Those animals were her family. It is unfair to take them away unless they were mis-treated which they did not seem to be. Please let them go back to their home.
I believe this law to be wrong. Don't punish loved animals and their responsible caretakers. (So much for this being the land of the free!) SAVE THE RATS!!!
I am against a law that states how many animals you may have. What would you do to a chicken farmer, or a hog farmer. Tell them they may only have 4 each? Ridiculous. If a person can care for a animal and give it the space it needs, there is no reason they should not own what they want.
This is wrong. Being a AKC dog breeder I know what it like to have an extra dog or two. Is not a crime to have a dog or cat but your treating like it's not the right thing to do. Have you ever heard the saying "Dog is mans best friend."?
Where do you have the right to take people pets without a REAL reason. Such as they can no longer take care of them. I do not see that this is the siuation.
A watcher Dani D.
Please give Jen her animals back I can see if she wasn't taking care of them or hurting them but she's not unless loving them is hurting them & the last time I checked loving & caring for the animals was a wonderful thing so Please Please give the animals back to Jennifer
Please do not euthanize the two rats. They are much loved pets. If I was closer I would foster them in a minute. You are callous and unfeeling...at least let them go to a rat rescue where they can be kept until this thing is worked out.
This is an unjust law. I have 10 cats - all indoors only, well fed and well loved - if I lived in your town, I'd have 6 of my babies taken away from me for no good reason other than "its against the law". Tighten up your laws against animal abuse, and sponser education encouraging people to spay and neuter their pets to stop pet overpopulation.
Please do not put these smart living animals to sleep. They are affectionate. I am sure many people will be willing to give them good homes. If I was nearby. I would adopt a couple of them
As long the pets are well cared for, no one should decide hfor you how many you should have. Instead of wasting your time over this, start going over people who abuse and neglect animals!!!!
It sounds like the city of Norfolk needs money so they will squeeze it out of the pet owners. How sad to punish people who love animals. Who thought of this ridiculous law? We should have them work at a shelter and see how many pets need homes and how much joy they can bring families. I'm glad I live in California
You will rip happy, loved and well cared for pets from the arms of their parents and do what with them?? Rescues and humane societies are overflowing, mass killing, look to that. Take your gestapo tactics away from the citizens who care and can take care, look to the labs, and puppy mills and fur ranches, not to mention the poor chickens! shame on you
What matters is not the number of pets but HOW the animals are cared for. Making a decision to remove pets of any kind from a good home is worse than just foolish.
The law appears to be out of date. Just as any other out of date item, it should be removed or revised. What is the reason for taking them? They are all well cared for and loved. Why not go find the neglected pets who actually NEED care and medical attention!
This outdated law needs to be changed. As long as the pets are taken care of and not problematic for neighbors, people should be able to have more than 4 pets. Time to change!
This is a serious response, a person should be able to as many animals that they have the financial ability and the time to care for in a healthy manner. It aught to be a right to care for as many as you can, it reduces the pressure on animal rescues, humane societys etc. .
It makes absolutely no sense to remove an animal from a clean, safe and loving environment. Tens of thousands of stray animals need homes and the city should be focusing on incentives to GET people to adopt a pet rather than making it impossible to own one!
Go after the puppy mills and the ones that abuse the dogs and cats not people that love their pets and look after them. I've four of my own, three cats and a dog and I'll be damned if I'd put up with this foolishness
I think lawmakers have much more important items to concentrate on, rather than going after family pets--pets that are loved, taken care of and no danger to anybody. Put a little more effort into finding and putting away sex offenders. Animals give you unconditional love, they help lower your blood pressure, and provide priceless companionship, no matter what species they may be.
Why make someone miserable who was doing a good thing taking care and loving their animals? Mine are family to me! They may be smaller and wear their coat all year, but they have names, feelings, and their place among us. They bring joy and are our companions.
Get off your duff and go after those that abuse them and take that stupid law off your books. For some, our pets are the only family in existance.
If they are in good health, not starving or showing signs of neglect why take 'em? Give 'em back!! So glad we don't have to deal with things such as this where I live. :-|
Please return her furkids! they have a safe loving home! You law is out dated and really does not apply! Would you like someone to take your kids away because there is a law that says one per person! Well it is the same thing! If you have a heart at all then do what is right and return them, well if you have no heart then answer to God as to why you KILLED innocent animals!
Thanks You Wendy
Please don't take people's beloved pets away from them. Far too many animals end up gassed to death. If they are not harming the animals and if they are well taken care of then I see no reason to remove a beloved pet from its owner.
10686 prairie view lane, bealeton, va 22712 - a limitation on the number of horses or elephants might make sense, but a limitation on the number of small animals such as rodents seems as if it has not been given any thought. there is not much worse than bad laws.
bill price
I would rather see this law applied to having children;because that actually has fiscal impact whereas owning animals is nobody's else's business and costs are incurred to the owner only. There are far too many animals euthanized each day which is unnecessary and cruel given that there are people that could take them in and love them. I personally have 9 rats and 1 cat in my apt in
california, and it bothers no one else. Perhaps the law at least could allow for ownership of multiple animals that are indoor pets only. Please revise your law-it's antiquated and harmful.
