<p>I know you can't have pets but would people agree that I'd be nice if you could bring your cats or something (I have 2 cats :) )... I know MIT allows it now...</p>
<p>pets make for hassle occasionally, especially if dogs bark too much, wet the dorm, etc.</p>
<p>cats, not so much, unless it attacks passerby, so i guess Cal avoids all bad situations by barring pets.</p>
<p>I can definitely agree about the dogs part, I have them too… I would argue for cats though… (mine don’t attack passerby lol)… and I know that like everyone on the floor would have to agree to allow pets or something… (30 cats wandering the dorm halls :D… nah I don’t think that’d work)</p>
<p>I’m going to have to make an argument against pets (in the dorms I’m assuming). I love pets, but I have a couple friends who are allergic to cats and dogs. Furthermore, pets would make great vectors for contagious diseases which spread even more quickly when people are living in close quarters.</p>
<p>yea… if you want pets live in apts some allow pets.</p>
<p>Hamsters in balls would be awesome though.</p>
<p>I know in the dorms you can have a fish.</p>
<p>Students, especially first-years, are often way too busy being social, going to class, studying in the library, eating at the dining hall, etc., etc. to make for good pet owners anyway.</p>
<p>Not to mention you’d either have to keep your room door closed all the time (anti-social if you’re in the Units!) or let the pets roam the hallway which… yeah.</p>
<p>Amusing, and I admit I miss my own fuzzy pets. Berkeley is not very pet-friendly and finding an apartment that allows them is hard. 
I cheated enough to get my rats/geckos/snake in my apartment. >_></p>
<p>I have a 3-gallon tank in the dorms with fish and it used to have some shrimp and even a newt. haha. the frog is the only one that survived in the tank, and that is because berkeley water basically killed everything else off. so be careful if you’re thinking of fish…</p>
<p>my pet bacterium reproduced and got the entire floor infected.
found a new one the next day though. no worries.</p>