No Pet Limit in Roscoe, IL

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We, the undersigned, are opposed to the current proposal which would restrict the number of pets a household may maintain. Said proposal limits pet ownership to three animals per household (only two of one species). This proposal unfairly punishes responsible pet owners.

Pet limit laws drive a wedge between responsible pet owners and animal control agencies and can have many unintended consequences. Other cities that have tried to enforce such ordinances have found that they drive owners underground, thus lowering license compliance rates. Limit laws are not successful in addressing neighborhood nuisances or in identifying inhumane activities such as hoarding, irresponsible breeding or negligent rescue operations. We recommend instead thoughtfully written nuisance and cruelty/neglect laws. The reasonable way to achieve the goal sought by pet limit laws is through enactment of these nuisance laws that address the specific conduct that is desired or opposed.

People who maintain any number of pets responsibly and humanely and do not present a nuisance to their neighbors should not be prevented from keeping them because other pet owners might not be as responsible.

Irresponsible pets owners, whether they own one or 10 pets should be the focus of animal control nuisance laws, not people who do things right but have a certain number of animals. Animal control laws should encourage people to become more responsible pet owners, i.e., to license, identify, confine, vaccinate, train and humanely keep and enjoy their pets. Pet limit laws discourage volunteers from rescuing and providing foster homes to pets, when doing so puts them over their legal limit. Through these efforts, volunteers contribute invaluable services to animal control agencies, humane shelters and their communities. Pet limit laws that discourage these activities discourage kindness and cost taxpayers money.

By limiting the number of pets a household can have, while the number of pets produced each year continues to grow, potential pets being euthanized at shelters will increase dramatically.

