My FIL can’t have a dog in the condo he allegedly owns, so it’s very quiet there nothing disturbs him except the college kids screaming at 4 am and crashing their cars into the dumpster.

Barking, loud car stereos, leaf blowers on Sunday mornings — these are NOISE problems, not PET problems.

One of the cats we have had for 8 years. The 2 kittens came into our lives after the pet food recall had claimed the life of our beloved Whiskers. We got them when they were 4 weeks old after their Mother died from being poisoned. There was no way I would have separated them as they needed each other. They were barely eating food on their own, mostly we were bottle feeding them. Even now one of the kittens hates being alone. Luckily she has 4 humans and 2 other cats to be with, and can always find someone.

Currently we live in a state that doesn’t have limit laws, but we may have to relocate to CA because of my husbands job. The limit laws there terrify me.

OYOH, in our county is a law that is supposed to keep animals at the leash; and defecating without the permission of the property owner is also not allowed.

Unfortunately, I seem to be the only one who knows about that - dog ‘owners’ regularly send their critters out in an effort to introduce neighborly sharing: I have the dog, you have the crap.

I walk very early in the morning, and I am annoyed by the number of dogs at large - and some of them are *large*, and not one of them is trained.

I think I angered one neighbor at one time when she was dragged by her dog (I couldn’t see any bags for dog-remnants, btw) and as soon as the dog saw me, it transformed in some sort of a Cerberus and tried to advance towards me, barking furiously and aggressively. She yelled - while trying to hold the dog back - that it is *friendly* and I shouldn’t worry… geeeeee, she was miffed when I yelled back that until she gives her dog an order and I see this dog obey the order *immediately* I won’t stop worrying, and neither should she….

If this behaviour of dog owners doesn’t change radically, and soon, then I forsee ‘dog-free’ zones; ‘dog-free’ communities and other ‘dog-free’ areas - not because people don’t love dogs, but because of irresponsible dog-owners.

i was looking to move back to SF until i found out they had a limit law. moving elsewhere now! i’m over the limit already and was planning on adding a dog when i got back to the west coast. oh well . . .

I moved from a city without leash laws where dogs were tied to doghouses in the backyards, neighbors snarked about each other, and each house with a dog was looked upon with distain by those without. (While out walking my dog, poop bag in my pocket, I was stopped by a little old lady who demanded to know if it was my dog’s poop in her front yard. I told her that I was a recipient of that as well and didn’t appreciate it anymore than she did and, BTW, I pick up my dog’s poop.) I couldn’t obedience train without being in danger of a loose dog coming at us. I walked my dogs after dark with all the other leashed dogs.

Where I live now, nearly every house has at least one dog (I have 4), and everyone smiles at each other because dogs are well-behaved, and if not, they are at least restrained. I can work my dog in the front yard (off-leash is allowed on private property) and neighbors can walk by with their leashed dogs and everyone is happy. I live with a HOA that has no restrictions — I think there is a quiet agreement among the neighbors to keep it that way.

Limit laws are ridiculous, IMO