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[quote=Anonymous]Here is my radical notion: you can have dogs in cities and dense suburbs, but we should cap how many are allowed, total.

You should have to get a license in order to own a dog within city limits. If the city had reached its allotted quota for dog adoptions for the year, you would not be granted a license and would have to try renewing your application in another year. Perhaps there would be a lottery system for licenses to make it as fair as possible. Limits would be created based on resources, including parks and sidewalks. Exemptions would be available for trained service animals (NOT emotional support dogs -- you can always get an emotional support cat or rabbit or bird, which stays indoors).

No one could have more than one dog.

To get a license, you'd have to pass a certification that showed you had basic knowledge not only of caring for a dog but also of legal requirements for ownership, including leash laws, where dogs can legally pee and defecate, your obligations for cleaning up after your dog, and applicable noise ordinances that applied to barking/whining/howling dogs. You would also sign an agreement stating you would not

All dogs would have to go through approved training courses and be signed off on by a dog trainer. A dog flagged as a potential danger would have to successfully repeat the course and if it failed a second time, its owners license would be withdrawn.

I know this will never happen but I think it's the solution. The problem is not that there are dogs. The problem is that there are too many dogs, and too many of their owners are irresponsible or negligent.[/quote]

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