As I understand it, if the cat is caught, there is a fine and maybe a presumption of animal cruelty. Hard to believe, but I was listening to an interview with the woman the other day, and her logid is that inside cats live longer. Maybe so, but my cat really really really wants to go outside and chase birds and bugs. It's hardwired. In my opinion it would be cruel to keep him inside.
The thing with the lack of companionship provisions for dogs is really stupid also. What about people who live alone? Are they supposed to get a dogsitter to go to the grocery store? What about work, are they supposed to choose between having a pet and having a job? It's already illegal to leave an animal in a car here, and considering how often it's really really hot here, that seems reasonable. But most of what I do during the day precludes bringing a dog. The dog (a Pyrenees mix we think) has a large back yard with plenty of shade and is happy to guard the house. She is walked and played with often and has frequent guests (our foster animals). When this bill was passed its primary purpose was supposed to be improving conditions at the notorious Animal Shelter here, and I was in favor of that. There were provisions to deal with the people who breed pit bulls in there back yard, and having seen how often these dogs get thrown away, I was in favor of making it harder to deliberately produce more pit bulls also. What was not publicized at the time was an increase in adoption fees and some of the sillier provisions, like the above. It now costs two hundred some dollars to adopt an animal at the pound here. I understand that the money has to come from somewhere, but I think we could defer landscaping at city hall or something. A fee increase like that just makes it even more certain that an animal that goes there will be euthanized. If I were the time of person who follows rules for the sake of following rules, I'd probably get rid of both the cat and the dog to avoid the risk of a fine. Fortunately for them, I am not and since I am not, I'll keep up my efforts to keep individual animals from going to the pound. But it would be really really nice if those of us who were trying to do the right thing when it comes to animals were not fighting over issues like this. There are enough animals who need help now without patrolling the trees for happy hunter housecats. Of course the above rant assumes that Animal Control has enough resources to enforce this law, and I suspect it doesn't but nonetheless. Passing stupid laws breeds contempt for laws. As you can tell, I am pretty annoyed. It's the councilwoman for my district, to add insult to injury. It also bugs me that she is out there reinforcing the stereotype of the blond bubblehead. Furthermore she has an unbelievably pretentious pronounciattion of her last name, Mayer. I'd been unaware of this till I heard her on the radio, thinking it was pronounced as in mayor. But noooo. She says Ma - yay. Suuure that's a French name, honey, sure. ::eyeroll:: >You can't even leave dogs indoors in crates with food and water? My wife and >I both work, her job is pretty lax about dogs but she couldn't bring him in >every day.. > >And what happened if your cat accidentally gets out? > >yeesh > > >Scott Stewart > >ColdFusion Developer/Administrator > >GlobalNet Services, Inc. > >www.gnsi.com > >301-770-9610 x358 (Voice) > >301-770-9611 (Fax) > > > >The information contained in this message may be privileged, confidential, >and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the >intended recipient, or any employee or agent responsible for delivering this >message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any >dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly >prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify >us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your >computer. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 10:45 AM >To: CF-Community >Subject: Re: Annie Passed Away > ><rant> > >tell me about it. Albuquerque just passed a law proposed by our supposed >animal advocate on the city council, and... ::sigh:: where to begin. I >putter around the fringes of animal rescue, do emergency foster care in a >small way, and I break this law thirty ways to sunday, and don't see how I >can do otherwise. It contains some really stupid provisions. You can't leave >a dog home alone? Hello? Even in a backyard that has food, shade and water? >What are people supposed to do? It is also now illegal to allow a cat >outside. Even a cat that is spayed/neutered and has flea protection and all >its shots. Cats are cats, and they hunt. It's what they do. > ></rant> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:5/messageid:210833 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
