if you want them then get them. Nobody has the right to dictate how many pets you have. If anything i think you should put a cap on how many kids these dead beat welfare getters can have. That will take care of the biggesat problem in this area get rid of the freeloaders who cares how many pets you have. if you want them get them . none of our buisnees how many you have.

People should be able to own as many pets as they can take care of. Spay/neutering should be rewarded.

Only if they are a nuisance to the neighbors.

Sure...people want the right to own lots of pets, nobody wants government telling us how to live. But your actions affect more than yourself. That is why, we as taxpayers, have to pay for the expense of animal shelters. People want some cute little dog or cat, then it breeds and they don't want the offspring, or they decide to move to an apartment that doesn't allow pets. Then we, the citizens who had nothing to do whatsoever with your pet ownership, are then made to be the villain to kill the dog or cat that you wanted the right to own but then changed your mind about. One of my neighbors had 3 dogs. After a few years, he tired of having to deal with them. He took them to the animal shelter. Yes, he had the lawful right to own 3 dogs. As taxpayers, we paid to euthanize his dogs so he wouldn't have to be a pet owner anymore. So even though it seems that we don't participate in another person's pet ownership, yes, we actually do. The animals have no rights.

I wonder if this large number of pets ownership is a trend of this generation. My grandparents/greatgrandparents.. who had 12 kids to feed did not own any household pets. All of their animals were livestock and served a purpose--for food or labor--a cow for milk, horses for labor, chickens for eggs etc. There was barely enough food to feed the family, let alone a dog. There would have been nothing to feed him, no table scraps and commercial dogfood would have been a frivolous expense.