>>>She figures it's aboiut $10,000 worth of plants and she's trying to get compensation. Following the letters to the newspapers, there appears to be nobody who is backing the city on this one. As usual though, it's a big hew and cry which the city is studiously ignoring. I think what it all comes down to is that the city didn't get it's pound of flesh. Apparently if one wants to grow a 'natural garden', one must apply for a permit, and she didn't. Can you imagine such a thing?
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>>I imagine the sanctity of private property has fallen into hands of unbelievers. All your lawn are belong to us.
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>That's Toronto for you. We also have to license our cats. What do I get for my license fee, you ask? I get another useless tag for the collar. If my cat gets lost, then Animal Services can return it. I guess if the tag comes off they have facial recognition software? I have microchips in the cat's napes, and that, I'm told, is not good enough, I must pay the city for a tag - as if they don't already wear tags anyway.
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>I also have to license them even if they are not allowed outside. Nobody can tell me why we don't have to license fish or birds.

They stopped even dog licensing in the UK decades ago. Funny, in English law, a horse or dog is recognised as an animal, as in you need to report it if you run one down, but not cats. Now I knew that Canada was, shall we say, a trifle anal, but this takes the biscuit (presumbably by skilful sphincter control {g})

How about you just let the cat be a cat? Who's to know? Do they have "cat-catchers" like the old US cartoons had dog-catchers (do they still exist?), ad a cat pound, as a means of generating revenue?