![]() When she received the lawyer's letter from the condo association, Michaud-Allard said she suffered serious panic attacks. "When they forwarded me the new condo rules, in my head, it didn't click that they were different," said Michaud-Allard. She didn't notice that the rule regarding dog weight had changed when the new rules were sent to her electronically. ![]() Michaud-Allard said that when she purchased the condo in Saint-Jerome two years ago and signed the contract with the condo board, she had a copy of the old rules, which didn't say anything about a dog's weight limit. The only problem is that Princess is 35 pounds, 10 pounds over the condo's limit. "It made much more sense to go to the SPCA, try to find a dog that could match what I need and get trained to become my service dog." "It's too expensive for me," she told CJAD 800 Radio's Andrew Carter. ![]() ![]() Sarah Michaud-Allard suffers from anxiety and depression and adopted a husky mix named Princess three months ago rather than purchase a costly service dog, which she found could cost over $20,000. A woman living north of Montreal is in a battle with her condo association after the board found that the two-year-old husky she adopted from the SPCA to help with mental issues is over the weight limit. ![]()
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