Why isn't there a test requirement to get a license to keep or handle a dog?

[Anonymous]

Question in title.

[Anonymous]

Someone from the r/dogfree subreddit is really on fire tonight.

[Anonymous]

Same question could be asked for kids.

[Anonymous]

I know some shelters make you fill out paperwork that includes personal references they actually check.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Same question could be asked for kids.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Same question could be asked for kids.

I agree in theory but as a practical matter, most people have kids "the old fashioned way" and the only ways to prevent them from having them from becoming parents would be draconian at best (forced sterilization? taking people's babies away? there's no reasonable way to screen people for parents in a free society).

But adopting a dog requires some level of administrative activity in most situations, and it would be fairly easy to legally mandate a screening the same way we do for getting a car. And it has the same reasoning -- the goal is to ensure people understand baseline safety for handling a dog so as to keep other people and dogs safe.

[Anonymous]

Yes 23:22, a license to own and keep pet just as to drive

[Anonymous]

there is a license requirement in DC for dogs

[Anonymous]

They do need to be licensed in most places. The goal is to make rescue dogs easy to adopt not hard.

I would fully support better licensing and checking of all breeders. The laws need to be changed though so its illegal to keep dogs in crates 24-7 ship puppies from point A to B etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:there is a license requirement in DC for dogs

It doesn't require you take a test to demonstrate basic knowledge (and agreement to) laws and standards for handling dogs.

I would LOVE if the people in my neighborhood had to take a short quiz before adopting a dog to understand where dogs are allowed and not allowed, when dogs have to be leashed, what leashes are appropriate, and then agree to take their dog to a training school until the dog knows not to jump on, bark at, lick, or sniff strangers on the street.

I really like dogs but there are a lot of crappy owners around and their ill behaved dogs make it bad for everyone, including other dogs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Same question could be asked for kids.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Same question could be asked for kids.

It's a shame when people compare children to dogs in any way. But let's imagine that it's a fair question. Did you ever stop to think that if your parents would have had to be licensed to have a child that you yourself might not be here?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Same question could be asked for kids.

It's a shame when people compare children to dogs in any way. But let's imagine that it's a fair question. Did you ever stop to think that if your parents would have had to be licensed to have a child that you yourself might not be here?

If I wasn’t alive, I wouldn’t have occasion to think about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:there is a license requirement in DC for dogs

I love it when batshit crazy dog people come in here to compare my child to their dog. It's my fave. Just shows the level of mental illness when it comes to their dogs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Same question could be asked for kids.

It's a shame when people compare children to dogs in any way. But let's imagine that it's a fair question. Did you ever stop to think that if your parents would have had to be licensed to have a child that you yourself might not be here?

If I wasn’t alive, I wouldn’t have occasion to think about it.

Smart answer. But having to have a license before having a child might have affected you in someway. Who's to say that you would be approved to have a child.