Pet Resume Template for Rental (Free, Printable)
Free pet resume template to help pet owners rent with pets. Includes pet profile, vaccination records, references, and landlord letter. Download as PDF or Word.
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PET RESUME ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ INTRODUCING [PET NAME] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [ATTACH CLEAR PHOTO — a calm, well-composed shot helps] Name: ______________________ Species/Breed: ______________________ Age: ______ Sex: M / F Desexed: Y / N Weight: _______ lbs Colour: ______________________ Microchip #: ______________________ [2–3 sentence description. Be warm but factual. Example: "Biscuit is a 4-year-old desexed male Labrador. He is calm indoors, house-trained, and has lived in rented accommodation for 3 years without incident. His vaccinations are current and he is enrolled in ongoing obedience classes."] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HEALTH & VACCINATIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Vaccinations: ☐ Fully up to date Last done: ______________________ Vet name: ______________________ Phone: ______________________ Flea/tick treatment: ☐ Current Frequency: ______________________ Heartworm prevention: ☐ Yes ☐ No Pet insurance: ☐ Yes Provider: ______________________ Policy #: ______ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TRAINING & BEHAVIOUR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ House-trained: ☐ Yes ☐ In progress Obedience training: ☐ Yes School/trainer: ______________________ Certificates: ______________________ Barking: ☐ Rarely ☐ When left alone ☐ At strangers Indoor habits: ______________________ Destructive behaviour history: ______________________ Grooming: ______________________ Frequency: ______________________ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ RENTAL HISTORY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Previous rental address: ______________________ Landlord/agent name: ______________________ Phone: ______________________ Years at property: ______ Any damage caused: Y / N Notes: ______ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REFERENCES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Ref 1 (vet/trainer/previous landlord): Name: ______________________ Role: ______________________ Phone/Email: ______________________ Ref 2: Name: ______________________ Role: ______________________ Phone/Email: ______________________ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ OWNER COMMITMENTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I, [OWNER NAME], commit to: ☐ Professional carpet and flea-treatment clean on vacating ☐ Prompt repair of any pet-related damage during tenancy ☐ Maintaining [PET NAME]'s vaccinations, parasite treatment, and registration ☐ Not permitting additional pets without written landlord approval ☐ Keeping [PET NAME] on leash in all common areas Owner signature: _____________________ Date: ____________
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This template is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. For legally binding documents, consult a qualified attorney in your jurisdiction.
Quick Answer
A pet resume is a one-page document submitted to a landlord alongside a rental application — it introduces your pet, demonstrates responsible ownership, provides references, and pre-empts concerns about damage or noise.
What Is a Pet Resume?
Finding a pet-friendly rental is hard. A pet resume gives you a real edge. Landlords are weighing risk — a well-presented pet resume reduces that risk by showing you're a responsible, organised pet owner who has thought about their concerns before they even raise them.
A strong pet resume includes a clear photo, vaccination and training records, prior tenancy references (or character references if this is a first rental), and a brief personal statement about your commitment to the property.
When Do You Need This?
What to Include
1. Pet profile
- Photo (clear, well-behaved pose)
- Name, breed, age, sex, weight
- Desexed: Y/N
- Microchip number
2. Health & training
- Vaccination status
- Flea/tick treatment up to date
- Training: obedience school, certificates
- Grooming routine
3. Behaviour notes
- Indoor vs outdoor habits
- Destructive behaviour history (honest)
- Noise level (barking)
- Previous rental history
4. References
- Previous landlord contact
- Vet reference
- Character reference (trainer, neighbour)
5. Owner commitment
- Pet insurance policy details
- Agreement to professional cleaning on exit
- Willingness to pay pet bond/deposit
Legal Notes by State
In most U.S. states, landlords can legally reject pets except for verified service animals and emotional support animals (which have different legal protections). A strong pet resume doesn't guarantee approval but significantly improves your chances.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do pet resumes actually work?+
Yes. Landlords reject unknown risks. A pet resume turns your pet from a risk into a known, documented, well-managed animal. Many tenants report that submitting one is the deciding factor in pet-friendly applications.
Should I attach vaccination records?+
Yes. Attach the most recent vet vaccination certificate. It takes 30 seconds to include and signals serious, responsible ownership.
What if my pet has caused damage in a previous rental?+
Disclose it briefly and frame it with the resolution: 'Biscuit chewed a door frame in 2022 — we repaired it professionally before vacating, confirmed by the landlord reference above.' Honesty builds more trust than concealment.