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Are members of this urban chicken movement writing humane treatment standards and enforcement into their ordinances?

I generally think having chickens could be a good idea, but I live in fear of it becoming a wide practice. I work for a nonprofit dog organization. I visit households where dogs are terribly mistreated, where they live in waste that is never picked up, and sometimes even have their collars embed in their skin. Our animal-care laws are minimal and poorly enforced. And we're a society with fairly high regard for dogs. So I fear the abuse and neglect we'd see if the general public starts to think everyone is entitled to have some chickens in their yard. I think for these animals would be even more lacking than enforcement of dog laws.

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