Kiss your hobby goodbye!!!! USFW Proposed ban!!!!

y'all will have to forive me for sayin this but a ban on snake like the burmese pythons would be good not bad most burmese owners outside of longtime owners buy them thinking they won't get very big and end up selling or releasing them exacerbating the problem the rest of the snakes shouldn't be banned just the larger ones like retics and burms and only to the point where you'd need a permit to own them

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y'all will have to forive me for sayin this but a ban on snake like the burmese pythons would be good not bad most burmese owners outside of longtime owners buy them thinking they won't get very big and end up selling or releasing them exacerbating the problem the rest of the snakes shouldn't be banned just the larger ones like retics and burms and only to the point where you'd need a permit to own them
05-29-2008 02:54 PM

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I would have no problem with somthing like that as long as it is confined to florida

I don't have a problem w/bans on burmes or retics in the appropriate states like florida louisiana so forth but in the north if you release that type of snake it would'nt make through the winter.

I don't believe in bans on snakes of any kind. I just think you need to have a permit to get one. Go through a bunch of legal mumbo jumbo, sign some papers showing you know of their potential size and care and pay a small fee. Also, the snakes should be microchipped so that if someone does let one go, and it is found, it can be traced back to that person and they can deal with the law.

so has anyone heard anything about it being either rejected or passed, or when it will be presented?

what is going on have they passed it or not

no idea if it passed but i just bought a ball in a pet shop about a week ago.

It's not a matter of it 'passing' yet.. it was only an inquiry, it's no where near the point of being signed into law. This was just a preliminary info-gathering stage.

It looks like they will limit possession to a very few. Even those of us who are reptile/herp rescuers are effected. My wife and I try to educate everyone who is interested in becoming an owner, but there are always those who don't listen and think they know it all and are the ones who end up releasing exotics into our domestic habitation. We will keep doing our part.
I went to the link to write but found it closed, so I will write to US Fish Wildlife through snail mail. Hopefully all of us will educate them.

Peace and Blessings to All.:gj:

In Oklahoma when rooster fighting was outlawed it became a felony to even own the fighting breed. A great deal of fighters and breeders in my area either killed ever single rooster, hen, chick, and egg or let all the birds loss into the wild. The birds hung around the owners houses and when predors like coyotes and racoon came up the owner kill them because they endangered the other livestock. If the ban passes some people might just let their reptiles loss and that will be a big problem for fish and game officers. The ban might not pass because some species are like the crested gecko and are totally depended on the pet trade for numbers, since their are so few in the wild. If the ban does not let people keep their animals their will be more then just alligators that get eaten by big burmese or retic pythons!