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The Statham, Georgia, city council has barred residents from owning more than three dogs. Anyone who wishes to own more will be treated as a kennel and subject to all the regulations and inspections that kennels must comply with.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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  1. invisible furry hand

    He’s been criticised for backdating his posts. He’s been criticised for SF’ing his links. He’s been criticised for not having a surname. But by God, Charles Oliver makes an effort with his alt-text.

    1. mnarayan

      He’s also been criticized for not having alt-text many a time.

    2. Auric Demonocles

      Charles Oliver makes an effort with his alt-text.

      Everything else is optional.

      Though I hope he isn’t suggesting that the officer was subject to the high capacity magazine ban, because let’s be honest, he had an exemption for that.

      1. UnCivilServant

        No, some of the dogs would get to cover before he could reload enough times for the average cop accuracy to have hit them.

        1. Scarecrow Repair

          Don’t they have full auto M4s in their squad cars?

          1. UnCivilServant

            He’s a motorcycle cop. No squad car.

            1. Bryan C

              The obvious answer is to equip cycle cops with fragmentation grenades for urban animal control.

  2. Live Free or Diet

    What, no comments about “going to the dogs?”

  3. If you have more than three pet dogs and can’t afford the onerous fees of running a kennel, Stratham Police does off a wrong door, no-knock raid for free.

    1. If you have more than three pet dogs and can’t afford the onerous fees of running a kennel, Stratham Police does offer a wrong door, no-knock raid for free.

      (There really was no need for the Freudian slip, was there?)

  4. “We had one person who ran a hobby kennel, and he was raising the dogs to fight,” [the mayor] said.

    Right, because that one person is everybody. Collective guilt FTL.

    Aside: I used to live in a city that had what was nicknamed the “crazy-cat-lady ordinance,” which forbade anyone to have more than four cats.

    1. Having more than four pretty much defines “crazy cat lady.” I wouldn’t want one for a neighbor, but I don’t think I could support such an ordinance, either.

      Someone in my dating history recently doubled her dog count from three to six. For all her other faults, she does take reasonably good care of them.

      1. RBS

        I used to have a neighbor that not only had multiple cats but also left food outside for all the neighborhood strays. My dog used to hate those things.

  5. Statham is in my general area. I really wouldn’t put it past their police to simply shoot excess dogs, now that they have a pretext.

  6. Floridian

    In Georgia? Really? What about all the hunters who use dogs. How did this ever pass?

  7. UnCivilServant

    Wait…

    Dogs have litters. If your unspayed bitch gives birth, you’re running a kennel?

    1. Depending on the state and the circumstances, you may have to pay a higher licensing fee for an un-neutered animal or even obtain a breeder’s permit.

      1. UnCivilServant

        License? for a mutt?

        That’s inane.

    2. Tonio

      War on bitches.

      1. You forgot the comma.

  8. Rich

    He said the ordinance bans those hobby kennels and has “bite” to be able to punish violators.

    What a “wag”!

  9. Tonio

    This sort of limit is fairly common in cities and towns. Not defending it, but not high on my list of priorities for things to get outraged about.

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