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DC apartments usually seem pretty permissive of dogs in order to attract tenants. It would kind of be a sea change if they went the other way. There’s only one or two management companies that ban pets and kind of treat it as a specificamenity.

In a rental market where renters have agency, i.e. one with abundant housing options, landlords will compete to get tenants with pets.

Also breed restrictions are mostly pushed by insurance companies and they are exiting multifamily all over the place.

I have a 150lb Newfoundland, and we live in a studio apartment. Giant dogs actually are great apartment dogs because they are extremely lazy. High-energy working dogs (huskies, sheepdogs, etc.) don't belong in apartments.

And there is a non-zero chance in DC that the pet someone shows up with is a 130 lb cane corso, both notoriously aggressive and drooly.

I had a 45 lb dog gouge the enamel of a century-old cast iron tub (my own) bc he didn't want a bath. Well within reason to set a limit.

I once called a landlord who was advertising a unit in a “pet friendly” building in NYC. It turned out they didn’t allow dogs or cats. When asked why they posted it as “pet friendly”, the reply came: “A goldfish would be OK.”

Wow tell me more about how you hate cute cuddly animals and want to skin a bunch of Dalmatians for a coat.