Wow. Talk about due process. Talk about totalitarianism. This is NOT Liberalism, ‘cause I am a Liberal, and I know. How did this law sneak by us?
I had a dog a while back, gone now to the Rainbow Bridge, as they say, and he was my friend. A City Animal Control officer stopped me one day and told me that I had to buy a $100.00 permit to keep him in an unaltered state. WHAT?!?! Since when? Since our County Commissioners sold out to the HSUS, who believes that no human should have a companion animal, and that domestic animals should be extinct. Read http://www.pelaqitapersians.com/PETA_article.html and see. See also http://bluedogstate.blogspot.com/2006/10/testicle-wars-battle-for-control-of.html
I am a Democrat, and a Liberal Progressive, and find this disturbing at least, and alarming if I think about it. Why and when, and especially how does my dog or cat come under the control of the county when the dog or cat lives with me? More to the point, how can a bunch of commissioners tell me what I am supposed to do with a creature that is considered under law to be my property. When will they come into my home and tell me that I have to be sterilized? Will they tell me I can’t smoke, drink, or will they tell me in what manner I am to conduct myself?
My pets are well cared for, loved, protected, and are not, repeat not allowed to run at large (I used to be an Animal Control Officer), and I am responsible for them. Since they are pure bred, I feel that as I am their human “owner”, I should be able to allow them to breed without interference from any abusive overpowering government.
Anyone agree?
