Judge Jackson says, "Indeed, and that would make sense as a reason why a landlord wouldn't want pets in their building, but a goldfish isn't noisy, and we have letters from the other tenants saying they didn't mind Tootsie and didn't even know she was there."

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