Yeah, that's more or less what Ramius said too.
Just seems to me that disappointments are something you encounter anyway, not really something you should set yourself up for.
Which is what I've done in this case. :-/
I'm hanging on to a thin thread of hope that the owners are the type of folks that don't really care as long as we put down a deposit. The former tenant had a dog, after all.
They may just want to approve the kind of pet so that tenants don't bring home 4 pit bulls. So maybe they'll say it's OK to have a dog as long as it weighs less than 50 lbs.
This is just an investment property for them, not their "home" - so there's that.
Yeah...at this point it could still happen!
Post pics of the new pup if it does!