My Dog was in the Daily News today because my dog walker got fined

[Lucky Luciano]

for walking her without a dog license! That is all well and good if they want to enforce the law, but it is not fair if nobody knows that it is the law! Now my dog walker has to make an appearance at a mandatory court date! Total Bullshit! Asshole cop! I would walk the dog myself, but I have to get on a train at 6:30 am heading to Connecticut and I get home around 8pm (and my girlfriend is in Japan for the month) - then I take Dexter for a 5 mile run!

http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2009/08/29/2009-08-29_a_doggone_big_fine_tab_if_fido_gets_caught_with_no_city_tag_is_120.html




Susan Cava no idea that having a dog license was the law when she was handed a $120 summons last Friday while walking Dexter, a pit bull whose collar was missing the red metal tag.

"It wasn't even my dog!" said Cava, an upper East Side dog walker who was issued the summons on 94th St. and Lexington Ave., where NYPD officers were spot-checking many of the neighborhood dogs.

The pricey ticket also requires a mandatory court date, which means Cava, who runs NYLovesDogs.com, will have to cancel that day's morning walks.

New York State law requires that all dogs be licensed - and the New York City Health Code says that the tag must be attached to the dog's collar whenever the pet's in public.

Having the tag but keeping it in your wallet or pocket (or, in my case, until this week when it was pinned to a bulletin board) doesn't suffice.

Despite the law, Cava said only one of her 20 clients has a license on their dog - and knows it must be renewed every year.


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They should have used a better picture of my dog. I like this one right after she ate a lobster roll last weekend while we were in Maine - she was rather happy about the lobster roll: