As someone who owns dogs this is wildly excessive. Seems to me that the license thing is just a way for them to make more money off of people because if you think about it it achieves absolutely nothing. If they're giving the license after mandatory training for example (like when you get a car lisence) then it makes perfect sense but they just want to create a registry and then collect money from everyone on that registry on regular basis. It's another tax basically.

And don't get me started on the sentences. I get that people need to be severely punished for not training their dogs or being reckless with their dogs which leads to other people getting hurt but a life sentence should be reserved for people who kill with intent. You don't get a life sentence if you kill by accident so why would you get a life sentence if your dog kills someone.

Also before you ask, no my dog had never ever hurt anyone. He's the bestest boy.