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I don’t have any issue with Jo Cooper. But if we are saying there’s no place anywhere in strata for people who can’t or don’t want to live in proximity to animals, then things have seriously skewed out of kilter.
Some people have bought apartments all over Sydney in the firm belief that there would be no animals allowed in the blocks apart from registered assistance animals. Who is going to the barricades for them?
For the record, I bought into my current block on the belief I would be allowed to keep my cats and we sacked the committee, the strata manager and the building manager when they tried to change the rules on us.
Since then, we campaigned long and hard to make this a pet-friendly building which is great- I love meeting other owners’ dogs.
But I would have been just as active if I had bought into the building, having chosen it because I believed it would be pet-free and needed or wanted it to stay that way.
It seems we are now saying that people who don’t want to live near animals can’t live in apartments. That’s a sad day if that’s the case.
But the problem isn’t pet owners or anti-pet residents. It’s a one-size-fits-all law. Maybe the government should allow buildings that have never had pets to designate themselves as such and let that be an end to the arguments for those blocks and let the rest of us get on with our happy, pet-enhanced lives.