Even if you own a townhouse or unit, you still live closely to other residents within a building which is governed by a Body Corporate. Every unit dweller has the right to live peacefully, undisturbed by noise such as barking.  You need to understand your body corporate or scheme’s animal by-laws if you want to have an animal on the property.  If you disagree about your body corporate committee’s decision not to allow you to have an animal on the property, you can:

• attempt to resolve the issue with them
• try conciliation and then adjudication
• Speak to Richard from Get-My-Pet, he runs a body corporate advocate service

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Disputes about animals in a body corporate

We strongly recommend taking our Online Pet Sitting Course, created with the help of RSPCA Senior Vets