PHOTO: SVEN HERSELMAN/STUFF The landlord accused the tenant’s cat, Misty Blue, of damaging the house’s wallpaper (file photo).
A cat accused of damaging a home has been exonerated and the landlords who demanded a cat bond for her, have been ordered to pay it back.
Misty Blue and her owner, Celia Langabeer, moved into a rental home in Auckland’s Mt Wellington in August 2017.
Langabeer paid a $1200 bond and a month later, she paid a further $500 after one of her landlords, Diane Fortune, asked for a “cat bond”.
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