<human>: When my girlfriend and I moved into this place in March, we did so with the intention of finding a puppy/dog in the near future. The landlord, a property management company, said in the ad that pets were allowable with an additional, refundable $500 deposit . Okay, not big deal.

Jump to labor day weekend and we rescue a fine looking golden retriever that appears to be between 1 and 2 years old. We email the landlord after the weekend saying we have found a dog! He replies with a, 'congratulations' and lets us know it will be an additional $500 deposit, just like already talked about. Here's where the situation begins...

A day after this email correspondence, he calls and tells us that the owners of the house no longer want pets to be allowed for whatever reason. Wtf? What are we suppose to do now? We just spend 6 months actively looking for a puppy, settled for rescuing a dog and now we have to give the dog up for adoption?

So, later that day, we take a good look at our lease agreement and find that there is no policy on pets. There's nothing in the lease that even mentions pets.

I call the landlord up and basically tell him he has no leg to stand on because there is no pet policy allowing or disallowing pets in the lease. And, in fact, we're not even obligated to pay the $500 deposit. (At this point, we still had intentions of paying it)

Now a few days later, we receive a 10-day notice in the mail to remove the pet or get evicted because we are failing to uphold the lease agreement.

My questions is: are we in the right here contractually? and, does he actually have any leg to stand on to evict us or is he blowing smoke?

This is my first post on reddit and I appreciate any feed back, Thanks!

The dog is a golden retriever and we're in Oregon, by the way.

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<bot>: Landlord flip flopped his allowance on pets days after we got a dog. Lease agreement has no pet policy. Landlord sends 10 day notice to remove pet or we get evicted. Is he blowing smoke?