A dog groomer who is so devoted to her rescue pooch that she spent £4,500 in two months on Airbnb apartments and moved 15 times as she could not find a London rental flat to accept him has been forced to abandon her hunt and move back in with her mother.
Facing redundancy in August 2020 and with her lease expiring on her rented flat in the October, Kirsty Hunt, 36, who is single, says her four-year-old French bulldog Harper was her lifeline and she refused for them to be parted.
Following pet friendly proposals made in a recent government white paper, ‘A fairer rented sector,’ including a formal tenant’s right to request an animal in their property and requirement for landlords to justify refusing, Kirsty revealed how she had to take out a loan to finance a year’s rent upfront to secure a flat in the capital.
Kirsty said finding a dog-friendly flat in London was a ‘nightmare’ (Collect/PA Real Life)
Forced to move back to Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, this month with Harper to live with her mum, support teacher, Julie Hunt, 61, as the cost of living crisis bites, she said:…
