It depends. Suppose you've had a previous pet violation within 6 months. You will not get an opportunity to remedy the violation and the notice to vacate is legal and irreversible. From the landlord's perspective and the law's perspective you knew what the rules were and chose to violate them on purpose. The law allows for *one* misunderstanding but not deliberate manipulative behavior. The opportunity to remedy is reserved for people who have never had a pet violation before. It sounds to me as though you're fully aware of the rules but are considering breaking them anyway and using the remedy period to allow you to do what you want, which is to pet sit the dogs, even if you get caught. That's not a good idea and it's not a good frame of mind to let yourself get into. If you cause your landlord to believe you're the kind of person who gets away with the maximum possible under the law, that does permanent damage to your business relationship and may make the landlord come down harder on you in the future for things that aren't necessarily your fault. You'd be better advised to pet sit a bit differently by keeping the dogs at your parents' place and check in on them two or three times a day. It would be easier on you and also on the dogs.