'It’s impossible': unable to find affordable, pet-friendly housing, one Calgary woman is living in her truck with her dog. yyc
When Amanda Lease found out a puppy name Krue was going to be given up for adoption, she knew she had to step in. Two and a half years later, they’re still inseparable.
“It’s impossible,” Lease added. “Prices are through the roof. No one wants a pet. The mandatory stipulations they’re asking of tenants are ridiculous.“Either they ghost me or they’re holding impromptu bidding wars, asking tenants, ‘What’s your budget?’ And whoever has the highest budget gets it.”Local advocacy groups say they’re seeing an unprecedented number of people looking to give up their pets — mostly dogs — because they can’t find housing.
“Yesterday, we took 11 calls and pretty much all started with ‘I’m going to have to surrender,'” Parachutes For Pets executive director Melissa David said. “To put it into context, I was actually getting fuel at the gas station yesterday and a father and his young daughter came up to me with their dog in their hands. They had just newly been unhoused and their dog was sick.
Click to share quote on Twitter: "I don't know what I'm going to come do come fall. I really don't. I don't know what everybody else in this city is going to do that's in the same position as I am, with or without a pet."For those in a similar position as Lease, the Calgary Humane Society wants them to know there’s no shame in surrendering an animal.Canmore housing crisis leads to debate over employees living in industrial areas.
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