(11-04-2014, 04:41 PM)Catherine Wrote: I think it is a bylaw issue. It seems unfair since the goats were being well looked after and seemed quite happy. Sometimes I think we have way too many laws.Ah yes! America, land of the free again....
I don't know about the USA, but in Europe urban farms are very popular, as they give city children the opportunity to see farm animals at close hand, which otherwise they might not have the chance to do. So if urban farms are OK, why can't private individuals with very large gardens ("yards" as the Americans call them) have a few farm animals? Of course, the land would have to be big enough, and welfare standards would have to be met. But otherwise, what is the problem, except for cockerels waking people up in the morning? (Afterthought: I suspect that a cockerel crowing in the early morning might have been the reason why they were reported....)
