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There is something about being an "official" that drives what may have been normal people to become ogres bent on draconian control of the mere sheeple they now see themselves obligated to control. Fact is, they were seated to SERVE the people and somehow they pervert that to CONTROL the people. The effect of election or designation to become an "official" seems to be universal. This group of proposals emerged in the local paper just this week. Some probably should have been in place long ago but others are just outright unnecessary and probably even unenforceable. I don't very often see anyone walking their pet alligator on a leash in the park:

• Adding a section prohibiting the sale or give away of animals at the roadside or at parking lots within the city, without specific exceptions

• Requiring spaying or neutering of domesticated animals, except those belonging to hobby breeders and kennels, or under the care of a veterinarian or animal hospital

• Requiring tags and collars, as well as rabies vaccination • Limiting animals in city parks and on park trails to dogs only, which must be on a leash at all times

• Impounding, euthanizing or adopting out of animals • Regaining [retaining?] impounded animals, which requires licensing, vaccinating and spaying or neutering

• Adding a section on feeding of stray dogs, cats or other stray animals

• Prohibiting the feeding of stray animals, except by a veterinarian or an employee of a humane society or by special permit by the city

• Licensing and limiting the number of animals owned without obtaining a special handlers license from the city

• Prohibiting the restraint of animals by chaining or tying, unless authorized by an animal welfare official

• Requiring liability insurance or surety bond indemnifying the owner of personal injuries inflicted by a dangerous animal

• Clarifying the definition of domestic birds, small animals, household pets, rabies and feeding of animals • Keeping of swine, which is limited to miniature pigs, except for educational programs and exhibition purposes

• Eliminating special handlers licenses

You may not be able to fight city hall but you can't fight ignorance either.