State housing tenant forced to choose between pets or tenancy

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An Auckland state house tenant is unfairly being forced to choose between her two dogs or a roof over her head according to an advocate for the family. The Favona family, a grandma, mum and son has a pair of mixed breed dogs and say Kainga Ora has told them to get rid of the dogs or risk losing their home. The family claims its been upfront with the agency, about having the dogs and there's been no complaints about Nema and Sophie. An Animal Sanctuary that's helping them rehome the dogs says the family got into problems when they filled out a Kainga Ora pet policy form, and indentified the dogs as Pitbulls even though they are mixbreed and not pure bred. Anna Dahlberg, who runs Paws Awhile Animal Sanctuary spoke to Lisa Owen.