Feel free to laugh your ass(es) off, but I seriously cannot understand WTF this section of the city's municipal code means. (Maybe I should've read it BEFORE I took my sleeping pills. 
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HUH?
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Can someone translate this city ordinance wording for me?
- Thread starter MoodyBlues
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DragonSlayer95
Resident Air Bender
Keep in mind I've been up since 6am 
but what it sounds like
Say for instance, I'm not allowed to have 3 or more cats that's older than 4 months if I live 250 feet or closer to a non cat owner
That's what it sounds like
but what it sounds likeSay for instance, I'm not allowed to have 3 or more cats that's older than 4 months if I live 250 feet or closer to a non cat owner
That's what it sounds like
DragonSlayer95
Resident Air Bender
huh
Android Expert
It means that you can not have more than 3 grown cats that are in a neighborhood or city that is occupied by humans who's homes are in close proximity to each other i.e..250 feet ...by the age cut off (they are referring to the exception of kittens from a litter)..if you lived in a rural area such as a farm it would not apply....It's just "legaleeze" for...We don't want the crazy cat lady hoarding cats and letting them run wild in the neighborhood...
but ..if you keep more than 3 inside your home as long as it's at least 250 feet from your neighbor you are fine..
but ..if you keep more than 3 inside your home as long as it's at least 250 feet from your neighbor you are fine..
mysticspiral
Android Expert
ROFLMAOFeel free to laugh your ass(es) off, but I seriously cannot understand WTF this section of the city's municipal code means. (Maybe I should've read it BEFORE I took my sleeping pills.
HUH?
Is this seriously for real ? Whoever had written this and agreed to this being a proper city code . Is most definetley trying to , well I won't say what first came to mind . But I will say they must have one to many . My goodnesss .
What kind of "cats" is this order referring to? - tigers, lions?
zuben el genub
Extreme Android User
Means they don't want breeders. If your cat has kittens, you have to give the kittens up.
We had HOAs here that only allowed 2 animals - 2 dogs or 2 cats or one of each. No ferrets.
Told one developer that I was NOT giving up one cat to buy his stupid house.
They would have loved us. At one time 5 cats (all neutered and all indoors) 5 ferrets, 3 cockatiels, about 15 gerbils. Daughter divorced and moved back in. I'm guilty of 3 cats.
We had HOAs here that only allowed 2 animals - 2 dogs or 2 cats or one of each. No ferrets.
Told one developer that I was NOT giving up one cat to buy his stupid house.
They would have loved us. At one time 5 cats (all neutered and all indoors) 5 ferrets, 3 cockatiels, about 15 gerbils. Daughter divorced and moved back in. I'm guilty of 3 cats.
So many stray cats running feral in the streets, and this city is worried about people having too many pet cats???
Good Grief
Good Grief
Where is this? LA - Moody's city? I know some countries and cities have laws about keeping dangerous animals at home. I'm sure that came up in the UK becuase some family was keeping an ex-circus tiger in a spare room. And I think China has a law that forbids keeping pandas at home.
Yes, it's a REAL code! And you have no idea how relieved I am to get up this morning and see that I'm not the only one confused by it. 
It's in my city, Arcadia: convoluted legalese pets code.
It's in my city, Arcadia: convoluted legalese pets code.Huh, I see what you're saying but I don't think that's quite it. Read that last part of the code again: "...other than a dwelling in use or occupied by the owner of such cats."
No kidding. In fact, two of my cats...er, I mean, two of my HYPOTHETICAL cats...were ferals I trapped and brought inside. I mean hypothetically, of course. Because with those two, plus my mom's two, plus my other two--all of whom are, hypothetically, of course, rescues--that would be more than three adult cats.So many stray cats running feral in the streets, and this city is worried about people having too many pet cats???
Good Grief
But let's pretend I actually had six adult rescued cats in my house, my vet would be taking good care of them, they'd all be spayed/neutered, vaccinated, microchipped, etc. Of course, that's all hypothetical. 
So many stray cats running feral in the streets, and this city is worried about people having too many pet cats???
Good Grief
Unfortunately, from what I've seen of crazy cat ladies, they add to the feral population when they can't feed them all, and by letting them roam not spayed or neutered.
Not sure how they arrived at the top number there lol.
Not THIS crazy cat lady. I mean, this crazy HYPOTHETICAL cat lady.
I've been adopting/rescuing dogs and cats for 40+ years. Mine are all very well cared for (ask my vet!), spayed/neutered, vaccinated, and stay inside. Well, my dogs (usually Great Danes) would go outside to play and potty, but never unsupervised even though my yards have always been fenced.
It makes me sick when I see REAL crazy cat ladies (and gentlemen) who meant well but ended up in way over their heads, with sick and dying cats living in filth. I'll never let that happen to me. Instead of adopting every single homeless pet I'd like, I donate to SPCALA and other organizations, so other people can do the adopting.
Down the street from where I grew up, and I mean just a few houses down, the crazy lady had over 300 living in her garage before we could get the city to step in.
I've never met a crazy cat gentleman. Though dumbass dog guys acting like that, yeah.
I've never met a crazy cat gentleman. Though dumbass dog guys acting like that, yeah.
OMG.
Yeah, crazy cat gentlemen exist, too. I watch Hoarders and Hoarding: Buried Alive (makes me feel MUCH better about the less-than-perfectly-neat state of my house!), and they've had both male and female animal hoarders. Including this one guy whose house was completely overtaken by rats. I mean pet rats...thousands of them.
Speed Daemon
Android Expert
Looks to me like if you want to have a lot of cats, you have to keep them in your house where you live. But if a mama cat goes out to the garage to have her kittens, that's not going to get the cat's owner into trouble.
Or in other words, people can't run kitten factories in outbuildings like sheds and garages. If you've ever seen an expos
Maybe that's it. I'm still not sure, though. I thought maybe re-reading that convoluted paragraph again today--while not on sleeping pills--would make it clearer...but it didn't! Your take on it certainly sounds reasonable, though.
jefboyardee
Extreme Android User
One thing I hate, it’s maintaining three cats...
It means that you can not have more than 3 grown cats that are in a neighborhood or city that is occupied by humans who's homes are in close proximity to each other i.e..250 feet ...by the age cut off (they are referring to the exception of kittens from a litter)..if you lived in a rural area such as a farm it would not apply....It's just "legaleeze" for...We don't want the crazy cat lady hoarding cats and letting them run wild in the neighborhood...
I think that this is exactly what it says, and the last bit is an exemption for pet shops.
Speed Daemon
Android Expert
It seemed like the wording of the ordinance was intended to let people have as many pets as they wanted while outlawing kitten mills or other abusive situations. I'm not a lawyer though.
In the posh Chicago suburb where my mom used to live, they don't allow any household to have more than 3 dogs, period. That law is obviously to "keep the riff-raff out" in this village that used to be home to some of my most financially challenged friends. It's a different place now.