Recently our strata building had a (false) fire alarm at 5am.
We all piled out onto the street in our pyjamas clutching our nearest and dearest. I never knew so many of my neighbours had pets!
The building (in VIC) doesn’t allow pets unless there’s a medical requirement.
Some of us were chatting and several holding dogs swapped tips about pretending medical conditions to GPs that warrant a pet. Personally I support people having well-cared-for pets that cause no problems but it did make me cynical about the assessment of medical requirements.
In the case of a pet owner’s neighbour being allergic to pets or debilitated by fear of them, it seems unfair that those difficulties can be trumped by a faked medical condition. Pet ownership and its impact on others needs to be taken more seriously.