Tips on convincing landlord to let us adopt a dog?

[MeadowHay]

I've been after a dog for yeaaarsss people on here might have seen me asking stuff before. I've finally won my partner round and we visited a lovely dog today in a local rescue shelter that we both really like. The rescue are happy with our arrangements and say we sound like a great home for the dog. However our tenancy says we are not allowed pets so we need to ask the landlord first and if he does not given written permission the rescue will not allow us to adopt the dog (understandably btw lol don't get me wrong).

Has anyone persuaded a landlord to allow them to do this? Any tips?? We already have two guinea pigs although I'm not sure if he is aware of that or not tbh. Our flat is managed by the letting agents also so we have no direct contact with the landlord but would it be better to ask to speak to him directly on this matter? I was thinking of writing an email to the letting agents and asking if they could forward it on to the landlord because this way I could mention things that I think would show us to be responsible and unlikely to ruin his flat e.g. the dog is older and therefore not super energetic, the rescue say he is fully toilet trained and he has lived in two previous homes (just got very unlucky bless him), he is friendly with other dogs, he is happy to be left alone for a good few hours and loves to curl up and have a good snooze, he's very quiet etc. Also I'm sure it helps that almost all of the furniture is ours and we are not planning to let him into our bedroom so the only room that will be carpeted that he will be allowed in will be the spare room. The other floors are laminate or tiles so easier to clean.

Should I offer an adjunct of money to the deposit? I don't really want to offer to get the carpet in the spare room professionally cleaned because they were filthy when we moved in here and we had to put a lot of time and effort into cleaning them so that seems very unfair when we are definitely going to keep them clean regardless. In fact the flat in general was dirty in a number of places when we moved in and is now much cleaner.

Anywaysss, any tips/success stories? I should say also that we have only been living here for around 6 weeks and we payed our second month rent about a week late because we forgot to set up a standing order which I know is not a great start. However we already provided impeccable references going back many years of renting before we were allowed to secure this flat.

[BLUEsNewSpringWatch]

The walls haven't been painted in God knows how many years, they are covered in marks in all of the rooms, the floors are all scratched to bits with nail varnish stains and the carpets with little holes in etc.

That's the bit I consider drip feeding - it's different to the normal low cleanliness standards of rentals. It's actually already in need of fully painting and replacement flooring.

I do think you have made the best decision in waiting.

Re: LOL - I know plenty of people in their 20s and 30s who use it in messages. However mumsnet in general, is somewhat intolerant of LOL, hun, ((hugs)) and xxxx whispers they are for on netmums not mumsnet

[missbattenburg]

It's the simplest problem actually. It can be solved with an emotional support letter... and a move to the US which is where that website is based. The UK has no such law about emotional support animals.

There, fixed that for you.

[Floralnomad]

Also 18 months too late to help the OP even if she was in the USA .

[missbattenburg]

Ha! Yes. Good spot.