Licensing Cats

Licensing cats in HRM will be about as difficult as herding those same cats would be.

Already, residents are required to register their dogs in Halifax Regional Municipality. But, it's figured, less than 10% of dogs are. Yet, council believes that in order to register cats it's necessary to build a new building and hire staff to the tune of $800k a year. If > 10% of cats are registered (which is very likely), that's less than 20,000 registrations annually. What are the fees going to be? At least $40 per animal even at 10% registration. And the higher the fee, the less likely people are to register.

Just days ago, there was discussion about the Cogswell Interchange, the grand idea that it was, and how it fell flat. Well, here's another idea that will fall flat. At least (mark my words) there's no way that it could fail as catastrophically as the Long Gun Registry.