keeping of animals

[dntd]

My city's by law has it written keeping of animals not a pet by-law, the humane society said chickens are not pets nor are my meat rabbit, though both are not on the banned animals, how can they say what is considered a pet if the by law has animals listed not pets? Even so is there any fighting it? We can't keep animals outside, so they are house inside with time spent outside. The complaint the nieghbors gave was that we had a rooster, not that it was noisy, two doors down they didn't even know we had one until they saw it outside walking around in our back yard, he crows a tiny bit in the morning around 730-800 and just a few other times he cries at the most once every 6 hours but only in our house, we don't have the windows open yet or often( seasonal allergies), unless we let him out many visitors( including the city) have had no idea we even had him! I do have a back up home for him just incase but we love him so much we really don't want to part with him. how do we go about arguing our case? as the call was malicous intent the humane society still had to come, also they felt the city had to be contacted grrr!


All Arachnida (such as tarantulas)
All Monotremata (such as platypuses and echidnas)
All Marsupialia (such as kangaroos and opossums)
All non-human Primates (such as gorillas and monkeys)
All Felidae, except the domestic cat
All Canidae, except the domestic dog
All Mustelidae (such as skunks, weasels, otters, and badgers)
except the domestic ferret All Ursidae (bears) All Hyaenidae (such as hyaenas and aardwolves) All Edentata (such as anteaters, sloths and armadillos) All Artiodactyla (such as goats, sheep, pigs and cattle)
except pot bellied pigs All Perissodactyla (such as the domestic horse, mule and ass) All ProbosCidea (elephants) All Chiroptera (bats) All Otariidae (such as seal ions and fur seals) All Odobenidae (walrus) All Phocidae (earless seals) All Sirenia (such as manattees and dugongs) All Mysticeti (such as white whales and grey whales) All Odontoceti (such as dolphins, sperm whales and belugas) All Sphenisciformes (penguins) All Struthioniformes (ostriches) All Rheiformes (rheas) All Casuariiformes (cassowaries and emus) All Apterygiformes (kiwis) All Gaviiformes (loons) All Anseriformes (such as ducks, geese and swans)
Any animal, bird, amphibian or reptile other than a domestic dog which is not housed within the residential unit of the owner of the animal

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

The Humane Society does not determine law or ordinance; it is not their place to determine whether your chickens and rabbits are pets or not. If the city's ordinances do not say they are illegal, they are allowed. (I am assuming that the list of animals your post provided are those that are not allowed, and that the fact that they went into such explicit detail, that there is not a provision saying that unless something is specifically allowed they it is disallowed).

Print out a copy of the relevant city code (not just the list of animals) and keep it readily available to show anyone who questions them. Should the city show up, show the code to them and ask them to specifically show you the provisions you are violating. As for your rooster, he looks to be legal.

 

[dntd]

The part I didn't include of the begining animal by-law as it didn't apply because it was related to animal husbandry of banned animals( only on agraculture can they be bred). I did print the by law along with the chicken family name, I just wish the neighbors would leave me alone!