Archive for the ‘Announcements’ Category

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 ...

Pet Friendly Rentals featured in Your Pet Magazine

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

The Spring/Summer edition of Your Pet Magazine is now available and features an article about the struggles renting pet owners are facing and how Pet Friendly Rentals is working hard to make a difference. As we do not have a marketing or advertising budget, we rely heavily on word of mouth ...

Pet Friendly Rentals on Channel 9’s Extra program

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

Pet Friendly Rentals appeared on Channel 9's Extra program on the 6th of October and I finally received a copy of the footage so anyone who missed it can see the segment below. A big thank you to the Channel 9 Extra team who did such a fantastic job putting the ...

It’s time for pets to come first!

Monday, October 6th, 2008

Hi everyone, This blog post is likely to be one of the most important I have ever written. It's about making a stand against something that no pet owner should ever have to experience: surrendering their animal because they can't find a pet friendly rental property in which to live. As many ...

Firefox 2 users, please upgrade to Firefox 3

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

The Pet Friendly Rentals extension was released on June 2nd 2008 and at this time, Firefox 2 was the latest version of the browser available. Since then, Firefox version 3 has been released which contains many important performance and security enhancements so I strongly recommend you upgrade as soon as possible. How ...

New version of extension available!

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Well it's been a while between drinks as they say but the Pet Friendly Rentals Firefox extension gets it's first batch of improvements today as I upgraded some of the software components it relies upon, as well as fixing a few bugs that stopped the watermark image displaying on the ...

New website and services launched!

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

After months of research and development, Pet Friendly Rentals has finally found a quick and easy solution to the time intensive process of trawling through online rental listings in the hope of finding those that allow pets. The tool that we’ve developed (technically known as a ...

The Animal Welfare League show their support!

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Our friends at the Animal Welfare League based on the Gold Coast are so thrilled with what we’re doing that they’ve offered to help us promote this service to the thousands of pet lovers who receive their publication. The Animal Welfare League received countless numbers of pets each year from families ...