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

In my opinion retics and burmese pythons probably should not be kept as pets. They pose to many risks and now they are becoming native to some southern states and quite frankly they have potential to become dangerous. I have got kids and if lived in say FL I would be a little upset that my child could potentialy run into a giant and not stand a chance against him. I would definantly understand a ban on them but I do not believe a ban on ball pythons would ever happen.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/HR669

Responsible pet owners petition against H.R. 669

Two words:

"Black Market"

Banning anything never stops trade, it simply increases the demand, which drives prices higher.

BrandonsBalls

well here is our stupid freaking goverment for us all they do is take stuff away from us and i agree people dont need 20 foot snakes i think the limit should be 12 feet anything else a permit should be required

Does everyone in this post realize this is from Feb 2008?

"..This entry was posted by Jeff Barringer on Saturday, February 2. 2008 at 01:30. and is filed under kingsnake.com. The author does not allow comments to this entry .."

I do care about the ban but .. get more updated info. Also, it is a proposal only. USFWS requested (last year) for information from the public. I believe last year was the deadline.

Look up Department of the Interior , Fish and Wildlife Service
"Injurious Wildlife Species; Review of Information Concerning Constrictor Snakes From Python, Boa, and Eunectes genera."

I love you Hyper Joe. We were all too busy bugging out to even look at the bottom of the article, to even bother checking the top of the Federal Register page or where it said that they wanted the comments in by April 2008. But you, FINALLY pointed it out and made us all seem like fools.

Massive panic has been dismissed. <3

people are dumb.they are so scared of snakes.our balls wouldn't never do any thing to us.they are sweet hearts maybe when it gets warmer we will take our snakes to schools and teach kids about bp and show them they do make good pets and kids theses days have no clue how to take care of animals.i want to teach kids and people not to be scare of bp and other reptiles.my wife and i going to start some thing for people who don't want there reptiles and give them a good home.We got both of ours bp for free but they are real happy now.we love all of our animals 25 fish,3 mice,3 cats,1 dog 2 bp !!!!****CrAzY*ZoO****!!!

Makes me wonder why people are trying to turn the USA into Russia :( Soon it will be we need passports to travel between states, then travel between cities will be monitored. I really hope this gets shot down like it deserves.

That said I do understand why some of the BIG snakes are a problem. I think they all should be microchiped and have to be registered, then we get the PEOPLE who are causing the problem not hurting the people who are responsible.

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From what I got from a very quick read over. I'll be reading it in depth over the coming week you can't respond by any electronic means i.e. email or fax. You need to write a letter and either mail it or have it hand delivered to the address specified (and they reserve the right to publish your personal information which I'm not overly impressed about :mad:).

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ya they want you to write it in a letter so they can find all the reptile keepers so they know who to target in , ridiculous raids ..

Is really that bad in US? CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) is not enough for the United States? Why ball pythons??? There were excluded from CITES few years ago. It's bit confusing...

In Europe are big snakes under mandatory registration so not anyone can have it... but it's not ban of trade. It's more like "let's not allow anyone to have big or poisonous snakes at home". :confused: