We have bought an apartment in Port Macquarie and hoped to move in along with our
faithful family dog of many years. Clean, quiet, healthy and friendly with a vets letter
confirming this. Now blocked by anal owners of other units. We look like heading for
mediation then arbitration if that doesn't work. Any clues please from those that have
faced a similar situation.
It is your appartement tell them to stick it up their anal bit!
. If they give you shiiiiit play hard rock flat out all day b4 10-00pm swear a lot and be an arsse hole![}:)]
Buy a white stick and go around pretending you are blind and tell the ****s that it is a guide dog.
Telle them your missus is deff and it is an alarm dog to tell her when the door bell is ringing or the gaz is leaking....
even though you own the unit you don't own the complex . Therefore you have to conform to BC rules . Sucks but thats how it is and thats why living in a strata environment sucks the wang bigtime .
Next time they mention it say "what dog? I don't have a dog. I only have my mother in law staying with us for a while. what are you implying?"
Family member vs apartment?
Family wins.
Try bribing the other residents... Hello my new dear neighbour, what will it take for you to be happy with my 4 legged son living with me?
Dogs and apartments don't mix. Dogs need to exercise and space to move. They need somewhere outside to go for a piss and defacation. Dogs who are in enclosed spaces when their bosses are out start barking. They make the place stink of dog too.
If the strata made an exception for one person, other people would want the same exemption to apply for them too and thats fair enough. Then before you knew it some idiot would have half a dozen dogs in their flat and make the building uninhabitable for the rest of the residents.
I live in a flat, and its a pain as it limits your freedom. However the rules are necessary for a bunch of people to live together reasonably peacefully who have little in common besides they live in the same building. The trade off for me its close to where I work and a major train station. Plus its been a good investment since we bought it.
Whats the solution here? I don't know of any besides moving or getting rid of the dog. Pretty sad situation either way. I'd love to have a dog but if I did I'd have to move to my house which is out of the city and would be a long commute to work. Not having a dog is one of the prices I pay to live in a unit.
Let your flat to some cashed up bogans! after 2 weeks the other tennants/owner will beg you to comeback with your dog![}:)]
Suspect you will have little chance of changing the BC rules. Perhaps Flysurfers "Hello my new dear neighbour, what will it take for you to be happy with my 4 legged son living with me?" might work. Possibly followed up with, "I am going to get him into therapy, he thinks he's a dog" 
Failing that, there might be some ideas here... www.27bslash6.com/strata.html
I have a similar but different problem, my girl and I would like to breed some rare breed chickens. The only problem is that requires a rooster. It seems the only way to make sure a rooster doesn't crow on Sunday morning is to eat him on Saturday night 
Moby and Pweedas. The dog already lives in an apartment elsewhere and she is no
problem. Clean quiet and well behaved. She is exercised regularly.The difference is the
type of people that live there. They like her and see her as an asset, burglar deterrent
etc. There are no queues of people trying to move 6 dogs in. Just a friendly
neighourhood apartment block. The strata doesn't prohibit dogs and states that animals
cannot be excluded without a good reason. We will take it further.
It's unfortunate that BC committees generally attract retirees with too much free time and who lack normal hobbies to keep them occupied, and the BC becomes the hobby, which often spells bad news for everyone not retired and living in the strata.
The trick is for the committee to find a balance that suits most of the occupants, without turning it into a retirement village, but with a committee being made up of 65 - 85 yo's a retirement village seems to be how it ends up
i hope you get to live there with your dog
Dont give up.
Go around and door knock your new neighbours.Bring your wife or your mum and the dog.
Intrduce yourselves as the new owners of number x. Wish them a merry xmas and chat for a while. Keep chatting! When it seems right and the ice has really been broken then give a card and unwrapped box of chocalates. Clearly they have not got a gift for you.This will make them feel a bit awkward. Now they owe you. Offer them salvation in the way of a signature for your letter saying that they dont object to you and your family moving in. Thank them sincerely either way.
Repeat.
If that fails then you don't want too surround yourself with folks like that. Move on.
Dog owners are mental. They seem to be completely oblivious to the constant barking, pissing and pooing their neighbours have to put up with.
How many times I've heard ' but my dogs well behaved' yeah right...
They are not anal you're disrespectful
We love dogs and have a Ridgeback X that lives with us on a quarter acre block. She usually gets walked twice a day.
Anything short of the above situation we believe is unfair to the animal.
We have lived in medium density units and just do not believe having cats or dogs on site is fair to the animals or the neighbours.
Next door to us, unfortuneately, are six units on the same size block as us, at which the body corp and owners allow pets. There are 4 dogs there and they are locked up all day and they howl all day and there is nothing we can do about it.
I thought it was, and believe it should be a by law of all councils to disallow the keeping of pets such as dogs or cats at medium and high density residential sites.
Dog owners are oblivous such as Ado and French are diicks.
If you people were such dog lovers you wouldn't leave them at home in a tiny appartment 'yapping' for 10 hours a day.
vadgina, I think you wanted to say "french have big dicks and my bum still hurts"....
