Archive for the ‘Announcements’ Category

Pet Friendly Rentals Search Tool Updated

Monday, February 1st, 2010

The search tool has been upgraded to fix a problem that was stopping the search tool working on Domain.com.au. To learn how to upgrade the search tool, click here. If you have a question or something didn’t work, please leave a comment or send an email to support@petfriendlyrentals.com.au

Pet Friendly Rentals Search Tool Updated

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

The search tool has been upgraded to be compatible with Firefox 3.5, and it also fixes a problem that was stopping the search tool working on Domain.com.au. To learn how to upgrade the search tool, click here. To upgrade your version of Firefox to 3.5, open Firefox and from the top menu, ...

Potential short term pet accomodation in Brusselton WA

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Jan Newcombe, a very generous and kind hearted soul from Brusselton Western Australia has made her house available to accomodate a dog for a short term stay if needed. This is from Jan in an email. I live in Abbey a suburb of Busselton West Australia. I am an avid dog lover ...

Pet Friendly Rentals Search Tool Updated

Friday, March 6th, 2009

A big thanks to Lauren Katulka who alerted me via email about Domain.com.au changing their rentals section which in turn broke the Pet Friendly Rentals Search Tool. I've just fixed the problem and the upgrade is available now.

How to ensure you’re running the latest version of the Pet Friendly Rentals Search Tool

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

I've had a few emails with people asking how to update the extension so here is a screen cast demonstrating how to do this.

Pet Friendly Rentals Search Tool updated

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

We’ve been working hard to increase the search capabilities of the Pet Friendly Rentals Search Tool and as part of our first major upgrade, it now supports searching on Domain.com.au, as well as Real Estate.com.au. Secondly - by request from many pet owners, you can now use the Pet Friendly Rentals ...

Help the animals suffering in the Victorian bushfires

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

While many lives have been lost and devastated by the bush fires in Victoria, many animals have suffered a similar fate and need your help. The animal welfare organisations have an enormous task on their hands when they are finally able to enter areas ravaged by recent bushfires.  There are thousands ...

Pet Friendly Resumé System Launched

Friday, February 6th, 2009

We know first hand how tough it is to be approved for rentals when you own a pet, so what can you do to improve your chances? Introducing our Pet Resumé System Providing a resumé with your application for each of your pets demonstrates that you're a responsible pet owner and also ...

Landlords urged to drop ‘no pets’ policy

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

ABC News: Landlords urged to drop 'no pets' policy December 4th, 2008 This article on the ABC News website appeared on the 4th of December, generating a huge debate over the renting with pets issue. It's great to see articles such as this getting mainstream media attention as animal surrendering rates still ...

Pet Resume Service coming in Feb 2009

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

With the assistance of the wonderful people (Tim, Tamara and Susie) at the Petcare Information and Advisory Service (PIAS), I'll be developing a Pet Resume system that will help you create the best possible application when applying for rentals. Applying for rentals can be stressful and time consuming and we want ...