Victoria to consider child pet ban

[spottedpython]

i only pay $25 dollars for my reptile licence a year only cause i get consession but thats not the point and $100 just to keep a pet seems to much for me. alot of people might have that money and still treat there animals crap.like i don't even have that sort of money to throw around but if my animals got sick i would throw away the bills and get my animal seen too. but i get paid alot less then all of you's here i only get $211 every fortnight. and i make sure i budget my money really well. most of my pay goes on my animals to keep them heathy and happy. i'm lucky to be left with $20 to myself but i don't really care. i'm happy with my animals and what i do for them.

[Bryony]

i still think people should have a type of exam to see if people are competant enough to look after another life, be it human, animal, plant even!

if you can't look after it DON'T GET IT!

zoe can probley agree, in the vet industry you see things that others don't.....not pretty
putting down a puppy cause it barks?
putting down a cat cause it has fur?
putting down a dog cause it wont sit for its owner?
finding a garbage bag full of puppys?
finding a garbage bag full of drowned puppys?

(don't worry i didn't let any of these happen, i took custody of the animals till they were re-homed, except the drowned puppys.....i was to late for them)

but don't you see?
PEOPLE ARE INCONSIDERATE POO BUMS

[zoe]

Originally Posted by Bryony

zoe can probley agree, in the vet industry you see things that others don't.....not pretty
putting down a puppy cause it barks?
putting down a cat cause it has fur?
putting down a dog cause it wont sit for its owner?
finding a garbage bag full of puppys?
finding a garbage bag full of drowned puppys?

exactly bryony. some sort of test is the LEAST that should be done. i mean really...killing your pet because it drops fur? what did you think it was gonna do?!? do you really think these people should be allowed to have animals?

Originally Posted by Slateman

...but naive if you think that by giving money to goverment you will stop anything like that

like i said slatey, its not a matter of who you're paying it to, its the fact that these people that wont even fork out for a worm tablet are less likely to get them if they have to pay $100 a year for them. im not saying that it is going to free the world from animal cruelty, but i do think that people are more likely to take better care of their animals if they pay a lot for them (a gtp for eg like i said earlier). and impulse buying or buying for a friend would probably be the highest likelihood of pets being dumped so if they have to get a licence before their first pet then they have to go home and think about it for a while. and hey, if more people were "naive" then maybe that law would already be in place lol :wink: .

No Hard feeling Zoe

ditto . we're both too stubborn to change our minds so lets leave it at that hey lol