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komodoryu
at Mon Feb 4 12:28:41 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by komodoryu ]
Has anyone seen this in California? I heard from a few fellow herpers that a landlord is unable to make you get rid of or evict you for any reptiles or other animals in a cage 24/7. Now, I keep nothing dangerous our the least bit poisonous, I keep ball pythons, 3 corn snakes and some geckos. I've been living here for going on 3 years now with out incident. I've rescued 23 cats out of the complex to help out the landlord since we're pretty overrun. I've kept her up to date on what pets I have, I paid the pet deposite upon moving in. I brought my pets into the office on numorous occasions, let them play with my cats, took a ball python with me to get some sun while I got the mail, ect. She said they were fine since they only cared about signing in dogs for the record. Stupid me, I didnt get that in writing.
So, my toilet breaks, the maintenence guy comes and fixes it. 3 days later I get a letter in the mail that either I get rid of all the animals except the dogs, or they will evict me.
This is my setup. At that point I had locking critter keepers with pins in place holding my reptiles for sale, animal plastic racks holding my own snakes. I have not had an escape from the apartments.
There are many other people in this complex that have cats, reptiles and birds that they dont even make pay the pet deposite, I did pay it with them knowing what animals I was keeping.
I find out the maintenence guy was angry because the landlord made him give up his iguana when he moved in and didnt want me to have reptiles either if he couldnt, this was told to me by another maintenence guy.
Is there anything I can do? Aside from looking for a new place, which I'm already doing. Is it true that they are not allowed to evict for anything in a cage 24/7?
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3.0 normal Ball python
1.0 66% het stripe ball python
2.2 amel corn snakes
0.1 Blood red Hypo
1.1 Bearded dragons
1.1 Leopard gecko
1 phantom blue merle toy australian shepherd
2.1 cats
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 Renting and keeping reptiles - komodoryu, Mon Feb 4 12:28:41 2008
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