlord the cost of repainting when I move out.
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Jun 23, 2013 16:48
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Carpets in every room of the house except kitchen (even the bathroom) = gross and pretty much normal. I have to vacuum every day, sometimes twice a day if the dogs are rowdy. We've been in this house like six years now though and the only damage is slightly to the carpet and back of front room door where Jess used to scratch at it. It amuses me when people come round and freak out at Dogs Doing Things, like shouting at each other and wrassling. My friend is all  about it.
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Jun 23, 2013 17:14
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Fraction posted:It amuses me when people come round and freak out at Dogs Doing Things, like shouting at each other and wrassling. My friend is all Also I couldn't imagine living anywhere with carpets, especially with the dogs but probably not even without them. I want to be able to wash my floors whenever I feel like it (which should be more often, but that's not the point ok!)
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Jun 23, 2013 17:52
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Rixatrix posted:One of the most common remarks people make about my dogs is "Are you sure they're playing." Yes. I'm sure. Seven dogs. White carpeting. 
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Jun 23, 2013 18:01
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My kitchen has carpeting 
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Jun 23, 2013 18:10
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Fraction posted:Carpets in every room of the house except kitchen (even the bathroom) = gross and pretty much normal. I have to vacuum every day, sometimes twice a day if the dogs are rowdy. We've been in this house like six years now though and the only damage is slightly to the carpet and back of front room door where Jess used to scratch at it. Ugh carpet in a bathroom  I saw that in one house we looked at while searching to buy our home. It baffles me why anyone would do that. 
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Jun 23, 2013 18:15
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Rixatrix posted:One of the most common remarks people make about my dogs is "Are you sure they're playing." Yes. I'm sure. Murphy and Browning love to play bitey-face, and my sister is still a little nervous about it since Murphy has never really played like that with other dogs. It does look pretty ferocious, but they're having a good time and nobody gets hurt 
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Jun 23, 2013 18:28
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Ugh, I hate carpet and the first thing I'm going to do when I buy a house is rip up every inch of it (because haha finding a house without carpet in at least the bedrooms is impossible) and replace it all with tile. I have NO idea why landlords carpet everything, it's gross and absolute hell to keep clean with 3 dogs. I feel like I spend roughly 1/3 of my life vacuuming, spot cleaning, and dealing with fffffucking carpets.
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Jun 23, 2013 18:29
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Superconsndar posted:Ugh, I hate carpet and the first thing I'm going to do when I buy a house is rip up every inch of it (because haha finding a house without carpet in at least the bedrooms is impossible) and replace it all with tile. I have NO idea why landlords carpet everything, it's gross and absolute hell to keep clean with 3 dogs. I feel like I spend roughly 1/3 of my life vacuuming, spot cleaning, and dealing with fffffucking carpets. Move to NC. I have a house to sell you with all wood floors, even in the bedrooms. The only place it's not wood floors is where it's linolieum or concrete. I have carpet on my stairs. My tiny, thin, narrow stairs. It's really, really terrible to clean.
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Jun 23, 2013 18:31
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Carpet is cheap, that's why. It's cheaper to either have it steam cleaned when someone moves out. Or just have it replaced after 10 years or so when it's gotten too gross/worn to be worth cleaning. We had to pay(in installments) to have our carpet removed and have faux wood put down, with tile in the bathrooms.
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Jun 23, 2013 18:49
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I have super nice landlords who didn't ask or care what breed of dogs I have, didn't charge any extra pet fees and the house is terrazzo in every room. They even think Angus' jumping and trying to break people's face with his head out of love behavior is cute.
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Jun 23, 2013 18:49
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Bash Ironfist posted:Carpet is cheap, that's why. It's cheaper to either have it steam cleaned when someone moves out. Or just have it replaced after 10 years or so when it's gotten too gross/worn to be worth cleaning. We had to pay(in installments) to have our carpet removed and have faux wood put down, with tile in the bathrooms. Not only this but it is very, very fast to replace. You can have most places completely recarpeted in a matter of hours (with a day notice) while redoing laminate or hardwood can take days of work by people who have to be scheduled a month in advance. That is pretty important when you have to have a place ready for move in within a few days. Some landlords or property management companies are deliberately obtuse when it comes to the whole idea of "reasonable wear and tear" or expected service life. I've had good luck really, but I've had to ask "when was it last replaced?" in a pointed manner multiple times. Charging even a cleaning fee for ten year old carpet (when any landlord knows you are lucky to get five to seven out of the poo poo-cheap stuff they put down) isn't something I'm going to let fly and I tell them that. I'm debating trying to mail a letter to the previous occupant of my place to let them know that if they were charged a cleaning fee that it didn't actually happen. I'm not sure I want to stir that particular pot though. And some are just penny-pinching assholes who I swear would bill for property taxes too (in addition to rent) if they could get away with it. Turns out my neighbor owns a dog boarding place, which is incredibly highly rated. I think she's relieved that I find the occasional barking and such when i'm out in the yard amusing instead of infuriating.
