Powassan limits pit-bulls

Powassan has passed a bylaw requiring pit-bull owners to pay a $250 restricted license fee. This makes sense, because the government has to provide us with “services” like these, and naturally pit-bull owners should pay for them.

Pit bulls must also be kept indoors or in a restricted area. Despite the fact that the streets are public property, apparently pit-bull owners aren’t members of the public and so don’t have the same freedom to use public property as everybody else. Any Powassan pit-bull owners should try that line at tax-return time, but somehow I don’t think it’ll work. In any case, it really defeats the notion of public property when some members of the public are less free to use it than others, or when some people can attach conditions to its use that are to the detriment of other people.

Powassan contains 10 pit-bulls. Is there seriously nothing else worth the time of the legislature? I’m sure there are more than 10 burglars or muggers in the town.

Ontario town slaps limits on pit bull ownership

An Ontario town has moved to restrict ownership of pit bulls, requiring them to be spayed or neutered and kept in secure areas.