It’s doggie discrimination.
R🍌esidents of an Upper West Side apartment tower are barking mad over their co-op board’s new policy requir💟ing them to provide proof of their pooches’ pedigrees.
The board at 170 West End Ave. is demanding letters from veterinarians to verify the breeds of the dogs in the building to make ಞsure its four-legged residents are on the list of approved pooches.
The board has a list of 27 breeds that “are not permitted🍸 to reside in the buꦜilding based upon documented information regarding their tendency towards aggressiveness,” the policy says.
The list of forbidden Fidos includes Malteses, Pomeranians, St. Bernards and🌞 German shepherds. Dogs that are unable to bring a note from their doctors will have to take a DNA test.
Outraged residents and indignant dog lovers accused the board of bowwow bigotry.
The dog DNA tests are just the late🍒st bit of muscle-flexing by “power-hungry co-op boards,” said Michele Kleier, a top Manhattan broker and dog lover.
Last year, a prospective buyer in Tudor City complained when a co-op board there wanted to interview her underage♏ son befo𒐪re deciding on her application.
“You wonder what they will think of next?” Kleier said. “Do they want you to tr🍬ain your dog not to bark? Train your baby not to cry?”
Kleier, who is active with the ꧂Humane Society, said that the board is hurting itself and that property values will 💟drop there over the issue.
She vowed that she would never show an apartment in t✅hat bu𝐆ilding.
Bill Tsigrikes, who walks dogs for residents in the building, said, “You can’t determine temperament by breed. Temperament has to do with lots of things,🅠 like 🥂how they were raised, whether they came from a puppy mill, when they were weaned. It’s a silly policy.”
The board’s president, Robert Sadꦅin, did not re꧟turn a call for comment.