Many pet owners don’t bother to license their pets. Why would they?
J.D. Tuccille writes:
We bought a license when we adopted our dog, Max, in 2002. We’d taken him in after finding him wandering in the desert and brought him for a checkup and vaccinations. The veterinarian giving him his shots asked us if we wanted to make things legal.
“Sure. Why not?” is probably what we responded. Anyway, the vet did the paperwork and we ended up with a tag that I never bothered to put on his collar and that expired a few months later (Yavapai county licenses are good for one calendar year). That was the only dog license we ever purchased despite owning two mutts over the subsequent 14 years.
Asking for permission to do things isn’t something that comes naturally to me—especially when it’s something that I plan to do anyway. My family loves dogs and we’re going to keep them and care for them no matter what jackass government officials think, so why complicate matters by pretending that I care about their opinions?
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