License for owning pets?

Quote:Don't the shelters have problems with finding homes for pets as it is? In the long run it might lower the amount of pets that end up there but in the short term it will make it harder for them to find homes for current animals.

It might make it a little bit harder due to the fact that people who shouldn't be owning pets anyway won't be getting one just because it is cute and end up dumping it because they found in the long run it was a lot more work than they thought. At least the animals will be going to good homes where people actually have the ability to care for them.