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Jun 23, 2013 19:40
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Shifty Pony posted:Not only this but it is very, very fast to replace. You can have most places completely recarpeted in a matter of hours (with a day notice) while redoing laminate or hardwood can take days of work by people who have to be scheduled a month in advance. That is pretty important when you have to have a place ready for move in within a few days.
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Jun 23, 2013 19:49
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We have poo brown cheap carpet and it's a nightmare to keep from getting stinky with 3 dogs. Thankfully poo brown doesn't show many stains and a $50 air filter helps with the smell. Still planning on getting them cleaned with a carpet cleaner since I have easy access to one.
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Jun 23, 2013 19:58
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Fraction posted:It amuses me when people come round and freak out at Dogs Doing Things, like shouting at each other and wrassling. My friend is all One of my most  moments at the dog park is when the owners of this pup: first brought her in and she was playing with Tater, all wrasslin'. Her folks went to apologize and put a stop to it when I told them it's okay, Tater loves it and it's what dogs do. They acquiesced but still looked pretty worried. Eight months later and Sophie is half the size of Tater but she still kicks his rear end every time.  Then she humps his face. Another dog park success story 
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Jun 23, 2013 20:18
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Off white carpet everywhere. When it was just my dog it wasn't that big of a deal, but there are people who own 3 dogs next door and I have no idea how they do it. They also recently implemented a breed restriction, which includes: GSDs, Rottweilers, akita, chows, "pit bulls" (included is Staffies, APBTs, Ambullies, etc), shar-pei, Rhodesian Ridgebacks and weirdly enough St. Bernards and Great Danes (even though there's no weight restriction). Thankfully there's only one deposit and that covers cats and dogs for the length of your stay. You can keep any caged animal, birds, or house rabbits without a fee. The place I'm looking at moving to has a restriction I've never seen before, which is only 2 of any kind of animal at one time. So you could have 2 cats, 2 dogs, 2 six foot pythons and 2 ferrets but not ever 3 dogs. Huh.
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Jun 23, 2013 20:32
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My boyfriend and I have thought about renting out our house instead of selling when we will eventually have to move away for work. BF works in tv production, it's VERY hard to find a well-paying job in this city. When his contract is up, we are thinking of moving to Seattle or maybe Portland. We've never rented anything out before, so the thought is terrifying, but we know it would be a great investment instead of selling. I've thought of 'what if we allow pets', and I will admit that I would rather not. But if someone had a sob story of something like "he/she is my best friend, I could never give them away, I got them from a shelter", how could I say no to that? Edit: The people who owned the house before us owned two boston terriers and a pug ( ). So already there are scratch marks in the paint and other areas-laundry room, bedroom, and a lower cabinet (??) If we do rent, there would be no point in fixing those, especially if we allow pets.
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A Sleepy Budgie posted:My boyfriend and I have thought about renting out our house instead of selling when we will eventually have to move away for work. BF works in tv production, it's VERY hard to find a well-paying job in this city. When his contract is up, we are thinking of moving to Seattle or maybe Portland. We've never rented anything out before, so the thought is terrifying, but we know it would be a great investment instead of selling. I've thought of 'what if we allow pets', and I will admit that I would rather not. But if someone had a sob story of something like "he/she is my best friend, I could never give them away, I got them from a shelter", how could I say no to that? They're so cute when they're innocent. (sell the house, it's not a great investment more often than not)
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Jun 23, 2013 22:48
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Eegah posted:One of my most Omg I love shaggy dogs. Do you know what type of dog that puppy is?
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Greycious posted:Ugh carpet in a bathroom Yeah, I have no idea why it's like that. It's gross as gently caress. There's only so much we can do though since we're renting and all. Carpets are horrible to keep clean with pets. Just nasty. I wish we had laminate or wood or just anything else. At least the carpet keeps in the heat slightly with our single glazed windows and no central heating!  I really ought to rent a carpet cleaner and de-dog the carpet. I've scrubbed it many a times before now with commercial cleaning stuff but never noticed a difference. Dark green carpet with white bodied dog/s = URGH. Even a single hair is noticeably visible immediately.
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Jun 23, 2013 23:19
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Shnooks posted:Omg You know, I'm not sure but I want to say a Havanese mix? She's an awesome, social little dog, one of those where I'm always like aww yiss when she shows up.    e: 
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Hey have an audio clip of Barky doing what I affectionately call The Dog Scream. This is what he sounds like when I make fart noises near his face and he makes like he's murdering me. His usual growl is normal, I have no idea what this growl is supposed to be.
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Shnooks posted:Omg I hate to say it, but I'm almost certain that is a terri-poo. I've groomed several before and they all looked like that- and were all so adorable and nice little dogs...I hate to admit it. I'd almost consider hunting down a second hand terri-poo to adopt some day if the whole designer dog fad is still going on in about 10-15 years when I actually want another dog.
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Greycious posted:I hate to say it, but I'm almost certain that is a terri-poo. I've groomed several before and they all looked like that- and were all so adorable and nice little dogs...I hate to admit it. That's ok. It's totally shameful but I love me some doodles  They're just so shaggy. The downside is that they're dumb as rocks and everyone gets them from puppy mills so they're all FUBAR 
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