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Pet owners may be seriously considering cloning their pets - or at least buying ones that look exactly like the ones they have - considering that some city landlords challenge tenants who get new pets to replace ones that die under a 1982 law. The City Council is holding hearings about the so-called "no pet clause". Queens Councilwoman Melinda Katz is looking to introduce a bill to remove the clause, saying, "I think they [the courts] are flawed in their interpretation. In the end, the bill is not about pets but its about people who are the ones who have the pets." In other words, as Newsday says, the landlords have the leases with the tenants, not the pets. That's true, when was the last time Thompson paid the rent? Thompson is such a freeloader, he pays Gothamist back in being so cute and in having such a delicate constitution that requires ridiculous amounts of medical attention and duck and pea cat food. Anyway, Gothamist wonders why pet food companies aren't doing more to help lobby on the behalf of apartment dwelling pet owners. We'd like to see the Meow Mix Mobile circling City Hall.
Gothamist previously on the no-pet clause.
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thompson is always saying he's going to kick in for the rent, but then when the 1st of the month comes around, he's always like "yo, i'm a little short this month" or "yo, i sent it to you- you didn't get the check?" that dude is rotten through and through.
The Times also has an article about the law, which is more complicated than I realized (if you smuggled in a pet and no one took action against you during the first three months, you could keep it), but more interesting was that the civilian leading the effort to change the law is Mary Max, the wife of artist Peter Max.
And I'm not surprised Thompson acts like that - you guys let him get away with everything.
Thompson sure acts like he owns the place.
The all-day-barking-dog thing aside, I say that I've met a lot of people who make worse tenants than most pets.
Why are the neoconservs always trying to prevent people from enjoying life? Thank God the Conservs are self-destructing in the White House.
I didn't see anything about conservatives trying to prevent people from having pets. where did you read that?
did anyone else see "meow mix" mobile and imagine a bunch of LES lesbians in a big hippy freakout van? b/c that's the first thing that came to my mind.
Jake - I thought EXACTLY the same thing. In fact, I clicked on the link just to make sure it wasn't a roving troupe of lesbians dancing in the back of a truck. My imagination was, sadly, much sexier than the reality.
What ever happened with the Stuyvesant Town narc-out? Did meow mix make good on paying people who didn't narc out their neighbors?
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