That’s interesting, so essentially it is a by-law forbidding the keeping of dogs, other than guide dogs or assistance dogs. So in theory you could keep any other type of animal, provided permission were obtained. Usually you would expect to see a by-law that either forbids all animals, states that you must not keep animals without obtaining permission (and that can’t be unreasonably withheld), or allows small animals and for other animals you have to get permission.
A friend asked me about an issue yesterday, where she knows someone who lives in a complex where they have forbidden any animal other than three specific breeds of cats, and the cats have to be females. Apparently there is one person who controls the EC who has very definite ideas about what is and what isn’t acceptable. Seems a bit discriminatory to me, what if you are allergic to those three breeds?