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Where did all these do good busy bodies come from?

If you want to know where they get the authority to check for licenses;

Title 3 P.S. Agriculture
Chapter 8. Dogs and Cats
Article IV. Duties of Officers
� 459-401. Interference with police officer or State dog warden; duties of State dog warden; failure to produce license certificate
(e) Illegal to fail to produce license.--It shall be unlawful for any person to whom a license certificate has been issued to fail or refuse to produce the license certificate for such dog upon demand of any police officer or employee of the department.

Sounds like a good reason never to get a dog license.

Might sound ludicrous but one of the more insidious political things occurring is the quiet spread of the animal rights agenda through the provision of low-cost or free dog and cat neutering services to communities in return for promises of regulations to be passed, part of which is working towards a no-kill shelter.

I ain't gonna argue that neutered pets or no-kill shelters are bad things but here is what quietly passed in San Antonio with little or no public input in response to a mobile "SNAP Wagon" program where they tow a spay/neuter trailer around to different store and mall parking lots.

1) Passed a leash law throughout the city rather than the previous "animal under control" wording.
2) Expanded the dog license program to the extent that the cost for unneutered pets is higher, and if you want to BREED a dog you are supposed to obtain a yet more expensive "breeding permit" from the city of San Antonio before the fact.
3) Made it illegal to leave a dog in a parked car at any season for any length of time.
4) Made it illegal to chain a dog outside, even within your own fenced yard.
5) Made it illegal to buy or sell any animal out of your vehicle by the side of the road.
6) Banned pet sales (even birds and fish) at the local flea markets. One should understand that the "flea markets" on the South Side here are huge, more like outdoor malls where lots of regular folks commonly shop on weekends.
7) Greatly reduced patrols by dogcatchers to round up/trap obvious stray/feral dogs so as to lower the dog intake, thus achieving a more "no kill" shelter.

Of course the lower income population of San Antonio is so big, and the dog-left-chained-out-in-the-yard thing so prevalent a part of the local culture, that thus far enforcement relative to numbers has been low.

But what these laws do is give the city a club if they need it.

My own three heelers walk reliably off-leash at heel. We often leave them in the car when on errands and two of them were bought by roadside sales. None of them has ever been licensed and one is intact, we might breed her at some point.

Now it suddenly turns out I am or was in violation of the laws on all four counts. Even I wasn't aware of it when these laws were quietly enacted a few years back and I tend to be more informed about such things than most folks.

Birdwatcher

any cat that is more than 150 feet(i bleieve) away from a building may legally be shot

There is no "right" needed to walk up and knock on your door. It's not like they are walking into your backyard and checking Fido's tags.

There is no "right" needed to walk up and knock on your door. It's not like they are walking into your backyard and checking Fido's tags.

Every person I've met from PA has been a liberal. So this really doesn't surprise me.



Travis