Jamestown officials have already said city residents can’t own chickens or other barnyard animals like pigs.

Yet, if you’re on the south side of the city it wasn’t an uncommon occurrence over the past couple of years to hear a rooster crowing at all hours of the day or to see a pig roaming through south side yards. Keep that in mind as City Council members discuss limits to the number of cats city residents can house.

We’re not saying there shouldn’t be limits on the number of cats people can have. We believe there should be limits. Too often, we see reports of police officers entering squalid conditions in city apartments that include obscene amounts of animal waste in places where children live. There is a very good reason to limit the number of animals that can live........

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