Registered: Jun 2003
Location: ALABAMA
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Read in the paper this morning that in Baxter, TN, their trying to pass a law for rural folks in your parts limiting the amount of animals you own based on how many acres you own.

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BAXTER — Residents in one Middle Tennessee county are complaining about a proposal to limit how many cats and dogs people can have at their homes.

The ordinance has been proposed by the codes inspector in Baxter, Bob Lane, who says he's had dozens of complaints regarding vicious dogs, bad smells and incessant barking from homes that have large numbers of pets.

His ordinance proposed for both Baxter and Algood would limit pets based on the amount of space or property.

"If you have, say, a half acre or less, you could have two dogs and two cats," said Lane. "If you have from a half acre to two acres, you could have three dogs and three cats, and from three acres on, you could have four dogs and four cats."

Michelle Tackett, a pet owner in Baxter, told WSMV-TV that it would be like someone telling her that she couldn't have children.

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