128 Signatures

  • Sue Magnuson
    • Street address
    • 13084 Deer Crossing
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe, IL 61073
  • Carol Klager
    • Street address
    • 7677 Kinnikinnick Drive
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe, IL 61073
  • Christina Rodgers
    • Street address
    • 2220 S 5th St.
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Rockford, IL 61104
    • Comments
    • Please focus on the bad pet owners instead of punishing those that are responsible.
  • January Fry
    • Street address
    • 5650 Coyote Trail
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe, IL 61073
    • Comments
    • Responsible pet ownership should not be judged by the number of pets in a home. There are many Roscoe families with more than three pets that have clean homes and tidy property. Don't take away our companions!
  • Daniel Fry
    • Street address
    • 5650 Coyote Trail
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe, IL 61073
  • Deanna Bohn
    • Street address
    • 11721 Graystone Circle
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe, IL 61073
    • Comments
    • Responsible pet owners should not be punished because of the irresponsible pet owners. Propose stiffer fines for irresponsible pet owners.
  • Michael Bohn
    • Street address
    • 11721 Graystone Circle
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe, IL 61073
  • Ken Zentner
    • Street address
    • 11721 Graystone Circle
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe, IL 61073
  • Jane Snively and William Snively
    • Street address
    • 4456 Montclair Road
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe, IL 61073
  • Tony Walker
    • Street address
    • 3745 Valerie Rd
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe, IL 61073
  • Nicole Jones
    • Street address
    • 11925 love rd
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • roscoe il 61073
    • Comments
    • If there is a pet limit in Roscoe then there will be many more homeless animals and more animals in the shelter. Instead of putting a limit, why not make it a law to spay and neuter your pet? That would drastically lower the amount of feral cats and stray dogs.
  • Brian C Carrell
    • Street address
    • 11446 Wild Deer Trail
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe, IL 61073
  • Connie Fry
    • Street address
    • 11887 Hayloft Ln.
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe IL 61073
  • Lisa Cain
    • Street address
    • 12520 Greensview Circle
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe, IL 61073
    • Comments
    • Over population is the problem here, not limiting a household to a certain number of animals. Spaying and neutering MUST become mandatory!
  • Tim Koritz
    • Street address
    • 9274 Finn's Crossing
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe, IL 61073
  • Polly Bach
    • Street address
    • 12985 Northland Est. Ct.
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Rockton, IL 61072
    • Comments
    • Interested Rockton resident
  • Brian & Kathryn Erickson
    • Street address
    • 11132 Oxbow Drive
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe/IL/61073
  • Nikki Corson
    • Street address
    • 5696 Andrews Dr. Apt. 3
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe Il 61073
  • jennifer moeller
    • Street address
    • 4889 crown pt rd
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • 61073
  • patricia steinback
    • Street address
    • 8351 Snaresbrook
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • roscoe, il 61073
    • Comments
    • Time, energy, and money is much better spent enforcing spay/neuter regulations, leash laws, and pet responsibilty issues. I have worked in animal rescue for 7 years and it ultimately is the owner, not the number of pets, that determines pet behavior and accountability.
  • Jeff Steinback
    • Street address
    • 8351 Snaresbrook rd
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • roscoe Il 61073
    • Comments
    • This law is misguided and punishes the pets, not the people responsible for them.
  • Rob Conerton
    • Street address
    • 307 salem st
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • 61072
    • Comments
    • It is not the cities right to limit the number of pets in my home. So long as the animals I own are not a nuisance to those around me. there are plenty of good pet owners with more than 4 animals. This is a rediculous proposition.
  • Charlene M. Bolt
    • Street address
    • 13512 Raccoon Run
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe IL 61073
  • Melissa
    • Street address
    • 4763 Indigo Pl
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe, IL 61073
    • Comments
    • I am a highly responsible pet owner and if I would like to have more than 3 pets and they are not causing other people problems I should be able to have them.
  • Anne Lapierre
    • Street address
    • 12170 Whispering Winds Drive
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe, Il 61073
  • Phylis Jones
    • Street address
    • 11925 love rd
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • roscoe Il 61073
    • Comments
    • Make it a law to spay!
  • Ron Jones
    • Street address
    • 11925 love rd
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • roscoe il 61073
  • Brandon Jones
    • Street address
    • 11925 love rd
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • roscoe il 61073
  • Chris Jones
    • Street address
    • 14253 Talcot
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • south beloit il 61080
  • William Snively
    • Street address
    • 4456 Montclair Rd
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe, IL 61073
  • Jody Wise
    • Street address
    • 70797 Hawthorne Ridge
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe, IL 61073
    • Comments
    • I feel as long as pets are registered and current on their required vaccinations the number is irrelivant. I would encourage if there be any laws reguarding animals, that threre be a stronger penalty for neglect and mismanagement. This law would discourage the rescue and/or proper vaccinations for animals owned or potentially adopted.
  • Teresa Musso
    • Street address
    • 10965 Branding Iron Ln.
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe, IL 61073
  • Steinar Loken
    • Street address
    • 11603 Wagon Ln. P.O.Box934
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe,Il 61073-0934
    • Comments
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  • Kathy Iturbide
    • Street address
    • 5753 Condon Rd
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Stillman Vly IL 61084
  • Kristina M Stefanik
    • Street address
    • 3865 Valerie Rd
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe, IL 61073
  • Rachel Patterson
    • Street address
    • 12523 Chuckanut Dr
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe IL 61073
  • chad
    • Street address
    • 5640 karakul terrace
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • roscoe, Il 61073
  • Brandi
    • Street address
    • 5640 karakul terrace
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • 61073
    • Comments
    • It is not the Village of Roscoe's place to tell me how many pets I am allowed to have. Instead of trying to create new, irresponsible ordinances you should enforce the ones you already have. Punish those who are irresponsible with pets. This type of behavior is becoming more and more common in small, local governments. Stop micro-managing and fix the potholes on my road instead of telling me how many pets I can have.
  • Ann Marie Webb
    • Street address
    • 11155 Downing Lane
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe, IL . 61073
  • Shannon Vaultonburg
    • Street address
    • 4259 Montclair Road
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe, IL 61073
  • Alicia Butler
    • Street address
    • 12063 Bowen Parkway
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe, Il. 61073
  • Kjelse Oksnevad
    • Street address
    • 10033 Woodchuck Trail
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe, IL 61073
    • Comments
    • We have two cats and two dogs, and all are very well-behaved and well-loved. If this law goes into effect, there will be broken hearts in our family, our pets, and other families.
  • Eileen Oksnevad
    • Street address
    • 10033 Woodchuck Trail
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe, Il 61073
    • Comments
    • Roscoe is turning into a police state with this proposed limit!!!!!!
  • Johanna Oksnevad
    • Street address
    • 10033 Woodchuck Tr.
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe IL, 61073
    • Comments
    • stupid law!
  • Katina Oksnevad
    • Street address
    • 10033 Woodchuck Tr,
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe IL, 61073
  • Olav Oksnevad
    • Street address
    • 10033 Woodchuck Tr.
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe IL, 61073
  • Gordon Oksnevad
    • Street address
    • 10033 Woodchuck Trail
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe, Illinois 61073
  • Todd Gregory
    • Street address
    • 5855 Sweet Grass Dr.
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe/IL/61073
  • Marla Gregory
    • Street address
    • 5855 Sweet Grass Dr
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe/IL/61073
  • Julia Gregory
    • Street address
    • 5855 Sweet Grass Dr.
    • City/State/Zipcode
    • Roscoe/IL/61073