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I'm just here to let off a little steam and maybe provide some important information for folks. My husband and I just drove 50 miles to view a rental that we are dying to get into . It would be our own "forever home". We wanted to retire there. It was absolutely perfect. Then we got to the pet policy. They only accept declawed pets. Now before anyone tells me to educate the landlord or offer to put caps an the cat's claws, let me educate all of you a bit about the multifamily home industry. I worked in that industry for 28 years. You can't really try to "educate the landlord" because the person who is showing you the rental is just a very small cog in a very big machine. The person in charge of the property is also simply another small cog. Most rentals in the United States are owned by large mega corporations, many of them multi-national. These are multi-billion dollar operations whose primary goal in not to provide housing, rather it is to provide a good return to their investors. This is true not just for apartment complexes, these companies control millions of houses as well The leasing agent I was dealing with knew that it was total b.s. and not in the cat's interest to be declawed but she could not do anything to accommodate us. Renters who own cats need to band together and somehow brow beat these companies into ending these policies. We need a network of vets willing to provide paper work lying that the cat is declawed or willing to declare that the cat is too medically frail for surgery. People who do not want to pay pet fees are able to get forms online from doctors and psychologists swearing that their pets are "emotional support animals" and not pets. Why doesn't someone step up to the plate and protect our cats from routine torture and mutilation? My husband and I were so angry that they were not upfront about this policy in their ad. We wasted a whole day and put 100 miles on our car. The leasing agent said we MIGHT be able to get in if we got a vet to declare our cat medically frail. We also offered to pay an enormous non refundable pet deposit. I'm so angry about this, I had to post this somewhere. We have to stop this B.S.