ChicagoTo Increases dog license fees

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Dog owners have been thumbing their noses at the city’s mandatory dog license for decades. Chicago has roughly 500,000 dogs. It sells only 20,072 licenses despite years of threatened crackdowns.

Why, then, did the Daley administration quietly impose a five-fold increase in the annual license fee for dogs not spayed or neutered — from $10 to $50?

The answer is that City Hall has overriding concerns.

“Spaying and neutering prevents aggression in animals, prevents them from roaming throughout the city, prevents dog attacks. That’s our goal — to reduce the amount of biter animals, strays and the [overall] animal population,” said Anne Kent, executive director of the city’s Animal Care and Control.

More dogs than children in the Chicago Public Schools.Imagine that.