How can they do this? - Rotten fuckers

[Jack]

I know what you are going through. I went through the same thing with my cat. Fuckers found out about him so they raised a fuss about it. I took it to court because I had been there six months (under Michigan Law basically if your pet has been there for 4 or more months they cannot take action). I won my case but soon after the management found ways of making it look like I was a bad tenant. Saying I didn't pay, when I had the cancelled checks to prove that I did, documenting "complaints from other tenants" about my loud behavior, (which of course one of which said complaints was documented during a week I wasn't even in town) and just generally made me not want to live there anymore.

I ended up moving out rather than fight them anymore. You may find the same to be true if you fight your landlord.