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Pet Allowance (lemmy.world)

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i love the quebec pet allowances they are so silly it's like a riddle

Number of pets allowed

Usual limits

A total of 8 pets are allowed (among the allowed species), including the maximum permissible for dogs and cats.

Up to 4 pets are allowed, including a maximum of 3 dogs.

Examples:

  • You can have 4 rabbits, 3 dogs and 1 cat.
  • You can't have 4 frogs and 4 dogs.
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[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 109 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

dogs ≤ 3
cats + dogs ≤ 4
others + cats + dogs ≤ 8
others ∈ Allowed Species

[-] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 2 years ago

Lol this helped me understand the text, thanks.
Does an aquarium of fish count as one pet, or does every individual fish count?

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

It depends on whether you have MERGED the fish

[-] anguo@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 years ago

Also, fish do not count towards this limit.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

Two cats, a dog, and sixteen full grown swordfish

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 10 points 2 years ago

Bluefin tunas will do nicely, too, they grow up to more than half a ton

[-] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

Jesus, how much money do you think I make? Put the tuna back, we're getting a guppy....

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 20 points 2 years ago

Not sure if cats + dogs ≤ 4 I read It as not dogs ≤ 4

I guess that your ruleset comes from the mention of including the maximum for cats and dogs and maybe those are the only ones that are called pets but 🤔

[-] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 23 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I'm very confused by the "8 pets are allowed" and "4 pets are allowed", it reads to me like "You can have 8 pets as long as you have at most 4 pets" which obviously makes no sense.

[-] anguo@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 years ago

It's just badly translated. In French it clearly says maximum of 4 cats and dogs, of which a maximum of 3 dogs.

[-] hallettj@leminal.space 10 points 2 years ago

Vous pouvez avoir jusqu’à 8 animaux, toutes espèces autorisées confondues. Les poissons ne comptent pas dans la limite de 8 animaux.

Sur ces 8 animaux, vous pouvez avoir jusqu’à 4 chats et chiens, dont un maximum de 3 chiens.

My god, that's so much less stupid!

"You can have up to 8 animals, all (something) authorized species. Fish do not count toward the 8 animal limit.

"Of those 8 animals, you can have up to 4 cats and dogs, with a maximum of 3 dogs."

Both the English and French versions are on https://montreal.ca/en/topics/pet-license

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago

So it's a trick maths question that actually requires you to know French and have seen these rules in it, seems legit

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

I dunno, I hadn't seen them, nor do I know french. The second "pets" covering cats and dogs was the only way I could see the statements didn't contradict.

[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

"and these are my pet cats over here, and my working cats over there"

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 years ago

This gives me integer linear programming flashbacks...

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's a good thing! right?

...right?

[-] GiantRobotTRex@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 years ago

So I can have 12 cats if I have -8 dogs?

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's quite heavily implied the above is only defined in ℕ

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