Times are tough, and though I have hoped that I would be in a good position to buy a house in the near future, it's just not happening, yet I am getting married in just over a year and tensions are starting to run high between me and my parents (since my fiancee and I live with them). It's about time that we moved out, so since we know we cannot afford to get a house we have been looking at apartments, which seem like the only reasonable choice right now.
We are lucky that we don't have any truly huge animals. Our red footed tortoise is the largest, and then we have the russian breeding group (1.3), and some odds and ends like our ball python, uromastyx, beardie, dumpy tree frog, african clawed frog, a couple russians that aren't big enough to join the group yet, not to mention hatchling tanks and the incubator. I have figured out logistically how to fit everyone (plus my fiancee and I) into a 1 bedroom apartment without compromising the amount of space they have now, but I am most concerned with how to get around the fact that most landlords are not open to having reptilian pets. Is it a 'don't ask, don't tell' kind of thing? Most of my enclosures I can easily sneak in under the guise that they are cabinets or storage containers or something, so that is not really a big problem, but I am just curious what some of you may have done in the same position.
What sucks is that outdoor time will become even less abundant. Usually I try to get them out once a week in the summer (due to circumstances many of you are already familiar with), and once we move it will probably be less because we will have to pack the tortoises up and take them to my parents' house in order to let them roam outdoors. We will be spending some time at my parents' house anyway, because of the nature of my work (I am a professional drummer, which means I will need to continue utilizing the music room in the basement a few times a week), and because we hope to keep up the garden in the backyard, so maybe there will be more opportunity than I think, but it's still less than ideal. It's just a necessary evil right now, but it's only temporary.
Just looking for advice from those that have personal experience to share.
We are lucky that we don't have any truly huge animals. Our red footed tortoise is the largest, and then we have the russian breeding group (1.3), and some odds and ends like our ball python, uromastyx, beardie, dumpy tree frog, african clawed frog, a couple russians that aren't big enough to join the group yet, not to mention hatchling tanks and the incubator. I have figured out logistically how to fit everyone (plus my fiancee and I) into a 1 bedroom apartment without compromising the amount of space they have now, but I am most concerned with how to get around the fact that most landlords are not open to having reptilian pets. Is it a 'don't ask, don't tell' kind of thing? Most of my enclosures I can easily sneak in under the guise that they are cabinets or storage containers or something, so that is not really a big problem, but I am just curious what some of you may have done in the same position.
What sucks is that outdoor time will become even less abundant. Usually I try to get them out once a week in the summer (due to circumstances many of you are already familiar with), and once we move it will probably be less because we will have to pack the tortoises up and take them to my parents' house in order to let them roam outdoors. We will be spending some time at my parents' house anyway, because of the nature of my work (I am a professional drummer, which means I will need to continue utilizing the music room in the basement a few times a week), and because we hope to keep up the garden in the backyard, so maybe there will be more opportunity than I think, but it's still less than ideal. It's just a necessary evil right now, but it's only temporary.
Just looking for advice from those that have personal experience to share.