Tobias Gurl thinks his five-year-old collie, Winston, is a pretty ideal roommate: she's quiet, well-trained and indispensable to her owner's well-being.
Gurl, who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and is awaiting an autism screening, says Winston is a service dog who has been trained to help him during panic attacks through trained behaviours. Those could be a well-timed nudge, climbing on top of him like a weighted blanket or circling around him to create space when he gets nervous in crowds.
"One was on the verge of offering us the place, and then they heard about the dogs, and it was a no," Gurl said. The problem, she said, is that there's a fundamental imbalance. Although 52 per cent of Quebec households own a cat or dog, according to a 2021 Leger poll, the SPCA says far fewer landlords are willing to accept them.
Rather than being forced to accept animals, he suggested, landlords should be given incentives. He said allowing them to collect a damage deposit from pet owners — which is currently prohibited — would help, as would reducing backlogs at the province's housing tribunal so problematic tenants can be dealt with more quickly.
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