It seems that everyone, from our loval government, to Washington DC, to Liberal activists, to homeowners associations are sticking their noses into every bit of our business
Melissa Lecker is walking outside her three-bedroom home in downtown Wausau, Wis., and talking about her dogs.
“These dogs are our family,” she says as she looks down at two 13-year-old golden retrievers, Abbie and Jesse.
Right behind her are her 1-year-old Yorkie, Archie, and Chester, her 3-year-old shih tzu.
“They are just like our children,” she says.
In fact, she says emphatically her four dogs are more important to her than her money or even her home.
“This house doesn’t mean as much to us as they do.”
Ironic because it’s the house she and her husband are set to lose because of their love for their pups.
James and Melissa moved to Wausau in early January, buying a new home and what they thought was the beginning of a great life in Wausau.
What they didn’t know is Wausau has an ordinance limiting the number of pets.
In Wausau, for instance, you can’t have more than three cats, three gerbils or three rabbits. And, unfortunately for the Leckers, you can’t have more than two dogs.
Laws like this over reach the common sense of those who author such bills. Yes, I am sure that there were plenty of “good intentions” behind this law. But, as history shows us over and again, along with those good intentions come unintended consequences. H/T Feral Irishman
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Dave C
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We have two cats. We live full time in a motorhome. Somebody doesn’t like us or the cats, we hit the road.
If it doesn’t have wheels under it, I don’t want to live in it, and that’s that.
There are many cities and communities that limit pets and other things. People should do their research before thinking about moving anywhere.
The city I live in has a limit of five cats and/or three dogs per household. In other words, if you have five cats, you could get a dog (or two or three), but not another cat. Would someone please explain to me how this makes sense? Due to the fact that my kids are always rescuing strays, I have a lot of cats, and I’m actually in violation of the law at the moment. But if anyone reports me to the authorities, when they come to arrest me I’ll just dress the surplus cats in dog costumes, and then it’ll be okay.
Oh, and we’re not allowed to keep chickens, either. On any given winter day there will be anywhere from half a dozen to a dozen huge wild turkeys in my yard, scrounging for the food that falls from the bird feeders, but I can’t keep a chicken. Our neighborhood is also infested with white-tail deer, and it’s not unusual for me to look out my window and see eight or ten of them in my yard. But it would be illegal for me to keep a goat. Yep, that makes sense.
People who sit around thinking up jackass ordinances like this just have too much time on their hands.