Why does Toronto and other cities require pet registration?

[Priller]

If the shelter gets your pet that was lost or runs away it is $75+ to get it back.

Not if you have a license in Hamilton, can't speak for other municipalities. You also get one free delivery home per year...

Off leash parks are for prick dog owners. Honestly, most of the people in there bring their dogs because they have no control over them and then run away when their dog attacks others.

Fair enough, though my experience isn't quite so stark. Our current dogs are both older so don't need much energy burnt, but when I had a husky cross, the only way to tire him out was to let him run with other dogs (his legs outlasted my arm with a frisbee or tennis ball). Every so often you'd get an uncontrolled aggressive dog, but the vast majority were fine.

Start fining those pricks thousands for that behaviour (and/or banning pet ownership) and you don't need to waste so much time and money collecting $34 at a time.

And spend just as much chasing and collecting? Animal cruelty laws have typically been extremely difficult to enforce, and the list of repeat offenders is very long. Can't see why this would be any different...

Many smaller municipalities contract local not-for-profit shelters to handle animal control and strays, but this comes with a lot of other issues around private individuals charged with enforcing bylaws. My sister helps run one in a mid-sized town in BC, and they hate the role because it puts their staff in genuine danger. Between having to go to some pretty sketchy spots to confiscate abused animals from unpleasant owners, to having dogs dumped at their door by the RCMP after an owner is arrested (which often results in violent and angry late-night-bang-on-the-door demands to get the dog back on release), they take on a huge amount of personal risk for almost no pay. The RCMP are mostly of zero help, and usually make situations worse when they do get involved by antagonising everyone, escalating tension, and then leaving to let the shelter workers pick up the pieces. The only reason they do it at all is that if they didn't then nobody else would, and they all work there because of a deep love of animals.

 

[GreyGhost]

And spend just as much chasing and collecting? Animal cruelty laws have typically been extremely difficult to enforce, and the list of repeat offenders is very long. Can't see why this would be any different...

I was more thinking along the lines of hit and run type fines. Enforcing animal cruelty laws is hard. It's much easier if you make the act of running away after an attack its own violation. Camera in the park and parking lot collect the evidence/plates and the prosecution should be relatively simple. Our dog went twice to the local fenced off-leash park and was attacked once. A dog walker we knew well refused to ever take a dog there due to the frequency of attacks (and 100% of the time, the attacking dog owners ran away). Another area in the same municipality was explicitly leash required but you rarely saw a leash and there were few issues. People with the misbehaving dogs wouldn't take them there as it was unfenced and they would run away.

 

[油井緋色]

If the shelter gets your pet that was lost or runs away it is $75+ to get it back. Off leash parks are for prick dog owners. Honestly, most of the people in there bring their dogs because they have no control over them and then run away when their dog attacks others. Start fining those pricks thousands for that behaviour (and/or banning pet ownership) and you don't need to waste so much time and money collecting $34 at a time.

I heavily agree with this. I spend, on average, 2 hours a day walking and training my puppy. It's very obvious when I see an untrained dog as a result lol I don't want them anywhere near her.

 

[nobbie48]

They tax dogs for the same reason dogs lick their genitals?

Because they can.

 

[Wingboy]

They tax dogs for the same reason dogs lick their genitals?

Because they can.

Jealous?

 

[GreyGhost]

Jealous?

Who says he cant?

 

[油井緋色]

Who says he cant?

Don't you have to remove ribs for that lol

 

[mimico_polak]

My parents had a cat and refused to get her registered. Inspector came by once ‘heard you have an unregistered cat?’
‘Nope, she died’
‘I’m so sorry’
‘Eff off’

Cat was alive, but died a year later anyway. She was an awesome cat, but my allergies didn’t let me keep her.

It’s nothing more than a ******** tax grab.

 

[Wingboy]

My parents had a cat and refused to get her registered. Inspector came by once ‘heard you have an unregistered cat?’
‘Nope, she died’
‘I’m so sorry’
‘Eff off’

Cat was alive, but died a year later anyway. She was an awesome cat, but my allergies didn’t let me keep her.

It’s nothing more than a ******** tax grab.

Totally agree that it's a tax grab. Kitchener has a bylaw, no loose cats. Waterloo doesn't. There are colonies of feral cats in Waterloo. Not near the problem in Kitchener. There are lost cat signs taped up all over the neighborhood here. People are stupid.

 

[crankcall]

I'll send you some coyotes. There are NO stray cats here and every time somebody puts up a missing cat poster , somebody puts a picture of Wil-E-Coyote up beside it.
Wife thinks its mean , I still think its funny

 

[Wingboy]

I'll send you some coyotes. There are NO stray cats here and every time somebody puts up a missing cat poster , somebody puts a picture of Wil-E-Coyote up beside it.
Wife thinks its mean , I still think its funny

Awesome. I love watching the songbirds. But housecats kill billions of them. Lady across the road from me has 4 of the ******** and let's them run free. She calls me the neighborhood thug because i told her i set traps in my yard.Muahahaha.