Just been reading on the YEP website about a new rule regarding the number of pets that council tennants are allowed to keep . There are very few details , but I am hoping my lad won't have to part with his stick insects .

Does anyone know where I can find out more details ?


Yes I did check it wasn't posted on April 1st .

i'm sure stick insects won't count!!!!!!

its the chavs with 5 bull mastiffs i wold guess they want stopped.

don't tell them. end of

That's what I was hoping . A rule to stop chavs having loads of huge dogs , and old ladies having hundreds of cats . Have found elsewhere that rodents , birds , and fish are exempt .

No mention of lizards , spiders , snakes etc , and more importantly ... stick insects .

By the way . My lad only has one normal stick insect . It is called Bob . The others all look like bramble leaves and are unnamed . A few weeks ago we discovered that a (normal everyday domestic) spider had somehow found its way into the tank and had eaten a fair few . Thankfully it didn't get Bob .

With all the ALMOs merging together they are completing new policies throughout as there were three different policies at one point. With this you are allowed to only keep two pets at the property.

Its very hard to not tell the LCC how many pets you have at your property now, as every LCC has to have a visit on a yearly basis, which are all unannounced.

Any animal that is believed to be dangerous, you are not allowed to keep at the property, EG Bees, venomous snakes. You are not allowed to keep live stock at your property, eg chickens.

More inportantly, if you are in a building that has a communal area (Multi Storey Flat or Low Rise Flat) you are not allowed to keep a animal at all.

Bees aren't dangerous, they won't make much honey if your keeping them indoors though, not unless you have a big expense account at a local florist and have daily deliveries - or can bees make honey out of carpet fluff, and what would it taste like ?

And who first thought it would be a good idea to eat the inside of a bees nest anyway ?

I've often seen a pitbull or a bullmastiff taking it's chav for a walk.

5 of them taking just the 1 for a walk isn't really a working configuration.

Do you think they'll take my cat Batley off me?

I only have the one pet and I don't live in a council flat, but if I ask nicely do you think they might make an exception?

Does keeping a Gimp in a box count?

You should be ok as long as you only have one gimp and either a cat or a dog . If you have a cat AND a dog you will have to choose which one of the three you are going to let go .
Difficult decision . Which one eats the least cake ?

BR

My youngest daughter lives like an animal or at least her room resembles more of a nest. Is there any chance the council will take her away?

I do hope so, although I doubt it. I once asked them to take an old fridge away and they said if I left it outside on the pavement someone would come and collect it. After 3 weeks I had to take it to the tip myself.

I once rang them to take a washing machine away, they booked me in for a collection 3 weeks away so we left it around the back until the day of collection then put it out the front, ten minutes later it had gone so I rang them to thank them (I'm nice like that), they told me that their vans hadn't left the depot yet and if it had gone should they cancel my call.

The scrap fairies round here hoist anything within nanoseconds of you putting it out.

What a fantastic service they provide too. I had a new motorised satellite system installed last year and ended up with the old 1m sized dish which required disposing of. I placed the dish outside the gate at the front of the house and it was gone within an hour

In Spain they have large communal bins in the street which are emptied efficiently every night. If you wish to dispose of any old item that is not allowed to go in the bin then you leave it next to the bin and the Spanish equivalent of the old rag n' bone men collect 2 or 3 times a day. Locally know as bin divers they patrol in various sized vans and provide a valuable recycling service and earn some sort of a living.

I was clearing out my gran's house after she passed away, she had an old 70's style metal stairlift. We'd put it out in the front garden and went out just for 15 mins to borrow a van from a friend in order to take it away, when we got back it had gone.

I've actually seen the scrap fairies. In order to fit in with us humans they take the form of rather rough looking fellows driving old vans. The ones I saw were actually following a house clearance van.

For some reason I didn't think it a good idea to approach them and accuse them of being fairies.

Daily bin collections???? Pfft....fortnightly ones are the way forward

They nicked your gate?
The swine.

They come round every couple of weeks and pressure wash them too.

While in the UK we waste money on each property have its own fleet of multi coloured bins. At the last count I have 5 (One brown one, one green one, (and one with a bit of sh***on) one blue one, one purple one blue box. I mean really!

Folk in the UK moan about having to separate out their recycling & also about having to put their bins out on the street, imagine the uproar if they had to traipse out to a communal bin away from their own homes.
Most folk seem incapable of finding litter bins judging by the amount of waste on the roadside.
Other than third world countries we must be the the most litter strewn nation in the world.

Surely one of the benefits of being a former dictatorship ... Anyone moaning about bin collections and having to use the communal bin at the end of the street under the Generalisimo, would have found themselves being brought back in to line / disappearing very quickly afterwards.

The other legacy is that you have a public service that mean the tourists all go "Bloody 'ell, they're doing the bins here at 3am" or for waking up said tourists in the middle of the night with all the clanging etc.

Think they've got this ruling a little bit wrong TBH. A lot of the animals kept in council properties are cleaner and less dangerous than some of the tenants. In the interests of fairness it should be only two kids allowed as well or that's downright discrimination. I know what I'd rather have next door, Old Mr's Bradys' 4 cats rather than the local chavs 3 devil kids.