{"id":1691,"date":"2008-11-11T18:47:16","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T23:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/11\/11\/by-law-passed-against-cat-owners-in-rosemont-la-petite-patrie\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:42:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:42:19","slug":"by-law-passed-against-cat-owners-in-rosemont-la-petite-patrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/11\/11\/by-law-passed-against-cat-owners-in-rosemont-la-petite-patrie\/","title":{"rendered":"By-law passed against cat owners in Rosemont &#8211; La Petite Patrie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3068\/3023633780_f24465a628.jpg\" alt=\"cat\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Be advised: according to this morning&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/daybreakmontreal\/\">CBC Radio broadcast<\/a>, the Rosemont &#8211; La Petite Patrie borough has passed a by-law that limits each household to three cats.  A filed complaint will result in a home inspection by borough officials, and a fine if the owner refuses to give away any cats over the limit.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone seen feeding stray cats will also be fined.  The borough <a href=\"http:\/\/ville.montreal.qc.ca\/portal\/page?_pageid=40,1979577&#038;_dad=portal&#038;_schema=PORTAL\">reasons <\/a>that these measures will reduce the number of strays living in its area.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Montreal (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcamontreal.com\/intro.php?lg=\">SPCA<\/a>) announced recently that its facility is over-capacity with unwanted cats, most of which are abandoned by households.  While adoptions are at their normal rate, the SPCA reports that the surge in house cat abandonment has increased their euthanasia rate.<\/p>\n<p>The SPCA has a different approach than Rosemont &#8211; La Petite Patrie on how to curb Montreal&#8217;s cat overpopulation: it now offers free sterilization of feral and house cats at monthly clinics with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steri-animal.org\/\">Steri-Animal<\/a>.   According to their website, an un-neutered pair of cats can produce up to 12,000 offspring during their lifetimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be advised: according to this morning&#8217;s CBC Radio broadcast, the Rosemont &#8211; La Petite Patrie borough has passed a by-law that limits each household to three cats. A filed complaint will result in a home inspection by borough officials, and a fine if the owner refuses to give away any cats over the limit. Anyone<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/11\/11\/by-law-passed-against-cat-owners-in-rosemont-la-petite-patrie\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;By-law passed against cat owners in Rosemont &#8211; La Petite Patrie&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5044,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7835,7839,7841],"tags":[1536,404,10,3252,125,17,68,85,3251],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-space","category-neighbourhoods","category-services","tag-by-law","tag-cbc-radio","tag-environment","tag-la-petite-patrie","tag-montreal","tag-neighbourhood","tag-public-services","tag-rosemont-petite-patrie","tag-society-for-the-prevention-of-cruelty"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>By-law passed against cat owners in Rosemont - La Petite Patrie - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/11\/11\/by-law-passed-against-cat-owners-in-rosemont-la-petite-patrie\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"By-law passed against cat owners in Rosemont - La Petite Patrie - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Be advised: according to this morning&#8217;s CBC Radio broadcast, the Rosemont &#8211; La Petite Patrie borough has passed a by-law that limits each household to three cats. 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