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QuietPlease wrote:
I think the intentions of this new code are all GOOD. The County has had a horrible time trying to control the fighting roosters and noise. The DA and Courts will not cooperate and continue to make it easier for the rooster fighters to do whatever they want. Very simply, the current codes make it an impossible situation to control. Unfortunately, it is like leash laws. Most decent folk do not need to have a law to tell us to keep our dog from harassing other people or animals. Now it is the law - you have to keep the dog on a leash, pick up after it, get it licensed, prove it has a rabies shot, etc. Can you imagine what would happen if they told you that you needed to chip all of your roosters, license them every year, and notify Animal Control if they died just so they could trace any birds found at rooster fights back to the original owner?
Have you read the new codes for the other counties, like Riverside?
Do you have any idea how much money the rooster problem has cost the County taxpayers? Do you really think they are going to spend the money on taking away 2 roosters if you are allowed 6 and you have 8 and nobody complains?
I love my cats - no I am not a hoarder - but let's say I lived next to you and my cats started eating all your chicks. Would you want me to control them? I had an outside cat that my neighbors complained about and I had to confine him to the house. Fair? I have my rights, but I don't get them at the expense of everyone else.
If there is an acceptable, workable, solution let your County Supervisor know. If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.
These are the kind of people that think this ordinance will work, with no good reason or argument. And suggesting they won't bother if you go against the ordinace and keep more...
in other words, break the law and it's ok??? How does this have anything to do with the expense of others? There are already ordinances for disrupting the neighbors etc. This is supposed to be about cockfighting and there is no reason for this ordinance to prevent that, so the offenders just keep some at their house and some at their cousin's house and so on... then get together for a fight. What changes??
Somebody might get into fighting feral cats, then what? Be rid of all the male cats that are our pets? This is no different.
I wonder what they propose we do with all these extra roos if nobody's willing to take them in anymore? Do we drop them off at the animal shelter and cost them more money? Are people going to be releasing roos in the parks now for fear of having too many and getting in trouble? Are we to kill our own pets? How do we breed our birds or replace our hens? Do we grind up all the male babies that hatch like the hatcheries do -or is there some secret to hatching all females? 4H and FFA -more roos are allowed but what do the kids do with them when that's over, some chickens live 15 years, or long past their childhood. Are they to kill their beloved pets? Where are all these roos to go? I'd rather see us have to microchip our roos than see what's going to happen here. Not all of us eat our extra roos, and kids that put so much work into their projects won't want to knowing they eventually will have to get rid of their birds, and that -being so hard to do after this ordinance -- their pets will end up, dead... one way or another.
I think the intentions of this new code are all GOOD. The County has had a horrible time trying to control the fighting roosters and noise. The DA and Courts will not cooperate and continue to make it easier for the rooster fighters to do whatever they want. Very simply, the current codes make it an impossible situation to control. Unfortunately, it is like leash laws. Most decent folk do not need to have a law to tell us to keep our dog from harassing other people or animals. Now it is the law - you have to keep the dog on a leash, pick up after it, get it licensed, prove it has a rabies shot, etc. Can you imagine what would happen if they told you that you needed to chip all of your roosters, license them every year, and notify Animal Control if they died just so they could trace any birds found at rooster fights back to the original owner?
Have you read the new codes for the other counties, like Riverside?
Do you have any idea how much money the rooster problem has cost the County taxpayers? Do you really think they are going to spend the money on taking away 2 roosters if you are allowed 6 and you have 8 and nobody complains?
I love my cats - no I am not a hoarder - but let's say I lived next to you and my cats started eating all your chicks. Would you want me to control them? I had an outside cat that my neighbors complained about and I had to confine him to the house. Fair? I have my rights, but I don't get them at the expense of everyone else.
If there is an acceptable, workable, solution let your County Supervisor know. If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.
These are the kind of people that think this ordinance will work, with no good reason or argument. And suggesting they won't bother if you go against the ordinace and keep more...
Somebody might get into fighting feral cats, then what? Be rid of all the male cats that are our pets? This is no different.
I wonder what they propose we do with all these extra roos if nobody's willing to take them in anymore? Do we drop them off at the animal shelter and cost them more money? Are people going to be releasing roos in the parks now for fear of having too many and getting in trouble? Are we to kill our own pets? How do we breed our birds or replace our hens? Do we grind up all the male babies that hatch like the hatcheries do -or is there some secret to hatching all females? 4H and FFA -more roos are allowed but what do the kids do with them when that's over, some chickens live 15 years, or long past their childhood. Are they to kill their beloved pets? Where are all these roos to go? I'd rather see us have to microchip our roos than see what's going to happen here. Not all of us eat our extra roos, and kids that put so much work into their projects won't want to knowing they eventually will have to get rid of their birds, and that -being so hard to do after this ordinance -- their pets will end up, dead... one way or another.
