sad sad mommy @noahsarca

i love the quebec pet allowances they are so silly it’s like a riddle

Number of pets allowed

Usual limits

A total of 8 pets are allowed (among the allowed species), including the maximum permissible for dogs and cats.

Up to 4 pets are allowed, including a maximum of 3 dogs.

Examples:

  • You can have 4 rabbits, 3 dogs and 1 cat.
  • You can’t have 4 frogs and 4 dogs.
    • watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      10·
      6 months ago

      Lol this helped me understand the text, thanks.
      Does an aquarium of fish count as one pet, or does every individual fish count?

    • lad@programming.devEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      Not sure if cats + dogs ≤ 4 I read It as not dogs ≤ 4

      I guess that your ruleset comes from the mention of including the maximum for cats and dogs and maybe those are the only ones that are called pets but 🤔

      • wandermind@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        9·
        6 months ago

        Yeah, I’m very confused by the “8 pets are allowed” and “4 pets are allowed”, it reads to me like “You can have 8 pets as long as you have at most 4 pets” which obviously makes no sense.

        • anguo@lemmy.caEnglish
          10·
          6 months ago

          It’s just badly translated. In French it clearly says maximum of 4 cats and dogs, of which a maximum of 3 dogs.

          • hallettj@leminal.spaceEnglish
            7·
            6 months ago

            Vous pouvez avoir jusqu’à 8 animaux, toutes espèces autorisées confondues. Les poissons ne comptent pas dans la limite de 8 animaux.

            Sur ces 8 animaux, vous pouvez avoir jusqu’à 4 chats et chiens, dont un maximum de 3 chiens.

            My god, that’s so much less stupid!

            "You can have up to 8 animals, all (something) authorized species. Fish do not count toward the 8 animal limit.

            “Of those 8 animals, you can have up to 4 cats and dogs, with a maximum of 3 dogs.”

            Both the English and French versions are on https://montreal.ca/en/topics/pet-license

          • lad@programming.devEnglish
            5·
            6 months ago

            So it’s a trick maths question that actually requires you to know French and have seen these rules in it, seems legit

            • FiskFisk33@startrek.websiteEnglish
              1·
              6 months ago

              I dunno, I hadn’t seen them, nor do I know french. The second “pets” covering cats and dogs was the only way I could see the statements didn’t contradict.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      6 months ago

      I’ve cross-bred eight different dogs with various species of fox, so they all count independently.

      Also, jesus christ the smell.

        • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          6 months ago

          Foxes are “prominent poopers” and I have several areas in my (rural) yard where foxes proudly display their turds. Atop an 8x8 fence post, a raised cement culvert opening, a mound of loam I never got around to landscaping with. They are replaced every few days, I find myself noticing the seasonal diets of the local foxes. It’s lizards, small rodents and fruit for the most part. Very occasionally birds.

          • wise_pancake@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            He pooped in my window well and it looked like he shat out 3 full mice, hopefully this doesn’t become a thing.

            I get a lot of rabbits in my yard, and he’s been visiting for a while to hunt them without leaving poops like this.

            (Edit: actually I think it’s a she, there’s a den about 200m from my house and she had two kits last year, if you went for a walk in the morning you would often see them chasing rabbits in and out of the tall grass)

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          Is that possible?

          No idea. I was just in it for a joke. I know folks who have foxes as pets, though, and they really produce a pungent effect.

      • DillyDaily@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        6 months ago

        But then you’d have 4 dogs, 3 wolves and a rooster, and that’s against the rules.

        What you need is 2 huskies, a bloodhound, 2 wolves, a kakapo, a howler monkey, and a rooster. For best results, duct tape your kakapo to your monkey.

    • hansl@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      6 months ago

      I have a friend with three kids. They had at one point 3 rabbits, 2 dogs and a cat. They don’t live on a farm, but they do have a large property (countryside).

      When I was in college I had a classmate who was living with 5 roommates in a large house and had 8 cats amongst them. No idea if it was legal then or if the landlord even knew.

  • slaacaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    6 months ago

    In Germany my colleague has to send a photo of his turtle every year to some gov/municipal agency, to track it’s growth and prove that is not an exotic/illegall type (which could only be seen when they get bigger)

  • Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    6 months ago

    Makes sense to limit how many you can have, so you can’t have ridiculous number of cats or dogs in a small space. But it gets complicated with smaller animals and since they all have different space requirements.

  • Squire1039@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    6 months ago

    It’s like saying, if you can’t figure this out, you aren’t worth the one extra dog you have, please give it away.