Dogs in history

My dog Otto was very happy to move to northern California after he found out that dogs in this town are treated like royalty, with water bowls on the sidewalks in front of stores and retrievers in bandannas riding in the passenger seats of convertibles. This town has always been dog-happy, it turns out. A local history I've been reading reveals that upon incorporation a century ago, so many dogs were living here that the founding fathers relied on revenue from dog licenses to run the city while they were trying to devise a property tax system.