Baghdad by the Bay #3

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is on the verge of passing a city ordinance mandating how you must treat your dog. Some examples:

• provide water, changed daily, in a non-tipping bowl.
• suggested means of teathernig a dog with a "pulley-like system" and non-choke collar or "body harness at least 10 feet in length.".
• Food must be palatable and nutritious.
• If there is a dog house, it must be big enough for the canine to stand up and turn around in and with a raised floor and dry, clean bedding for when the "ambient temperature falls below that ... to which the dog is acclimated."

Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier was one of two dissenters saying "I was reading this, and I thought: Now we're treating dogs better than we treat the homeless." Supervisor Bevan Dufty, who sponsored the ordinance admitted that the law may come across as frivolous.

I find I can get endless free entertainment by broswing through the ordinances and resolutions on the SF Gov website. I am certain that there are a good many residents of San Francisco who are violating some ordinance or another every minute of every day.

San Franciso Chronicle article here.