🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <4boi3a$k08$1@sydney.DIALix.oz.au> sarahl@sydney.DIALix.oz.au (Sarah Ladd) writes:
>cscka@lux.latrobe.edu.au (-= Kersti =-) writes:
>
>>One pet shop I went into had a tank with about 50% of the stock dead. I
>>mentioned this and pointed out that as the water cycles through every
>>tank, that the diseases would probably affect all the other stock as
>>weel. The reaction "Doesn't matter - we get more on Tuesday".
>
>
>I agree, Kirsty. I'm sick to death of petstores abusing animals. If I had 
>my way no pet store would be able to sell livestock. As a vet, I've seen 
>the aftermath of ignorant storeowners and had to clean up their messes 
>for them. No more!
>

It has occured to me that one way around the abuse of animals and the
lack of knowledge that is generally the main cause of this (how many
five year old goldfish owners know anything about filtration or the
nitrogen cycle?) would be to require a license to own a particular
animal.

To get a license, you would have to pass a basic care/knowledge test and
have an attitude test (this could possibly weed out those sick people
who want a dog so they can teach it to attack). It could then be illegal
to sell an animal to someone without a license...

What would be the possibilities of getting something like this is place?
What do others here think of the idea..?

Kersti.