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Should be called Moronville. At least they are protecting the streets from ravenous elephants and armadillos though.

www.globaltvbc.com/Morinville could armadillos elephants other exotic pets/4042563/story.html

The video was hilarious!

All of the people interviewed agreed that this is over the top and not needed..
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Gosh, the next thing you know it will ban exotic dancers. That will really affect the economy, too.

Then you have to wonder why the Moronville morons in city government want to pass a law that there is no public support for.

SAINT CITY NEWS (St Albert, Alberta) 07 January 10 Morinville’s new pet bylaw more than just exotics (Glenn Cook)
Despite media reports that may have indicated otherwise over the past few days, Morinville’s new pet bylaw is about more than banning elephants and armadillos.
The three-page list of banned species is among 56 pages in the town’s proposed Responsible Pet Ownership Bylaw, which first came before Morinville town council on Tuesday, Dec. 21.
Since then, it has garnered a lot of attention — enough to take Mayor Lloyd Bertschi by surprise.
“Considering it didn’t even get first reading, yes, I’m quite surprised,” Bertschi said. “It was clear from the initial read of it why we sent it back to a committee of the whole meeting: so we could discuss it. And then, of course, the newspaper wrote about it, and all of a sudden, TV picked up on it, and it was unfortunate it was a slow news day.”
For rookie councillor Lisa Holmes, though, she understands why news outlets latched onto the story.
“It’s a funny news story, and it’s a pretty slow news cycle because of Christmas and New Year’s, so I can see why,” she said. “But it is kind of sad that the idea of it has gotten lost in the muddle. It could end up being a good bylaw for Morinville, something other communities could look to.”
While not as attractive as banning exotic pets, Holmes said the proposed bylaw would address other serious pet-related issues that the Town of Morinville has received complaints about in the past, like cats roaming through yards and defecating in flowerbeds.
“What their intent was to make sure we have a bylaw in place to be able to back up what the citizens require,” she said. “Maybe there’s a problem with roaming cats or lost cats; then we have the bylaw in place to be able to back up what we’re doing.”
But, she added, the banning of exotic pets like opossums, pigs, birds of prey and certain snakes is still a necessary step, no matter how much it may get blown out of proportion.
“As funny as this was, there are a lot of animals in there that should be banned, that are dangerous animals,” Holmes said. “You may get someone moving into town who has these big dogs, and you want to make sure the citizens of this town are protected.”
Holmes also pointed out that the Town is currently in the process of reviewing and updating all of its enforcement services bylaws, and the pet bylaw was just one of three to come up at the council meeting on Dec. 21.
Bertschi said that such a review, and the main thrust behind revamping the bylaws, is to give enforcement officers in Morinville the tools they need to do their jobs well.
“A review was initiated because our peace officers were having issues dealing with a few areas, and they wanted to tweak it,” he said. “This [the pet bylaw] is obviously not a tweak — it’s a fairly major rewrite — but it’s to help them do their jobs better.”
Right now, Holmes isn’t sure if Morinville’s proposed bylaw is modeled after other pet bylaws in Alberta or if it might become an example for other municipalities to follow.
For now, though, Bertschi and the rest of council are just more eager to see the due process play out and see the hoopla surrounding it die down a little.
“Our process was a little bit out of synch, and that’s why when something like this comes up, it should always go to committee of the whole first for discussion, so we can head off some of these issues,” the mayor said. “A tweak is one thing, but we got too carried away, and council needs to identify what we need to see as well.”
The bylaw should return to town council’s committee of the whole on Tuesday, Jan. 18.
Morinville’s new pet bylaw more than just exotics

"But, she added, the banning of exotic pets like opossums, pigs, birds of prey and certain snakes is still a necessary step, no matter how much it may get blown out of proportion. "

It may be blown out of proprtion, but we are still going to pass it anyway. Screw our constituency.

how in god's name can these idiots consider an opossum a dangerous animal? I mean sure those nasty teeth can do some damage if you're dumb enough to pick one up but as far as escaping and attacking the public at large, You know dang well the first thing an escaped opossum is going to do is get hit by the first car that drives by.
Diitos for those pet armadillos.

Oppossums are indigenous to Moronville Alberta, aren't they? How do they plan to keep the public safe from those ravaging opossums, and skunks, and raccoons?

Opossums are not indigenous. Disregard previous posting.

Either way they aren't a "ravaging danger" by any stretch of the imagination unless you are a garbage can. My last close encounter with one resulted in me knocking one off a fence with a broom. Real danger there.
It sounds mean but it would have been much meaner if my dogs had gotten ahold of it. I only had the possum's interests at heart.

Possums are actually not mean at all. They open there mouth wide as a big threat but you can usually just pick them up by the tail and move them. They make fine pets but have very short life spans only about 2 years. I raised up some babies from a road kill and let them go in my yard and after a year living in the wild if I saw one in my yard at night I could catch it and hold it and pet it without any aggression at all.
All the animal stuff is BS and the future is going to be a very sad one for all of us I fear. I can rember seeing baby alligators at Kmart for $5 to sell to kids when I was a kid and people would drive around in there convertibles with a tiger in it now people could not even conceived if this kind of idea. In another 30 years we will rember when we could keep a snake or lizard as a pet or buy it at a show without a government permit and inspection and people will think that was crazy. We need to somehow stop this momentum before it is to late.
Rob

I was victimized by this deranged man! In 1955 I was an impressionable child from a working-class family in the inner city of a large industrial city.This Science teacher had several large terrariums of locally-collected herps in the classroom and that was my first exposure to herps. I was completely mesmerized by them. He added insult to injury by taking the class into the field and showing us how to find herps in the wild.
To illustrate what a total whack-job he was, he found a large adult fox snake, picked it up, let it bite him, after which it calmed down, and then HANDED IT to me, saying to the class, "see, they really aren't dangerous. The snake did not harm me and I was completely fascinated out of my mind, and that experience solidified my interest and addiction. At the time, I was too young and naive to understand that this madman was endangering the lives of his entire class. Several other children were also equally fascinated and we became fast freinds and formed our own little herp society. As I matured and my interest grew and expanded, I did not forsee that this man had initiated me into what is now a life of crime, and if the authorities ever find out, as a senior citizen, I could now face death in prison, because I just cant envision living without my animals!

About the only thing this generation knows is that food comes from hermetically sealed packages at the grocery store...so far removed from the Earth.
jsc
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