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

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

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It depends on whether you have MERGED the fish

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Also, fish do not count towards this limit.

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Two cats, a dog, and sixteen full grown swordfish

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

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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 🤔

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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.

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

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“and these are my pet cats over here, and my working cats over there”

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This gives me integer linear programming flashbacks…

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That’s a good thing! right?

…right?

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

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

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