varusword75 wrote:
They have this thing where they can cut the vocal chords on a dog to keep them from barking non-stop.
That seems pretty extreme. I agree that you'd think owners would manage their dogs better, but I'm also not a big fan of some of the knee-jerk pet laws that end out being passed because of those who don't make any effort to. My mom has licenses for all her dogs *and* spends the money to get them fitted with ID chips. Despite this, when one of her dogs somehow managed to escape one day, the city never bothered to check the license tag, nor look for a chip and never contacted her to tell her they'd picked up the dog. After looking around the neighborhood and then calling the damn pound to ask if they'd picked up her dog (they said they hadn't), she decided not to believe them and went down there physically to look. Sure enough, there's her dog at the pound, in a separate section of the pound about 20 minutes away from being neutered.
Apparently, they decided to "process" the dog first, which included automatically neutering it, before checking to see that it had breeder tags and was a champion stock stud dog.
I just spit water on my new cell phone. Thanks, Elinda. I'm rolling now.
