<p>are pets allowed and if so which pets?</p>
<p>anything small and non disruptive such as a hamster, fish, bird, snake, or rabbit. However, you have a hall vote on to allow the pet or not. No cats or dogs.</p>
<p>No type of reptile or amphibian is allowed--snakes, turtles, and lizards are all forbidden. Dogs and cats are also not allowed. Small fish, small birds, and small caged animals are acceptable.</p>
<p>To be allowed, your entire hallway must unanimously vote in favor of the pet. If you happen to live in Dower, the entire dorm must vote unanimously in favor of the pet (it's a very very small dorm). Sometimes, there's not problem with this--small fish are generally accepted. Larger animals, given the fur, feathers, dander, and/or noise and smell, are sometimes more difficult to get accepted.</p>
<p>In case you want something more official to look at, the Official of Residential Life has a webpage devoted to the</a> pet policy.</p>
<p>Small fish are exempt from the voting requirement.</p>
<p>Thank you, WendyMouse! I couldn't remember anyone ever voting on fish, but then the webpage confused me.</p>
<p>I've had fish for four years.</p>
<p>Correction. I had six fish first year. This year I started with two.</p>
<p>Now I have one. :-( But man she's a trooper.</p>
<p>yay i'm soo happy, i'll bring in "Lapin" my rabbit (if i get in)</p>
<p>my roommate brings her dog to the dorm sometimes...
but then one time it got loose and I had to chase it and it peed in the elevator.
Even then, no one really said anything or seemed as if they cared. </p>
<p>Wellesley isn't so strict on enforcing the rules actually...most likely it would be another student who's ratting you out.</p>
<p>I understand that that was your friend however, i would be one of those people who "rat you out" and would probably make sure that the college was aware of breaking of policy</p>
<p>well then, you don't seem like someone who would live in Lake so it doesn't really matter</p>
<p>lol thistlepanger</p>
<p>Funny pet story/legend from my years:</p>
<p>A student decided that she wanted to have her cat with her on campus. One day, the cat apparently got dirty and needed a bath, so she took it to the kitchen and proceeded to wash the poor feline in the sink. An RA happened by in the middle of this process and saw the now-wet cat being bathed. The RA asked the student what animal it was. The student, panicking but trying not to get caught with an illegal pet, hastily replied, "It's a dog."</p>
<p>Moral of the story: if you're going to keep a forbidden pet, don't try to pass it off as another forbidden pet. (I've never been sure about how much of this story was embellished, but the essentials are quite possibly true.)</p>
<p>That is funny! If I saw some soaped up four-legged pet standing quietly in a sink, I would believe it was a dog! Have you ever tried to wash a cat? ;)</p>
<p>I heard that cat-deprived Wellesley girls visit dorms at a nearby engineering school to bond with the resident cats who roam the halls there.</p>
<p>Sounds like something I would do. Assuming that I get into a college, I am going to miss my kitties so much! <3 I think I would like to keep a hamster, though. Or a bunny if allowed, although they poop a lot.</p>
<p>Bunnies are allowed.</p>