How About the Enforcement?

We're sure Ed Burke has a job all lined up for some connected individual:

• Mayor Richard Daley breathed new life Saturday into a stalled proposal to require most Chicago dogs and cats to be sterilized, saying he supported the idea.
  
  Ald. Ed Burke (14th) is pushing a mandatory pet spay-and-neuter ordinance. Last week, he said he had the votes to push the measure through the City Council. On Thursday, however, Burke put off a vote after a committee hearing where several aldermen opposed the idea.

All Ed Burke is creating will be a new disrespect for the laws that already exist. The puppy-mills and sub-humans who breed dogs to fight won't be spaying and neutering any of their animals. Their animals were never licensed in the first place, so we imagine they won't be registered now. Responsible citizens who don't appreciate this much government interference in the status of their dog's testicles will just stop registering their animals, denying the city another revenue stream.

It's truly a sad state of affairs when aldercreature Freddrenna Lyle is the voice of reason:

• "If you ask the people in my ward on my block, they would say, 'Do I want the police running after un-spayed dogs or do I want them out here running after those people out here shooting at our kids?' " Ald. Freddrenna Lyle (6th) said last week.

She obviously hasn't gotten the memo.