Sanfrancisco considering banning the sales of all pets.

[Ryo Hazuki]

http://www.ctnow.com/news/la-me-goldfish-20110627,0,7271888.story

"The proposal started with dogs and cats, expanded to birds and hamsters, and now includes any animal that walks, flies, swims, crawls or slithers — unless you plan to eat it."

Please don't be too lazy to click the link and read the story.


What do you think about this?

[Hybrid]

Pets play an important role in the human psyche. Pets can comfort. Pets can listen. Pets can protect. Pets can also make us healthier. Most importantly, pets never judge.

Yes, I think puppy mills and kitty factories are terrible, but I think there is a line that they are crossing. Instead of puppies from puppy mills, what if they got them from breeders? Is that still illegal?

Sometimes I think people just go too far with things...

[BlackedOut]

Well, First attempting to ban video games to minors, and now it seems like they are trying to ban a species, wow society.

[+ / –]

"The proposal started with dogs and cats, expanded to birds and hamsters, and now includes any animal that walks, flies, swims, crawls or slithers — unless you plan to eat it."

Well, looks like Asians like me don't have to worry about a damn thing. Good luck with your pet issues!

[Hybrid]

Well, looks like Asians like me don't have to worry about a damn thing. Good luck with your pet issues!

Holy shit.

[Benjamin]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but there wouldn't be anything stopping you from going to Los Angeles and buying a puppy and coming back, right? So it's really not a big deal (unless if it expanded into other cities).

And I've always thought that any pet other than a dog or cat is just stupid. If the pet can't roam your house or yard, it's pointless. So if this law didn't include cats or dogs I wouldn't have any problems with it.

[+ / –]

Any pet that isn't a dog or cat is stupid? You have a boring life.

Also, a boring dinner menu.

[DaMU]

Misguided liberal piety masquerading as virtue. There are a thousand issues more pressing to the moral needs of man than the selling of animals as pets.

[Vriska]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but there wouldn't be anything stopping you from going to Oakland and buying a puppy and coming back, right? So it's really not a big deal (unless if it expanded into other cities).

And I've always thought that any pet other than a dog or cat is just stupid. If the pet can't roam your house or yard, it's pointless. So if this law didn't include cats or dogs I wouldn't have any problems with it.

FIFY. San Francisco is in it's own county apart from the rest of the bay area. I doubt this would spread.

However, upon realizing that this is done to help shelters instead of banning shelters from selling, I'm for this bill. I don't have much sympathy for the animal making factories, but for the abandoned pets I do.

[Benjamin]

Any pet that isn't a dog or cat is stupid? You have a boring life.

Also, a boring dinner menu.

Or maybe I don't get the point of keeping a bird locked up in a cage for its entire life.

[travz21]

I don't get people that want or already own pets.

[Blackee Dammet]

Morons.

[ThaHandyman]

Misguided liberal piety masquerading as virtue. There are a thousand issues more pressing to the moral needs of man than the selling of animals as pets.

This guy, he has wisdom.

[Dean]

Misguided liberal piety masquerading as virtue. There are a thousand issues more pressing to the moral needs of man than the selling of animals as pets.
And it doesn't necessarily detract from our ability to deal with those things as well.

[Vriska]

And it doesn't necessarily detract from our ability to deal with those things as well.

+1.

Constant Vigilance.

[+ / –]

+1.

Constant Vigilance.

+1 for the Mad Eye Moody/Barty Crouch Jr. reference.

[Louis]

With all of the things a city like San Francisco has to be worried about, including the certainty of an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 or greater within the next 30 years...they're concerned about selling pets? Well, looks like their priorities are real straight here...

[+ / –]

Well, looks like their priorities are real straight here...

Your San Francisco pun is quite amusing, even if unintentional.

[Louis]

Your San Francisco pun is quite amusing, even if unintentional.

:lol: Nice.

[DaMU]

And it doesn't necessarily detract from our ability to deal with those things as well.

No, it necessarily does. It's energy and attention placed where energy and attention is not of an urgent nature. Energy (via activism or attention) is therefore diverted from one subject to another. Whether or not the detraction is of a critical nature is the question worth asking, but the presence of detraction is immutably true.

[hybridsoldier1989]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but there wouldn't be anything stopping you from going to Los Angeles and buying a puppy and coming back, right? So it's really not a big deal (unless if it expanded into other cities).

And I've always thought that any pet other than a dog or cat is just stupid. If the pet can't roam your house or yard, it's pointless. So if this law didn't include cats or dogs I wouldn't have any problems with it.

Pets can still be soothing for us.

My girlfriend owns a guinea pig and he is just as cool as having a boring ass lazy cat, if not cooler. We let him roam around the living room when we are home and he is very loving actually and enjoys being petted.

And since we bought him, she has been far less stressed out about school. Most apartments don't allow dogs so what are we to do?

The relationship between man and pet animals is a good one in my opinion and there is a whole lot of mutual benefit that comes from loving and feeling needed.

As for the law, I get the cats and dogs sale ban to curb pet mills, but rodents, reptiles, and fish? FISH?! THat's too extreme in my book. But then again, it's SF.