6/28/01 CARY'S TWO DOG LIMIT "UNCONSTITUTIONAL" - DA SAYS

I appreciate such references. It's been a concern to me.

We live in the city of West Lafayette, IN. There is(/was?) no limit on
number of dogs kept here. For the county (outside the city), there is
a three dog limit.

A couple years ago I was letting my four dogs run outside the police
station and the animal control officer (who I'd met a few times) came
over to give me a friendly notice that they were pushing a limit on the
number of dogs a person could keep without a breeder's/kennel license.
He assured me that mine would be "grandfathered" but I probed for a
reason for the change.

There hadn't been any problems that such a change would solve, but
someone thought it was important to be consistent with the county laws.
I asserted that I thought it was really dumb to make new laws to handle
non-problems, and that it was even dumber to require breeder/kennel
licenses to keep neutered canine family members in the house.

Fortunately I have yet to see such a limit hit the books.
http://ordlink.com/cgi-bin/query.pl?...sh&det ail=no
Unfortunately, it is no longer an immediate issue now that we're a
three-dog family.

I recommend that anyone who does have more than a couple dogs register
those dogs consistently. (Do it anyway, but especially in this case.)
That's almost always our first stop after we get checkups each year.
Once (after about five years) a clerk told me that she'd register my
four dogs but that it was illegal to have that many. (I pushed her to
provide me with a reference and she was unable so I spoke with the
mayor who admitted there was no such rule.)

Regardless, I think that having a record of compliance with the regs
is a good way to head off problems with (selective) enforcement of any
new regulations that appear.

--kyler

6/28/01 CARY'S TWO DOG LIMIT "UNCONSTITUTIONAL" - DA SAYS

I appreciate such references. It's been a concern to me.

We live in the city of West Lafayette, IN. There is(/was?) no limit on
number of dogs kept here. For the county (outside the city), there is
a three dog limit.

A couple years ago I was letting my four dogs run outside the police
station and the animal control officer (who I'd met a few times) came
over to give me a friendly notice that they were pushing a limit on the
number of dogs a person could keep without a breeder's/kennel license.
He assured me that mine would be "grandfathered" but I probed for a
reason for the change.

There hadn't been any problems that such a change would solve, but
someone thought it was important to be consistent with the county laws.
I asserted that I thought it was really dumb to make new laws to handle
non-problems, and that it was even dumber to require breeder/kennel
licenses to keep neutered canine family members in the house.

Fortunately I have yet to see such a limit hit the books.
http://ordlink.com/cgi-bin/query.pl?...sh&det ail=no
Unfortunately, it is no longer an immediate issue now that we're a
three-dog family.

I recommend that anyone who does have more than a couple dogs register
those dogs consistently. (Do it anyway, but especially in this case.)
That's almost always our first stop after we get checkups each year.
Once (after about five years) a clerk told me that she'd register my
four dogs but that it was illegal to have that many. (I pushed her to
provide me with a reference and she was unable so I spoke with the
mayor who admitted there was no such rule.)

Regardless, I think that having a record of compliance with the regs
is a good way to head off problems with (selective) enforcement of any
new regulations that appear.

--kyler

6/28/01 CARY'S TWO DOG LIMIT "UNCONSTITUTIONAL" - DA SAYS

I appreciate such references. It's been a concern to me.

We live in the city of West Lafayette, IN. There is(/was?) no limit on
number of dogs kept here. For the county (outside the city), there is
a three dog limit.

A couple years ago I was letting my four dogs run outside the police
station and the animal control officer (who I'd met a few times) came
over to give me a friendly notice that they were pushing a limit on the
number of dogs a person could keep without a breeder's/kennel license.
He assured me that mine would be "grandfathered" but I probed for a
reason for the change.

There hadn't been any problems that such a change would solve, but
someone thought it was important to be consistent with the county laws.
I asserted that I thought it was really dumb to make new laws to handle
non-problems, and that it was even dumber to require breeder/kennel
licenses to keep neutered canine family members in the house.

Fortunately I have yet to see such a limit hit the books.
http://ordlink.com/cgi-bin/query.pl?...sh&det ail=no
Unfortunately, it is no longer an immediate issue now that we're a
three-dog family.

I recommend that anyone who does have more than a couple dogs register
those dogs consistently. (Do it anyway, but especially in this case.)
That's almost always our first stop after we get checkups each year.
Once (after about five years) a clerk told me that she'd register my
four dogs but that it was illegal to have that many. (I pushed her to
provide me with a reference and she was unable so I spoke with the
mayor who admitted there was no such rule.)

Regardless, I think that having a record of compliance with the regs
is a good way to head off problems with (selective) enforcement of any
new regulations that appear.

--kyler