An indispensable 40-page guide to understanding your right to pets in rental housing, both public and private.

This booklet explains the federal laws that protect your right to keep pets in all federally-assisted housing, and if you are disabled, your right to an assistive animal in all types of rental housing.

Chapters include "Disabilities and Assisted Housing," "Disabilities and Privately-Owned Housing," "Pets and Assisted Housing," and "Pets and Privately Owned Housing." The booklet also addresses:

• Responsible pet guardianship
• How landlords can adopt a "pets welcome" policy
• Model rental guidelines

Download Best Friends for Life: Humane Housing for Animals and People

Pdf format, 5.6MB, 56Pages.

Best Friends for Life Official Download Webpage

The Doris Day Animal League first published Best Friends for Life in 1996. This first edition only addressed the rights of people with disabilities to care for pets in “no pet” housing. Today, this publication includes information for nondisabled persons living in both assisted and privately-owned housing. With the partnership of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MSPCA), this revised edition also incorporates the MSPCA’s Pets in People Places, an excellent resource to help residents and housing managers craft a “pets welcome” policy that benefits both the animals and their guardians.

Visit DORIS DAY ANIMAL LEAGUE Official Website

Founded by Doris Day in 1987, the Doris Day Animal League is a nonprofit, nationwide citizens lobbying organization formed to focus public attention on the needless suffering of many animals in commercial testing facilities, the millions of cats and dogs killed in our shelter system each year simply because there are not enough good homes, and other important issues affecting animals. The Doris Day Animal League knows that by enforcing existing laws and passing tough new ones, we can end the suffering of millions of animals. The League provides people with the names of their elected officials and summaries of important animal protection issues—and encourages members and others to file petitions expressing their concerns with their elected officials.

The Doris Day Animal League works at both the federal and state government levels to pass new laws to reduce the suffering of helpless animals in laboratories, on farms, in the wild and anywhere animals are mistreated. We also travel to state and local legislatures to draft legislation, organize support and lobby for laws to stop needless animal suffering.

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