Posted on April 05, 2011 by WayCoolDogs

There is more than one way for a financially-strapped country to make money … and that is by taxing dogs of dog owners or killing their dogs if left unpaid. A bylaw that is over 100 years old has been reinstated in the village of Reconvilier, Switzerland, at a cost of $48.50 a year dating back to the original 1904 law — accumulating in a large amount of unpaid back taxes. According to the old law, the village has legal rights to kill a dog if its owner does not pay the canine charge.