California woman licensed to personal unicorn — if she finds one

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A lady named Madeline, with a vivid creativeness and noteworthy consciousness of how paperwork can sprint desires, bought her want when she requested Los Angeles animal management authorities for a license to personal a unicorn — if she’s capable of finding one.

The primary-of-its-kind allow got here with strings hooked up, nonetheless: The legendary creature should be supplied ample publicity to daylight, moonbeams and rainbows and have its horn polished at the least as soon as a month with a mushy material.

Director Marcia Mayeda of the county Division of Animal Care and Management despatched the woman a heart-shaped, rose-colored metallic tag with “Everlasting Unicorn License” emblazoned on it, together with a white fuzzy unicorn doll with pink ears, purple hooves and a silver horn.

The division’s response got here after the woman wrote it a short letter final month: “Expensive LA County, I would really like your approval if I can have a unicorn in my yard if I can discover one.”

Mayeda counseled the woman for her “sense of accountable pet possession to hunt permission upfront” and for thoughtfully contemplating “the necessities of offering a loving residence to animals.”

The company posted photographs of the correspondence, the license, the medallion and the stuffed toy on its social media accounts, with the woman’s final identify obscured.

Its 5 situations for unicorn possession additionally require that any sparkles or glitter sprinkled on the animal be unhazardous and biodegradable, and that or not it’s fed watermelon at the least as soon as per week.