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<blockquote data-quote="dabigboy" data-source="post: 3830628" data-attributes="member: 50364"><p>Had a bizarre moment recently while dealing with animal control regarding my family's 2 cats. I won't go into the whole ordeal, but long and short of it is someone complained about a cat in their yard and claimed it was mine, but it turns out to not be either of my cats (which I now have to defend in court...). But animal control dude was reading me the riot act about how animals, including cats, are not allowed to free roam. When I challenged his assertion and asked to see the relevant ordinance, he went right to the section of city code I figured he would....which explicitly excludes cats. After much fruitless discussion, a phone call to his supervisor, and his attempting a "novel" interpretation of said ordinance, he was no longer asserting flat-out that it was illegal per ordinance, but insisted it's not allowed because "you don't know if your cat is causing a nuisance or not". He still wrote the citation.</p><p></p><p>Oh how I long to move back to the country again...............</p><p></p><p>I expect the whole cat thing will be dropped once I show up in court, it's obvious from photos it's not my cat. Though now I have TWO citations, so I'll have to do it again in a couple more months (unless the judge is cool and drops the second one at the same time).</p><p></p><p>But....I want out.</p><p></p><p>There have been other issues living in the city, but this one finally did it. I've had enough. I've lived in a city ever since moving to Oklahoma 13+ years ago, and it's past time to get out. It seems like maybe the market is cooling off just a bit, but land still seems hard to come by. Would sure be nice to be able to step out my back porch and plink some tin cans, like I used to do as a kid (I didn't appreciate how good I had it). Fortunately my wife is all onboard with the idea, she loves the outdoors.</p><p></p><p>The search continues.</p><p></p><p>Matt</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dabigboy, post: 3830628, member: 50364"] Had a bizarre moment recently while dealing with animal control regarding my family's 2 cats. I won't go into the whole ordeal, but long and short of it is someone complained about a cat in their yard and claimed it was mine, but it turns out to not be either of my cats (which I now have to defend in court...). But animal control dude was reading me the riot act about how animals, including cats, are not allowed to free roam. When I challenged his assertion and asked to see the relevant ordinance, he went right to the section of city code I figured he would....which explicitly excludes cats. After much fruitless discussion, a phone call to his supervisor, and his attempting a "novel" interpretation of said ordinance, he was no longer asserting flat-out that it was illegal per ordinance, but insisted it's not allowed because "you don't know if your cat is causing a nuisance or not". He still wrote the citation. Oh how I long to move back to the country again............... I expect the whole cat thing will be dropped once I show up in court, it's obvious from photos it's not my cat. Though now I have TWO citations, so I'll have to do it again in a couple more months (unless the judge is cool and drops the second one at the same time). But....I want out. There have been other issues living in the city, but this one finally did it. I've had enough. I've lived in a city ever since moving to Oklahoma 13+ years ago, and it's past time to get out. It seems like maybe the market is cooling off just a bit, but land still seems hard to come by. Would sure be nice to be able to step out my back porch and plink some tin cans, like I used to do as a kid (I didn't appreciate how good I had it). Fortunately my wife is all onboard with the idea, she loves the outdoors. The search continues. Matt [/QUOTE]
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