This item on BoingBoing.com about a child receiving a license for a pet unicorn:
LA Animal Control issues first ever license for pet unicorn ownership | Boing Boing:
Last month, a young girl named Madeline write a letter to the LA County Department of Animal Care and Control requesting formal government permission to keep a unicorn in her backyard. Presumably, Madeline had already asked her parents if she could have a unicorn, and rather than disappoint their child by letting her know how impossible it would be to actually capture and domesticate a unicorn, they passed the buck to the bureaucrats instead —