Dog Ordinance-fighting against it!

[applesmom]

we have had one of these for years, personally I dont licence my dogs, I am not about to pay the government to have all my dogs info at their fingertips which can be used against me the moment any sort of dog breed, number or size limit is implemented. It is not enforable unless your dog ends up at the shelter anyway.

That's one way of looking at it.

On the other end of the spectrum, I always considered licensing as an inexpensive way to increase the odds of getting my dogs back if something unforseeable should happen and one of them got lost. In that case the reclaiming fee would only be $50 as opposed to the hundreds of dollars in fines if they hadn't been licensed. Another advantage is, if a dog is licensed and should happen to bite or scratch someone they can be quarantined at home instead of in the pound.

[cali]

Rabies is the ONLY thing taken into consideration for quarentine here, if you have proof of a Rabies shot within that last 3 years then quarentine is at home.

now for ending up at the shelter from running off or something, if your dog is fixed they get out free regaurdless, the vets here give out a couple "get out of jail free" cards to every fixed dog or cat. if your pet is intact and not licenced the the fee is $200 + the cost of a licence. if you dont want to pay $200 or licence and have your dogs intact then I suggest you keep a close eye on your dog lol

[wolfsoul]

I personally don't license my dogs. Animal control here checks up on homes with dogs deemed "dangerous.". I was fined $200 and Visa was given a dangerous dog last year when a little boy rode his bike through the dog play area of my campsite while six dogs were playing and Visa scratched him. Animal control loves nothing more than to check up on homes with dangerous dogs -- when an animal control officer came to my house last year, he opened the gate to my yard and just walked in while Visa was out there. He claimed she tried to attack him, that she was charging him. I supervise my dogs at all times, and I saw everything through the window -- she was 10 feet away from him, barking, and running up and down my porch stairs where my door was to warn me. After the incednet last year, animal control visited my mother's house and asked questions about me, about my dogs -- they took my mom's lisence plate number! They asked for her job information!

So I refuse to support these people. Don't get me wrong, I have one friend and one family member that work for animal control -- but I still hate what goes on behind closed doors and I hate what they did to me last year. The amount of stress they put me through because of a little scratch. Jynnelle had to give away her malamute when she was a kid because animal control said it killed a cat and they were goign to come and take it. They came over every week with excuses to fien them or take their dogs. When they stopped licensing, animal control went away.

Back to the original subject -- Paying that amount of money all at once seems pretty lame -- if it was monthly or something it wouldn't be so bad. Certainly not as bad as it is here. Here you pay $50 per dog AND pay the $200 a year kennel license, AND live on an acerage. If you don't live on an acerage they will take away your dogs until you are down to two dogs and put them to sleep (the SPCA refuses to take the animal control dogs now so they are PTS). I don't live on an acerage and I doubt I ever will. Basically if I license my dogs I'm forced to give them away quickly or have them PTS.

[areias]

I think it would be better that if you have a kennel license, you get reduced tags.

Here the altered tag is $10 and the unaltered $30, plus seniors get discounts. Here you can get cited if your dog is not tagged, even if it has it's rabies vaccine. Stupid. I really have to get Sam in soon, because if you've ever gotten a tag on your dog in my county and it's well overdue, they will stop by and check if you have the dog and then give you a citation. We don't need AC over here with the amount of dogs we have (4 dogs or cats is the limit for some odd reason...technically we have 7 dogs and 2 cats in the household).