We hate puppies here at Plog, but that won't stop us from reporting a messed-up story when we see one. Which is what Nadia Pflaum did earlier this week in "Animal control officers have new quota, are coming for Muffin." As of August 1, each field officer at the Animal Control Department of Kansas City, Missouri, must issue a minimum of 15 summonses for negligent pet owners and impound a minimum of 20 dogs per month. Some dog lover over at Kansas City Dog Advocates figured out that added up to 360 dogs per month, or 4,320 per year.
All of which predictably led to lots of yapping, including this bit of insight from the long-suffering Aggie's Dog, who's been hanging around our comments more and more lately:
Leave it to Kansas City. If there's a problem (such as their own employees not doing their jobs), you can count on Kansas City to find the most backwards "solution" and to ignore all the possible creative win-win type solutions. That's why we're a "podunk town" (the one thing the mayor's wife was ever right about) and not a progressive city.
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