Health Department rules ban anyone from taking money to care for an animal outside a licensed kennel — and the department has warned a popular pet-sitting app that its users are breaking the law, reports The New York Daily News.
NYC Health Department general counsel Thomas Merrill sent a letter last October to DogVacay.com, which has since been bought by Rover, warning that its users were breaking the law and asking the company to require sitters to confirm they have a license before joining up. The app has not done so.
The company has 95,000 pet owners registered in the city, and 9,000 sitters, who brought in $4.1 million over the last year.
. “You [are telling] the middle class you can’t own dogs unless you can pop in your Range Rover and drive to Connecticut for a boarding facility,” Rover’s general counsel John Lapham. said.
The Daily News notes that no full-scale crackdown followed, but at least two apartment residents were slapped with violations in November and December for caring for pets without a permit. Fines start at $1,000.
Note, this statist advance appears to be coming from apartment dwellers who don't want their neighbors sitting for pets. I get it. But the solution shouldn't be calling in the state but rather a Private Property Society solution. Let each building owner set the rules for his building,
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No need for draconian statist "solutions" that simply pit one special interest group against the other.
-RW
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