Judge Jackson says, "Indeed, and that would make sense as a reason why a landlord wouldn't want pets in their building, but according to the letters from the other tenants they didn't even know Howard was there."

• So if the purpose of the law is to allow landlords to evict tenants with pets that are troublesome to other tenants, Howard would not count as a pet in that sense, correct?
• This all makes sense, but I don't think we can exclude a dog from the definition of pet.