and they aren't making any allowances for people who already own more than 3. So people, even those who are taking proper care of their pets, who have more than 3 dogs now have to choose which ones to get rid or, or they will be fined, jailed, and have all their pets confiscated.
...this is the reason we live in the country, outside city limits. This is the same city, by the way, that a couple of years ago annexed people's private land that was outside city limits in order to "expand".