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I have to pipe up over Terrasse-Vaudreuil’s new bylaw requiring cats to be licensed in the municipality. This sort of contraption — an opportunity for a town to collect more money — will invariably swell to the whole pinching collective of West Island governance. I am totally against it. And yes, I am a cat owner.

The way you know that it is a cash grab is by its colours — $24 every two years. Why?

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A cat is not a car or a driver of a vehicle. Why not make it a licence for life or until I move? And even then, I wholly disagree. All of my cats have worn metal dog tags with his/her name and my phone number on them. It cost me $11 for life. (I am doing the city a favour. They don’t have to “incur” administrative costs.) If my cat is AWOL and picked up by the cat catcher (and I have never seen one in 34 years of living here), the city calls my home number and I pick it up. Either way, if there is no personalized nor official municipal tag to identify the animal, it is still locked up and lost.