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Old 05-27-2017, 08:03 PM
 
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Yeah, I think the smell is subjective. Personally, I think dogs and dog pee smell worse.
The difference is, the vast majority of indoor dogs are housebroke therefore the house will not smell anything at all like dog urine. If a dog owners house smells like dog it's because that's the odor of the dog, not the dogs urine.

Dont get wrong. I'm a dog person but I'm also a big fan of cats. I never owned a cat or ever wanted to have a cat as a pet, but I always leave food and water out for the homeless family of 4 blonde alley cats and one black cat that live in an empty garage on a neighbor's property. I enjoy watching them catnap on a hot Sumner afternoon in the shade of the big live oaks in the front yard. The way they lounge away the day its easy to imagine a pride of lions doing the very same thing somewhere in Africa.
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Old 05-28-2017, 07:13 AM
 
Location: Foot of the Rockies
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^^That's not exactly a "difference". The vast majority of pet cats are littler box trained as well. Again, it's a case of the few making it bad for everybody.

Last edited by Katarina Witt; 05-28-2017 at 08:35 AM.. Reason: *litter
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Old 05-28-2017, 07:41 AM
 
Location: Denver CO
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Are you actually contacting places and being told that they won't rent to you with cats or are you ruling out listings that don't explicitly state cats are ok without calling them?

The reason I ask is that there is a large management company in my area that I know rents out to pet owners, but when I was just looking on their website, I didn't see anything on there that mentioned pets one way or the other. If you look at their listings on Craigslist, they have dogs Ok and Cats OK checked off, but the same listing on their own website doesn't say that.

If you want their info, let me know and I'll DM you.
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Old 05-28-2017, 08:20 AM
 
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We're focusing on places that say cats are ok but we have tried a few places and were told no cats or pets. We almost had a house the other day but the owner ended up giving the lease to another family because they didn't have pets.

If you could send me the management company info that would be great.
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Old 05-28-2017, 08:54 AM
 
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I've lived in many different areas and I've never had as much trouble finding a place to rent that would accept pets as much as I have looking in the Denver metro area. Are Denverites, or Coloradans, just not pet-lovers in general?
Your thread title is overly defensive. Some home owners don't rent to pet renters because they have animals themselves on the premises, or if it is a SFH because they don't want the house to smell bad when/if they rent or sell to someone else. Some don't want the native wildlife slaughtered by pets. There are lots of reasons why someone would not rent to pets, only one of which is dislike of them.
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Old 05-28-2017, 12:54 PM
 
Location: In The Thin Air
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We're not idiots/*******s. We have our pets trained.
I didn't say you were. Most pet owners are good. It is the ones that don't care that ruin it for everyone else.
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Old 05-28-2017, 04:09 PM
 
Location: 0.83 Atmospheres
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We're not idiots/*******s. We have our pets trained.
I'm sure you do, but in a landlord's market, we don't have to take unnecessary risk.
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Old 05-29-2017, 05:52 PM
 
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Lord no. People seem to feel entitled to take their dogs everywhere. I assume many are renters.
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Old 05-29-2017, 07:28 PM
 
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Denver is very pet friendly, but since it is a landlord's market no one wants to take the risk with cats. Cat urine is truly evil. If it gets into carpets you must rip them out to the subflooring and use Kilz before reflooring. Same with drywall. My uncle had a rental where he pretty much had to re-do the entire floor and some walls to the tune of thousands of dollars. Yes, many cat owners are responsible but it just takes one to ruin a rental.
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Old 05-29-2017, 08:26 PM
 
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Denver is very pet friendly, but since it is a landlord's market no one wants to take the risk with cats.
A couple things wrong with this argument.

1. Pet-friendly means understanding that pets/cats are more than just risk. Pets are part of the family. Pet-friendly people know this. Kids are risk too. People in general are risk.

2. If "no one" wanted to take the risk with cats then there would be no listings that accepted cats. Some do, but as I've discovered, they're not as common.

I understand owners not wanting to take on the extra risk but those that don't are not pet-friendly by definition.
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