1.   But his opponents insist that it is, and that housing authorities have long banned pets not because they are dangerous but because they are simply inconvenient.

2.   But on one issue, both chambers went in the opposite direction by stripping local housing administrators of the right to ban pets from their projects.

3.   Gov. Gray Davis signed legislation Wednesday preventing condominium and mobile-home homeowners associations from banning pets.

4.   Southwest Airlines has banned all pets, even in the cabin.

5.   Unbeknownst to her -- and apparently to many MBTA riders -- the T recently banned pets from trains and buses.

6.   Chinese schools banned electronic pets last month after teachers said they were too distracting.

7.   The Housing Authority bans pets from low-income housing.