Give me a freakin´ break.

And the third language? For dogs that respond to neither English nor French.

May I suggest he learn that there is a better way to get a dog to stop licking your face than giving it a verbal command. Since I have been an adult, I have never had a dog lick my face when I genuinely wished that it not do so.

No word yet as to whether the Montreal city council members are required to have brains....

Oui oui, or wee wee?

A council member with an appropriate last name.

As Rush would say, "You can´t make this up".

Government is the solution to all your problems.

Politicians should be seen (rarely) and talk even less and NEVER make stupid laws like this one.

When I first saw this, I thought sure it was an article from the Onion (a.k.a. L´oignon). For the record, my dog is supposed to respond to commands in German. He doesn´t. In Montreal, that would make him a tri-lingual delinquent.

And test them too,before they get a license.

Shouldn´t cats also be required to obey? Good luck with that in any language.

Political correctness runs amok.

I have a better idea: Put councilor LaDouce before a firing squad. His proposal shows that he has nothing to do, and is therefore useless. Montreal does not have a monopoly on useless parasite politicians-- look at the U.S. Congress.

This is too funny. My daughter and her family moved to Peru two months ago. We ´adopted´ her cat and have been telling people it´s because the cat is too old to learn Spanish.

How can one teach a dog to speak frog?

After today´s events, this brought a chuckle to my heart. This has probably got to be the dumbest idea I have ever heard put forth by someone in my adult life. Are we sure that NYC mayor Doomberg didn´t give them this idea?

The Montreal city councilor Benoit LaDouce, who made the proposal surely has spent time in CA to be able to develop this type of intropsection!

Woof woof! Wooeauxff!!

Those of us who have been around for a while remember how back in the 1960s or thereabouts, Quebec province wanted to set up its own country, separate from Canada. And the Ottawa government kept making concession after concession to the quebekers, including labeling everything in french as well as english, and requiring all canadian students to study french.
So the joke of a dependent, financially struggling Quebec goes on.
And it pulls down canada with it - sort of the way New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Illinois, and Califonia will pull down the United States.

That´s nothing. Here in America many dogs are registered democrats and they vote.

Please add the Constitution State of Connecticut to the list in post #16

Dog Warden Clouseau has spoken!

I don´t think dogs are democrats... many of them work. I think it is the cats that vote democrat.

LOL, y´all. We need these threads from time to time in order to maintain a degree of sanity in these crazy times.

Ebonics for black labs?

No hablo espanol! Arf, arf!

Will the dog´s owners be required to be bilingual?

Yes, but where does that put Spanish-speaking chihuahuas?

#11, that was very kind to adopt your daughter´s cat! I also just moved to Peru and brought my dog who is having a ruff time adjusting to the language.

well of course, because dogs answer commands from strangers... right?

My dog ignores me in English, and I´m sure he´d do the same in French. He does, however, speak Treat quite fluently.

Not sure about you folks but I think that Benoit´s surname is well suited to B´s personality.

Benoit, sacreblu, mon sewer!

Some cats work as mouse catchers.

True, #30. Most of the rest seem to work hard at producing hairballs and throwing-up for a living. (disclaimer: I love cats and have only ever lived with cats since I was a kid.)

As for this report about a proposed bilingual-dogs law, it had to come from l´Oignon...

So, if you are were a bi-racial, bi-sexual with a bi-lingual dog- would you be completely immune from criticism of any kind?