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Town approves 3-cat limit
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| 11/4/2009
| Staff
Posted on 11/05/2009 11:46:34 AM PST by Red Badger
DUDLEY, Mass., Nov. 4 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts town outlawed owning three cats without a kennel license after a man complained his neighbor's felines were hurting his lawn.
Voters at a Dudley town meeting Tuesday night approved the addition of the new language to a town bylaw, which will impose a $100 per day fine for violations, after a local man complained that some of the 15 cats owned by Mary Ellen Richards had destroyed his grass, the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram & Gazette reported Wednesday.
Richards said at the town meeting that she now plans to put her house up for sale and move to a "more cat-friendly community,"
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: animalcontrol; cat; catcatcher; cathouse; catlady; cultofthecat; dogcatcher; donutwatch; kennellicense; kitty; kittyping; nannystate; revenuetickets; vikingkitty
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When cats are outlawed, only outlaws will have cats..............
To: Red Badger
What if they are indoor cats?
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posted on
11/05/2009 11:48:48 AM PST
by
Blogger
To: Red Badger
The solution was very simple:
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posted on
11/05/2009 11:49:28 AM PST
by
randog
(Tap into America!)
To: Blogger
Indoor, outdorr, katz iz katz....................
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posted on
11/05/2009 11:50:47 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
To: Red Badger
Not amused:
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posted on
11/05/2009 11:51:25 AM PST
by
AreaMan
To: Red Badger
‘Richards said at the town meeting that she now plans to put her house up for sale and move to a “more cat-friendly community,”’
CL. Sorry, but we running out of places. :(
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posted on
11/05/2009 11:52:30 AM PST
by
BGHater
("real price of every thing ... is the toil and trouble of acquiring it")
To: Red Badger; Tijeras_Slim
How long before the Crazy Cat Lady has the SWAT team in a 12-hour standoff outside her house?
To: Red Badger
You'll have to grab my cats from my cold dead hands. < /crazy cat lady >
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posted on
11/05/2009 11:53:41 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
To: Slings and Arrows; Revolting cat!
Tough on crime law, no cathouses!!!
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posted on
11/05/2009 11:54:23 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
To: Red Badger
Every cat who has kittens will require the owners to get a kennel license.
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posted on
11/05/2009 11:55:20 AM PST
by
jacknhoo
(Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
To: Red Badger
which will impose a $100 per day fine for violations Why not just confiscate the animals if there is "abuse" in having more than 3 without a license?
Follow the money, more revenue tickets.
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posted on
11/05/2009 11:56:11 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
To: Red Badger
My town requires a license for one cat, now if we don’t send vacination updates and keep renewing the license they fine us. If the cat dies we have to prove that. Government is wonderful.
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posted on
11/05/2009 11:56:22 AM PST
by
Williams
(It's the policies, stupid)
To: Red Badger
There non-political solution:
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posted on
11/05/2009 11:56:37 AM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(A trade: Conservative Anglicans for Liberal Catholics and a heretic to be named later.)
To: Red Badger
Of course...worry about cats while paying extortion-level property taxes for your patch of grass.
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posted on
11/05/2009 11:57:30 AM PST
by
who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
To: jacknhoo
More money for cat abortions (and yet people do them) or neutering.
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posted on
11/05/2009 11:57:44 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
To: Williams
If the cat dies we have to prove that. Government is wonderful. And what if the cat runs away, do you still have to pay for a license every year?
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posted on
11/05/2009 11:58:53 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
To: Red Badger
Do people own cats? We have three, but I wouldn’t venture to say that we own them. More likely, they own us.
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posted on
11/05/2009 11:59:09 AM PST
by
pallis
To: Red Badger
Kitty tracked down the "Local Man" complainer...
To: Red Badger
Preposterous. You don’t own cats. Dogs have owners. Cats have ‘staff’.
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posted on
11/05/2009 12:00:08 PM PST
by
Hegemony Cricket
(The emperor has no pedigree.)
To: Williams
If the cat dies we have to prove that. Good thing Erwin Schrodinger doesn't live in your town.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger's_cat
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