did you know that animals lower blood pressure and that they actually can help hinder depression in some people? and that some responsible pet owners and lovers are not rich with money and belongings but do deserve the blessing and benefit of a pet of their choice. God gave us pets as a gift...to love and enjoy.sometimes i think God gave pets to certain people that cannot bear children, and the old person that lost their beloved spouse and the alone people without family. please see the comfort and joy that a pet brings forth.please allow people to be pet owners, and not for a price. sincerly, christine
Non-permanent residents shouldn't have to hand over their animals just because of this law. In a military town where people are transfered in and out every day it's not right that laws such as this one should apply to military families who are probably going to relocate in less than 10 years time anyways. If I'm going to be here for 6 months and I had 5 cats when I got I'd have to pay to have all of them licensed during that time and find a home for the extra before I get busted and fined for having to many cats. I think that the city should take that law off the books because it's not helping anyone it's just causing more problems. If I didn't care for the animals I could have made the officers go and get a warrant and in the time they were gone I could have very easily done horrible things to get rid of all the extra animals I had. But I let them in and told them I was becoming overwhelmed with rescues and to please take most of them. But now I'm getting cruelty charges when none should apply and I was never even given a chance to remedy the situation on my own. The officers showed up while I was in the middle of my daily/every other day process of cleaning cages and my daily process of feeding & watering the animals. A few cages had dirty bedding. Well yeah, 4 rats in a ten gallon tank can make some dirty bedding in a day. Especially when they like to spread their food around in the bedding. That makes it dirtier. Last year alone my bf and I spent around $6,000.00 caring for these animals. I've got reciepts that show that. We went through 400 lbs of food a month, and I've been working to reduce the number of animals I had. I was rescuing them out. Finding them homes. Charging a small adoption fee and having people sign a spay/neuter contract. Where did I go wrong? I think that as long as people get licenses for their animals they should be allowed to have as many as they want. Especially if they are loved very much and very
Laws like this don't do anything about BAD pet owners, who have no concern for the animals in their care. These kinds of laws just inconvenience the GOOD pet owners and put stress on loved, loving, and well-taken care of animals.
Animal abuse is not a matter of how many animals a person has, but in what manner they care for them. This type of law makes me ashamed to live in this country. Spend tax money on capturing rapists, murders and preventing child abuse. I would rather see a home with 13 animals in it than 13 kids on welfare and the mother pregrent with another.
These kinds of blanket laws are almost always a mistake. They do not actually solve the problem of animal abuse and neglect. I have seen cases where one person had one pet and didn't care for it properly. I have also seen cases where a large number (20-200) of pets were kept and well-cared-for in a single household. You should be basing prosecution and confiscation of animals based on how the animals are being taken care of, and not on how many there are.
I believe that if you own your own property, than who are the city or even state officials to say how many animals you have. If they are clean, cared for and loved, why take them from, what is for most of them, the only home they have ever known. I also think that it should be up to the landlords to say what and how many animals are welcome...not the state....
Glad I am NOT an American. Why take animals that are well cared for and put them to sleep? Spend your time and tax dollars on abuse cases where you are needed. Too bad the ordinary community people can't make some rules of their own...all I can say is if that ever comes to pass the government people better watch out for some changes for the better.
Now if it is possible to take care of four dogs and for cats (at a total of 8 animals, half of them quite large) then why would it be impossible to take care of 5 cats?
I can understand the thinking behind this IF you live in an apartment. HOWEVER, that is some thing the apartment complex should decide, not the law makers.If a home owner has the room and the financial means to take care of more than 4 animals they should be allowed to. Pet overpopulation is a huge problem in this country.Think of all the homeless animal that are be deprived of a loving forever home because of this law.Take this law off the books and pass laws with stiffer penalties for animal neglect, abuse and cruelty.
Oh, how I wish there was a law, you government employees could NOT dispell) making your salaries less then what you want.
For Heavens sake...there are drug dealer, terrorist, murders, child molsters, gangs, aminal abuser...don't you think you could place a little more importance on these things rather then worry and spend money harrassing people about there pets???
I am tired of paying taxes for this kind of nonsense!!!
I can see the need for such a law to prevent hoarding, HOWEVER, if the person is physically and financially able to take proper care of their pets, they should be allowed to do so. Taking custody of loved, well tended pets while leaving abandoned animals to fend for themselves on the street is wrong. Please reconcider this law.
Is this what my father fought the war for? Norfolk needs to change the law and not bother people that are finaccially able to care for their pets As long as the pets aren't being abused.
Who is it that has the right to take good pets away from good people ? >:[ Have you never had pets yourself? If you did, are you just feeling selfish in your old age? There's only really one good reason to deprive people of their pets and that one reason is neglect and abuse. Leave the rest of us alone.
I hope you will reconsider. There are so many abandoned animals with nowhere to go, the people who have the ability to take them in should be lauded, not reprimanded. Thank you.
I feel that if you are financially capable of caring for your animals and giving them attention and love then there is no need to have them taken away. A law such as this can put SO many loved, healthy, and well cared for pets in the animal control shelters overflowing them and causing more and more pets to be euthenized daily. There are time's when people have too many pets that are not being care for, but I say that if you can love them, feed them, and keep them clean then there is no problem. This law is going to make it so difficult and stressful to own pets and this will result in more strays. This is a law I am strongly opposed to and feel that everyone should look more deeply into the REAL problems and reconsider this.
Animals should only be taken from homes where they are not being taken care of. Please do not inforce this law - a lot of pets will lose great owners and animal control will be flooded.
What is it with city people wanting to disrupt normal families? Why is it a crime for those people who have pets in the house? Isn't it better that someone have 6 cats in their house who are being fed and taken care of that them having the 4 and 2 of them are left outside to breed, destroy property and possible starve? Time and money spent on this could be put to better the community.
I have known Jenn for a time and she is a wonderful person, who loves and cares for her animals. We need MORE people like her. I hope she does everything in her power to get her animals back!! There is NO WAY animal control can care for the animals the way she did.
It's a shame that your police officers and animal control officers are so bored that they would have time to harass a person who is trying to help these animals find a permanate home. Why aren't they going after the people who live near by who are running dog fights? It seems that their time would be much better served as would the public at large.
