Standard Requirement
Dogs are accepted as a normal part of residency; decisions follow published criteria that are reasonable and applied consistently to comparable cases.
RDRS-01 A2 · Pass/fail. Fail this requirement and the outcome is Not Certified.
Dogs are accepted as a normal part of residency. Decisions on a dog, whether approval, conditions, or refusal, are made against published criteria and applied consistently to comparable cases.
The criteria must themselves be reasonable and proportionate, relevant to a dog's actual behaviour and suitability for the home. Criteria set so as to exclude ordinary household dogs, however evenly they are applied, do not meet this requirement.
Individual assessment of a dog is allowed; arbitrary or inconsistent treatment, or acceptance that turns on staff discretion or special pleading, is not.
Roch Interpretation
Same facts, same answer, whoever is on duty. And the criteria themselves have to be fair, not impossible hurdles dressed up as objective rules.
Examples
Compliant
Every dog is assessed against the same reasonable, written behaviour checklist, regardless of who reviews it.
Not compliant
Criteria no ordinary dog could pass, applied to everyone equally, used to keep all dogs out.