Dog Licensing Law On Governor Brown’s Desk

October 3, 2011 8:43 AM

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A new bill sitting on the governor’s desk would fine dog owners for not licensing a pet.

The bill also requires pet stores and rescue groups that sell dogs to submit reports to local licensing agencies.

The fine for not registering your dog would be $100.

People who support the bill say it will generate $3 million annually in Sacramento County alone if only half of the pet owners registered their dogs.

“If we had something like this that required mandatory reporting of sales, we could go after the licensing revenue which comes directly back to the shelter. It would help us with taking care of the animals and also hiring other employees here,” said Dave Dickinson of the Sacramento County Animal Shelter.

According to the Humane Society only about 16-percent of dogs in California are licensed.

Dog Licensing Law On Governor Browns Desk

rmcsticks

cbs fix your site
rmcsticks

cbs who works on your site a 6 year old
KLiK

how about my unlicenced gun to shoot the roaming animals!

Larry Bob

you should not use a gun

my neighbor hates the cats in her gardens and we have several dozens feral cats. She uses a slingshot with ice cubes to knock them out

Matt

I doubt that…she just talking chit.

mbee

Folks, this is about money and ripping off the taxpayers, 3 million more for the shelter when they already have enough to operate? How about licenses to breath,. licenses to drink, license to eat, that would fund the country , tens of millions of dollars to the union and bureaucrats so they can live the high life while those peons the taxpayers live in a mud hut. The license fee is already way overpriced and now they want to hold a gun to your head so you will pay up.
bill

Never ceases to amaze me how government officials never tell you what the purpose of their “licensing” will do for the public. All they ever talk about is the “revenue” it will generate!

Pet licensing is a scam just like marriage licenses!
Randy

When will the people finally wake up to excessive taxation. Better to bring back King George. Less taxation, more freedom, and just as currupt.
Bolwa Annifreeze

Brilliant Liberals at Work Yet Again – another fee . . . another payment to the government to squander. Less dogs will be adopted, less people will want the government ‘regulating’ their pet dog and what is the real result – less dogs have homes. Animal control is not so great at doing their job in the first place.

Of course, the fee will have to increase again to pay for all the new non-workers – but at least we get a few illiterates off the street into a government job. We have so many barking, run around loose dogs in my neighborhood – I would like to see a law that starts paying me by the hide to dispose of them.
Bob

Great another way to get more people who can’t afford the cost of a license to abandon their pets.I do think that more people should be more responsible for their pets.But maybe instead of constantly making new ways to get money why don’t they just start to really enforce the laws we have now.Make a law grab what money you can then blame everyone else for goverment being broke and then make a new law for more money.NEVER FIX ANYTHING
TLordaGama

Dogs need to be spayed and neutered, they need to be up to date with their shots, with an ID on their collar. A license has always been just a way for the county to get more money, ie taxes, which is what it is, a tax on your dog!
Well tell Jerry that means the dogs will have to go on unemployment in order to pay for their license! Responsible dog owners take care of their pets, a extra tag around their neck does help any dogs.
I might add Parvo is rampant because people fail to get their puppies their shots!
Larry Bob

Note P00P tax
So will this add jobs and cleanup similar to the dog p00p tax we have now in EG because of people not picking up after their dogs at the parks?
Because there’s still a lot of p00p at the parks…

Out of the five dog neighbors I have only one is licensed. I doubt the bull owners want anyone knowing.
jackie

Time for a dog licenseing protest in front of the state capital. Remember a few years back when they wanted to raise the license fees outrageously and require a license for every critter ya owned(except cats) and hundreds of us protested why discriminate against unlicensed dogs when kitty critters do not have to be licensed at all, NOT FAIR!
wilson

Dog Licensing is just one more form of government finding a method of taxing individuals to suck the life out of the economy. I think we should protest ALL licensing fees, etc, that go to the government and make them call a tax a tax! The CA legislature has lied to us for decades by claiming the taxes they pass are not taxes. Impeach them all. Civil Disobedience NOW!
dan

Give me a break.
Here we go again the state of Ca taking more and more from us
this is a new tax