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by tigers9 on July 7, 2009
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Gee the gov intervention in our lives and aniamls is becoming worse than what communists did, city bureocrats will inspect to see if u can have more than 6 animals?
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http://www.readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=147084
Proposal limiting pets in Reading advances
By Don Spatz
Reading Eagle
7/7/2009
- A City Council committee on Monday agreed to a proposal that would limit city residents to no more than six pets - not counting fish - unless they apply for a $50 city permit.
To get that permit, the residents would have to let the city inspect their homes to see if they're appropriate for housing more than six animals.
"It's so we don't have six Great Danes in a town house," Barrie Pease told council's Public Safety Committee.
Pease is chairman of the city Animal Control Board that's recommending the change.
The permits would have to be renewed annually. Renewals would cost $25.
The proposal also calls for a $75 fee for a permit for exotic animals like large snakes or other non-native animals.
The Animal Rescue League of Berks County enforces the city animal ordinances. A few weeks ago it took 22 dogs from a home on South 181/2 Street, leaving four dogs there, Executive Director Harry D. Brown III told the committee.
The pet permit proposal is taken from similar measures in Allentown, Harrisburg, Lancaster and Bethlehem.
Wyomissing, Sinking Spring and Shillington have similar limits on the number of pets.
The committee agreed to make some changes and forward the proposal to the entire council.
If the proposal passes, residents would have three months to comply, but Pease said residents with more than six pets would not necessarily have to get rid of any.
If they apply for a permit, they can have more than six pets - if the city believes they can handle them, Pease said.
But the proposal will be rewritten to allow the city to confiscate pets if it determines that someone temporarily relocated pets to skirt the ordinance rather than bring them back.
The proposal also would give police authority to seek a search warrant to enter a home to investigate.
The same proposal also would place tight restrictions on any dog that bites or attacks anyone without provocation, or has a history of it.
The city's former dangerous dog ordinance focused on breeds deemed dangerous, but Commonwealth Court last year threw it out.
Contact Don Spatz: 610-371-5027 or dspatz@readingeagle.com.
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You have got to be kidding! While Reading is being overrun by drug dealers and gangs,City Council works diligently on a law restricting how many animals can be kept as pets? Please, shoot me now!. Oops! I didn't mean that literally.....
COMMENT BY RESPONSIBLE AT 7/7/2009 7:56:59 AM
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And, when will they finally work on doing something about the number of people/families living in apartments and houses in Reading? Perhaps they can make more money making multifamily apartment/house dwellers take out permits. Oh, that's right, there is regulation on the books for this issue...but its not enforced...... Not to worry doggies, they won't enforce the new restrictions either!
COMMENT BY RESPONSIBLE AT 7/7/2009 8:12:34 AM
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I think the limit for pets in any home should be 2.. its crazy, People that have more then 2 pets in a home are crazy.. most now days cant even feed themselves.. then the pets suffer..and end up at the shelter. Lets get real people its not a control thing on your life its just a matter of common sense ..and it seems from the comments posted already none of you have any.
COMMENT BY USA AT 7/7/2009 8:31:28 AM
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Hmmm, you draw the line at 2 pets USA? How’d you come to that conclusion? Is that the amount you personally could handle? Talk about a subjective opinion being posed as ultimate law or common sense as you put it. Call me crazy please. And yeah let’s get real - some folks can actually care for a great number of animals and for themselves at the same time. There’s no art to it, it’s called compassion, of which it sounds you haven’t any USA. For a city or state or federal government to be telling the people how many pets they can or can’t have is freaking ludicrous. For anyone who defends this cause as some sort of justice while imposing their own viewpoint and reduced number, is even far more absurd. Big government is on the rise. If you’re okay with that, I feel sorry for you.
COMMENT BY MISTYMOUNTAINHOP AT 7/7/2009 9:54:56 AM
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They really aren't "limiting" the amount of pets you can have in your home. If you pay for the permit and prove you are capable, there will be no problem. I think it's a good idea. It will allow the hard working and "compassionate" people who can afford and handle this many pets to afford the fee and keep their pets. For the people who can't afford or care for that many pets, it will help curtail some of the issues the pet agencies are dealing with today. Yes.. there are more pressing issues in the city (the country for that fact), but they have to start somewhere.
COMMENT BY LA AT 7/7/2009 10:29:39 AM
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