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Title: Town makes it illegal to own more than 3 cats
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URL Source: http://www.comcast.net/articles/new ... d/20091103/US.ODD.3.Cat.Limit/
Published: Nov 3, 2009
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Post Date: 2009-11-03 23:33:59 by farmfriend
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DUDLEY, Mass. — It's now illegal in one Massachusetts town to own more than three cats without getting a special license. Voters at a town meeting in Dudley on Monday night added language to a town bylaw that makes it illegal to own more than three cats without a $50 residential kennel license. Dudley is about 60 miles southwest of Boston. The article was in response to a neighborhood feud over the 15 cats owned by Mary Ellen Richards. The Telegram & Gazette of Worcester reports that one neighbor claimed the cats have ruined his yard. Richards has put her home up for sale and says she plans to move to a "more cat-friendly community."
Poster Comment: some legislation actually makes sense.
Town makes it illegal to own more than 3 cats
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#1. To: farmfriend (#0)
I love cats, but she needs to move to a large estate/farm if she wants that many cats.
_________________________________________________________________________ A pellet rifle with a CO2 cartridge makes better sense and doesn't involve the nanny state.
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~ William Colby, Director, CIA 1973–1976 The purpose of the legal system is to protect the elites from the wrath of those they plunder.- Elliott Jackalope "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
Nanny state never makes sense. This is just another source of revenue for the city, getting a $50 fee from every sucker with four cats and a neighbor who doesn't like them crapping in the rose bushes. More fines, more regulations, more waste of manpower amending all the law books, more waste of manpower enforcing kitty controls, more reasons for neighbors to get people in trouble with the law simply because they don't care for them and are vindictive. It would have been quite easy to round up a dozen kitties and take them to a no kill shelter than going through a legal battle and counting on nanny state to rush in a save the day.
Especially once they are on YOUR turf and not "their" turf.
COMRADE! Why are you not showing your Party affiliation and showing proper respect for Dear Leader? Put your Barackstika armband on RIGHT NOW!
Gov and HS employees have been instructed to take impromptu animal census and assessment for living conditions while out and about. And believe me the standards they are planning to implement will allow no one to own an animal without great expense. Try to never let the HS or the county on your property without a warrant. One such bureaucrat has set insect traps in some of our trees on the edge of the property without our permission which I think is just an excuse to visit and look the place over every two weeks. So far I haven't objected but I told her today when she was checking the traps (and shaking fruit off the trees while supposedly trying to stir up potential bad insects) that I would be pruning the trees next week and they need to be gone by then.
Believe me, I know this quite well. No easement - no access.
COMRADE! Why are you not showing your Party affiliation and showing proper respect for Dear Leader? Put your Barackstika armband on RIGHT NOW!
She STOLE your crop harvest by doing that. You should send a bill to the city for compensation at current market rates and make a nasty phone call to the local D.A.'s office. Unless you weren't going to harvest that fruit (I've got a pear tree with more than I can use, I can't even give it all away).
_________________________________________________________________________ Take them down to your local soup kitchen.
When 75 illegal aliens were found in a 3 bedroom house near here, the Daily News reported the following response from the Los Angeles Police Department: "The LAPD responded to determine whether any state crimes occurred, and once they found no evidence of such crime, they turned the case over to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency" "Our role is merely to determine whether there's any victims," Velez said. "We don't care what their immigration status is. We don't have a crime. We're done."
Splendid, thank you for the idea.
_________________________________________________________________________ Shoot one of my kitties with it and you would find out just how fast a nasty devious cat owner can retaliate. I love my little furry friends and vice versa - they're nicer than a lot of people. How many people curl up on your lap and purr?
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. ~ Anatole France
Or a local Church that has a Food Bank.
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. ~ Anatole France
You are most welcome.
At least one.
I love cats. I own one now and have had at least one my whole life. However, better to kill those cats than have nanny state government pass arbitrary laws punishing everyone because of the irresponsibility of one person. On top of that, I have a right to protect my property and if your cats are destroying my yard the way the cats are said to have done in this story and you refuse to do anything about it, then you really leave me with no choice.
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~ William Colby, Director, CIA 1973–1976 The purpose of the legal system is to protect the elites from the wrath of those they plunder.- Elliott Jackalope "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
The article was in response to a neighborhood feud over the 15 cats owned by Mary Ellen Richards.
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#2. To: farmfriend (#0)
some legislation actually makes sense.
#3. To: farmfriend (#0)
some legislation actually makes sense.
#4. To: abraxas (#3)
It would have been quite easy to round up a dozen kitties and take them to a no kill shelter than going through a legal battle and counting on nanny state to rush in a save the day.
#5. To: mirage (#4)
Especially once they are on YOUR turf and not "their" turf.
#6. To: mininggold (#5)
Try to never let the HS or the county on your property without a warrant.
#7. To: mininggold (#5)
today when she was checking the traps (and shaking fruit off the trees while supposedly trying to stir up potential bad insects)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#8. To: X-15 (#7)
I can't even give it all away
"Greenhouse gases do not act as a blanket around the earth and they do not keep the atmosphere warm. ... greenhouse gases emit more radiation than they absorb and this ongoing radiation loss tends to cool the atmosphere at between 1C and 2C per day, a fact known for more than 50 years. And yet we continue to get the simplistic explanation that greenhouse gases warm the atmosphere and so more greenhouse gases will warm the atmosphere more. No wonder the public is taken in!" --William Kininmonth, meteorologist , 1791
#9. To: farmfriend (#0)
#10. To: farmfriend (#8)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#11. To: Hayek Fan (#2)
#12. To: X-15 (#10)
#13. To: X-15 (#10)
Splendid, thank you for the idea.
"Greenhouse gases do not act as a blanket around the earth and they do not keep the atmosphere warm. ... greenhouse gases emit more radiation than they absorb and this ongoing radiation loss tends to cool the atmosphere at between 1C and 2C per day, a fact known for more than 50 years. And yet we continue to get the simplistic explanation that greenhouse gases warm the atmosphere and so more greenhouse gases will warm the atmosphere more. No wonder the public is taken in!" --William Kininmonth, meteorologist , 1791
#14. To: Original_Intent (#11)
How many people curl up on your lap and purr?
"Greenhouse gases do not act as a blanket around the earth and they do not keep the atmosphere warm. ... greenhouse gases emit more radiation than they absorb and this ongoing radiation loss tends to cool the atmosphere at between 1C and 2C per day, a fact known for more than 50 years. And yet we continue to get the simplistic explanation that greenhouse gases warm the atmosphere and so more greenhouse gases will warm the atmosphere more. No wonder the public is taken in!" --William Kininmonth, meteorologist , 1791
#15. To: Original_Intent (#11)
Shoot one of my kitties with it and you would find out just how fast a nasty devious cat owner can retaliate. I love my little furry friends and vice versa - they're nicer than a lot of people. How many people curl up on your lap and purr?
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