More than two cats. See you in court then.

that'd be cool... Zoe is a guard dog, pity the fool that jumps into the back yard when she's there! One cable guy just barely made it back over the fence before she got him!

Hi Elic, dogs are a barking nuisance most of the time, but over here they aren't kept as pets but work animals. Those who have cats though tend to have quite a few and this is some ancient law which is being dug up just to get someone in trouble by the sounds of it. If they were taking it seriously there'd be half the village in court soon. It could be amusing if a full village feud breaks out.

Is that your dog? Actually I'm terrified of dogs but they do keep the guard dogs chained up out here. But if one of them gets a howling fit on you can hear it for miles as otherwise it is so quiet and the barking just travels. I think they use them to guard things like chickens though mainly.

yup.there's a guy around the corner from me breaking the law right now. but i didn't see anything. one of his cats tried to adopt me! i told him "you have a home,i'm full" and brought him back to their house.the guy had a good laugh about it.

You're braver than me, some of them have sharp claws.

Hi scarlet, well that's what it's all about, the reporting. There must be hundreds of people round here breaking that law and I can't wait to see which ancient one gets dragged up in the revenge reporting. The only problem being there are two suspects.

Hi jillhill, I can understand having laws in cities where pets are kept indoors but down in the fishing village where they live outside and are too fat and hot to make a nuisance of themselves if owned by someone it all seems a bit silly, especially as those who do have cats have a lot of them. It's the cats that don't belong to anyone who run round making a nuisance and ending up splattered on the roads.

I can understand with dogs as they can make such a noise and be such a menance if they get loose or off a leash, if they are just wandering round being frightening I think they should go to people who will keep them out of the publics way. I know very few people keep them as pets here as they are for guarding things like chickens mostly.

Hi malpoa, well I think that's a good law. I think everyone should be made to hang up a card saying they have a dog on the premises. The avatar has a big sign on his gate saying beware of the dog so I refused to go through the gate until he said he didn't really have one, just didn't want everyone knowing that the cats were protecting the chickens.

Happy new year to you too Malpoa, see you next year.

Only I read this news on paper today about neighbours taking this person to court for having a lot of dogs as pets. the neighbours say that he has more than 30 or so breeds and it is polluting the environment with sound and bad odour! The judge ordered to vacate teh house of dogs!! and also added that it is not fundamental right of a person in India to keep any animals at home as pets!! I dint know that!!! oh avtar is not only cute but also clever!!! I liked 'the cats shielding the chickens' hi hi only last day I got amused at someone's writing which was 'I hung I card around my neck' and I did the same mistake!!! :(( Wish you and H a happy new year.

Hi calai, it's a strange law for people who keep cats as those who keep them keep down the number of strays. I suspect one of the holiday home neighbours was feeding a stray on their last visit so now there's a couple of them hanging round nearby. One of them scared the life out of me by wandering in through the French windows. I chased it out and if I hear one outside I turn the hosepipe on as don't want to encourage them in anyway as they could well have been scavenging in the dustbins earlier. I think those who come out here and try to domesticate cats that live wildly and then go back home need a good talking to about not doing it. Cats stealing your food is terrible. I remember in the heat once leaving the car window open whilst I called on someone, and one of the fishermen had just given me a big bag of small fish which were in the car. I got back to the car and found a cat making off with one of my fish. I was not amused.

I can see that now; a lot of cat-lovers in mylot.. Really?? Really scary neighbors then. I wouldn't want to be staying near the likes like that ever..

Hi Zed, yes it seems if you want a hefty dose of responses then post in cats is the answer. It's only the person who has been reported for breaking the cat law who has to answer to this, and no one has actually been along to take a cat away. But neighbours round here do love taking each other to court over the most nonsensical things.

I'm probably not allowed to have any goats at all...

So you can't just keep as many goats as you fancy then, that's a bit much. I would imagine that this is some dusty old law dragged up as it's not one that anyone takes any notice of.

Im sure that there could possibly be a law here like that. I remember when i lived in texas they had a law there like that.

Hi jdyrj, well it appears that many different places have laws on the number of pets one may keep. I've no idea what the rules were under communism for pet keeping but I imagine they were frowned upon as personal rather than as group value. I'm sure no one will care how many cats you keep.

U better knock on wood for good luck. U may be next.

Hi Aunty, what an astute observation. Village busybodies complaining about someone through their cats. As the police here are obliged to follow up every complaint and there isn't really any crime for them to bother with, they spend a lot of their time being called to rubbish like this. I'm sure the chap with the cats is back on the phone already reporting his reporters for something. It just find it fun as no one wants to report me.

You said it ANTIQUELADY, buy bodies are everywhere

Hi savypat, I'd never heard of this law until today and it struck me as odd as Greeks don't keep pets in general as see animals as workers. But those who have cats have several and look after them properly.

I think we are lucky that we do not live in the US ( no disrespect to those across the pond), I have been googling more stupid laws since I read this discussion and have been amazed by what I found. I think I would be locked up and they would throw away the key

Well there's a good discussion for you. You can't get much dafter than a law not allowing you to walk round with a duck on your head. It could be a vicious duck which needs keeping away from children. I saw a duck swim up and attack a little girl in the sea this summer, it was evil.

Hi thezone, that is a good law, I'm glad we don't have a similar one or how would the donkeys get home after a hard day in the olive groves. As you already sussed with your busy body comments this has nothing to do with anything to do with cats, but feuding villagers digging out any old law they can report their latest enemy for. I do wish we had a law about dogs hanging around though on their own looking menacing.

Hi cerebellum, I can't get over the idea of you having to keep cats on leashes over there, but I think that dogs should be as they can be a menace. Plenty of people keep cats over here, and if they do its usually more than two, so its just a case of some archaic law being dragged up to bring trouble.

We don't have to keep cats on a leash here, but I was reading some of the responses and it seems some people do. I think the law is good if it would be 8 or 9 cats or some higher number. Some people take in more than they can handle and then let them live in squalid circumstances. On the news you always see people that were cited for mistreating their animals and not cleaning up their feces and not feeding them etc. The same for dogs, but the ones you usually see have a bunch of cats.

Hi Sharon, Well personally I don't have any cats and there are plenty of ones out here which belong to no one, but the people who keep them keep them on their own property as pets and feed them well. I think the law is pretty strange if they suddenly get landed with kittens.

Hi filfileigh, this is a small country village and those who keep cats as pets are at least keeping the cats off the roads, where they scavenge in bins and risk being run over daily. This is just some silly old law being used as a way of getting back at a neighbour.

Hi JudiAnn, no it's nothing to do with that as the cats are too old and fat to wander away from the garden area so aren't a health hazard. It's just a way of someone getting one of their neighbours into trouble over here, but if the woman who reported him is who I think she doesn't look after her dogs very well.

Hi bunnybon, well reading through some of the other responses there are laws in some parts of the US restricting how many animals one may keep, it seems to vary state to state. This apprears here to be some strange old law which has just been dragged out to report on a neighbour and nothing at all to do with cats, as the people who do keep them seem to have quite a few on their properties.

Hi Suzy, I'm pretty sure there must be a lot of other rubbish I haven't come across before yet.

Hi lynkshadow, I'm not going to court and anyone can adopt a cat here or take in a stray. Greece isn't big on animal rights, probably as they've had other things to worry about than caring for pets, but cats do oftentimes get treated as pets.