Taking Away More Liberties: WI Pet Ordinance Forces Homeowners to Choose — Your Pet or Your House
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 5:03pm by Tiffany Gabbay to the Blaze
In a push many see as a gross infringement on one’s personal liberties, a small Wisconsin town is forcing homeowners who keep more than the town’s “permitted” allotment of pets a choice: Give up your animals, or give up your house.
James and Melissa Lecker take their dogs for a walk near their Wausau, Wis., home.
This is the dilemma currently being faced by one couple — James and Melissa Lecker — who, unbeknownst to them, moved to Wausau with four dogs.
For Melissa, there was no “choice.”
“These dogs are our family. They’re like our children,” she said.
In Wausau, homeowners are not permitted to have more than three cats, gerbils and rabbits or two dogs.
Melissa told Fox News she was in disbelief when a police officer showed up to her door to inform her that she was subject to a $100 per day fine for being over her dog “limit.”
“I had never heard of anything like that,” she said.
“They told us that the ordinance clearly states they [City council] cannot work with us… that it’s either two dogs or that you have to move, as you can’t have four dogs here.”
Meanwhile, the town’s officials said their hands are tied as the “ordinance doesn’t allow for variance.”
According to Fox, Jeff Gold, a municipal attorney from New Jersey, said the law makes sense when it comes to dogs:
“They smell. They bark. They have excrement,” said Gold.
“You’re not punishing [the Leckers], he explains. “You’re regulating society.” Wow!! Progressive alert!
No one from Wausau, including Mayor James Tipple returned reporters calls for comment.
Melissa says she has put her house on the market and is prepared to take a $15,000 loss in order to keep her dogs.
“I hope we can work something out,” she told Fox. “But they are just being so mean. My dogs didn’t bother anyone.”
Watch the report HERE, courtesy of Fox
I too would fight for my pups and would take a $15,000 loss on my house. Pets are part of your family… They are forever! Good for James and Melissa Lecker.
These ordinances will become more and more prevalent if we do not stand-up. They already are in towns, cities, and states with large Progressive populations like California and primarily San Francisco (who tell you who, what kind and how many), New York, large pockets of Wisconsin and the list goes on. They are also prevalent Internationally, from China to Europe and even pockets of New Zealand, a wide open country where there are more sheep than people. Progressives hope to regulate every moment and action of everyone’s life for their idea of “the greater good”. Every single day we are losing rights and liberties. Time to take a stand for pets, for parental rights (of two and 4 legged kids), for individual liberties, for the inalienable rights we are all entitled to in all circumstances.
The Lecker’s situation is not an isolated case by any means. I was personally involved in a situation in Leisure World in CA where they changed their restriction to 1 cat or 1 dog per unit (ridiculous in a community where pets are sometimes the only friends and love its residents have). An elderly lady living there had promised her friend and neighbor that she would take her dog if anything ever happened to her because she had no family. Right before her friend’s death LW initiated a policy of 1 pet and left a poor dying woman to fret over her beloved pet and companion in her last hours and then left her elderly friend in a position to either sell or rent out her home in Leisure World and move to keep her word and take care of her friend’s dog or try to find a home for the pup before it had to go to the shelter or rescue and probably be put down (senior dogs are hard to place).
Nobody is advocating hoarding (which is an illness and wouldn’t be stopped by laws) but good pet parents can and should be allowed to have 4 or 5 dogs, especially if they own a house, or a combination of 6 dogs and cats plus a bird, gerbils, turtles, fish etc. Each case should be an individual matter and should only be of concern if there is a problem. And then it should be based on ability to care for the pets in question and the circumstances. For some people 1 pet is too much. For most people 2 to 4 are plenty but for some 6 to 10 are perfect. I have been to people’s houses that only have one pet (or one baby) and you can smell the litter box or diapers the second you walk in and there is a mess or fur/feathers (or dust) on the furniture. I have several friends with between 4 to 8 pets whose houses are no different than the ‘average house’; with either no pets, just kids or a just a couple of each. And on the extreme, I had an acquaintance that was a vet tech and worked for the local vet that took in strays and hardship cases who had 23 pets, and probably fostered another 100 until permanent homes could be found, and her house was immaculate. Today it is pets, tomorrow it will be children, activities, food, where you can live, what you can drive, how many vehicles you can own and the list will go on endlessly unless we stand up!
Our shelters are over-flowing because of the tough economic times added to by limit laws like in Wausau. Everyone who can and wants to should be able to adopt just one or two more pets instead of continuing the flood of euthanization.
Please help the Leckers take a stand by calling, emailing and writing the City Council of Wausau as well as the Chamber of Commerce, Marathon County and state offices of Wisconsin. I would suggest a call to Jeff Gold, the municipal attorney from New Jersey. Today Wausau, tomorrow your town… your state… your neighborhood.
I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it." -Abraham Lincoln
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Again, please help the Leckers take a stand by calling, emailing and writing the City Council of Wausau as well as the Chamber of Commerce, Marathon County and state offices of Wisconsin. I would suggest a call to Jeff Gold, the Progressive municipal attorney from New Jersey as well. Today Wausau, tomorrow your town… your state… your neighborhood.
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Everyday we read or hear another story about pets and other animals being abandoned in record numbers while at the same time we regularly hear about crazy new rules and laws being passed limiting the amount of pets that people may have, even down to one or two… or worse yet, none.
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