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- From: ramirez@julia.math.ucla.edu (Alice Ramirez)
- Subject: formerly (Will they Ever Learn) now City Pet Limits
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.211320.3481@math.ucla.edu>
- Sender: news@math.ucla.edu
- Organization: UCLA Mathematics Department
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 21:13:20 GMT
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- In L.A. , The City decrees 3 animals per household. However, enforcing
- this ordinance is well-nigh impossible. Probably more easy to do with
- dogs, which tend to be conspicuous creatures who need to go out than
- with cats.
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- I mean, unless you are creating a nuisance or very conspicuous in the
- number of cats you have lounging around your place, how is anyone really
- to know? Back when I had six, while The Elders were still alive, I'd
- only let 3 go out at a time. Now, what with the increase in traffic and
- general urban nastiness, I don't let any of them out. Who's going to
- know HOW many live in any given house? I think these ordinances are in
- place so a city can cover its behind and do something if someone is
- creating a serious nuisace. (Like my crazy cousin in San Juan P.R. who
- is alleged to have 800 cats). Otherwise, my city at least, has other,
- more important priorities than harrassing some otherwise law-abiding soul
- who happens to have 5 or 10 too many cats.
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- (And at the risk of being flamed, let me say that I'd find a neighbor with
- 10 cats to be less of a nuisance than a neighbor with the same number of
- children!)
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