San Francisco Pet Ban: Richard Gere disagrees

It's true they've found some impressive pythons in the Everglades, but I think it's an overblown concern. The occasional harsh winter decimates their numbers. The last I heard, they estimated that the late cold snap in Florida this year killed at least 50% of the non-native reptiles. They definitely won't be spreading any further north. Personally, I think the larger pythons such as the Burmese and Reticulated pythons should be more strictly regulated because unethical pet stores and breeders will sell them to people without educating the customer on how much larger and more expensive that pretty little snake will get. I'm not at all concerned about wild populations of iguanas and mexican tarantulas though.

Agreed.

Of course, the solution to this is not to ban pet sales, but rather to shoot those morons on sight.

They're the only pets who don't compare favorably to the San Francisco board of supervisors in the intelligence department.

Fish are evil and should die. But not where I have to see their disgusting corpses.

I'd guess it's so you can still buy live fish from grocery stores.

Agreed. There's one chain of pet shops in Canada (Petsmart?) that'll sell smaller things like fish, lizards or hamsters like any other store , but their dogs and cats are all on loan from shelters who wont let you take one home on impulse. It's a much better system, imo.

I lived in Northern California until I joined the Navy five months ago, and people would take their dogs everywhere, too. It would annoy me to no end when people walked into Target's food corner and sit there with their fucking rat dogs to EAT with said dog right there. That's not an issue of "delicate health needs" so much as hygiene. I love cute dogs as much as the next, but that shit pissed me off to no end.

That said, the way to solve this problem isn't with a city-wide ban of sales on pets when, as the article mentions, they could still buy them and bring them in from other nearby cities and continue the same irresponsible and impulsive buying that almost always happens whenever a popular movie featuring some dog or cat breed comes out--and then we're back to square one.

The nany state fucktards will never understand this.

Anna would hate Germany - they pamper their dogs there. People take them into stores all the time. But it's okay, thet are perfectly quiet + behaved, like their kids. Personally I think they are robots.

It's true, throwing a species into a new environment with no natural predators tends to end badly for the native species.

I don't hate that people pamper their dogs or dress them up--hell, I have a few dresses and sweaters for my Boxer, and let me tell you it takes a LOT of effort to find stuff for her! --just that the only dogs that should be in a public restaurant are of the service variety.

Mexican Cartels are gaering up their inventory stocks of Gerbils as we speak.

because fries don't go with cat.

I don't know if its against the rules now but people used to bring their dogs into the pubs in England, out in the country.

If gerbils are outlawed, only outlaws will have gerbils. Instead of being able to get a safe, reputable gerbil, people will have to go underground for back-alley gerbils.

isn't the back alley where the gerbil goes, not where it came from?

You joined the Navy? How did I miss this?

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I did a lot of discussion about that in the BR and Gold Room, and I ended up shipping out REALLY fast. Like, six weeks after I was clead for medical. Almost everyone else in my boot camp division was waiting at least six months before they got to ship out, and with everyone coming into the Navy now, my situation is pretty much unheard of now.

Naw, Lou's fine. I just decided my boxer didn't need to become a new WF meme, is all

If outlaws are outlawed, only outlaws will have outlaws. The rest of us will be stuck with in-laws, which are far, far worse.

I used to believe in shelter rescue, but have you seen the shit they do now? They treat adopting an animal like a baby...home visits, binding contracts about spay/neutering, microchipping, ect, pages and pages of invasive questions, refusal to allow adoption if you are going to allow the pet outside..based on an urban legend and not facts, they want references and will interrogate your vet..

No...there is no way I'd go to a Shelter anymore....they would rather kill animals than let them outside...how sick is that?

Next time I need a friend (heaven forbid..I hope Triska lives forever! ) I will find someone giving away free kittens and get one that way...before they consign them to the death of a shelter.

Agree. Shelters are getting re-god-damn-diculous with their requirements these days.

You can understand a certain amount of vigilance on their parts. Some people just shouldn't be allowed to own animals. That said, it's bad business to turn away folks who're willing to adopt over draconian pre-screening stipulations.