WARNING - BAN ON BOAS & PYTHONS!! - HR6311 Reintroduced as HR669

[Inknsteel]

I somehow managed to sign it twice, oops.

Oops, me too...

[Wh00h0069]

After reading over the bill, I realized that they are trying to ban: owning, selling, and transporting boas and pythons across state lines, so I am against this bill.

[rjs73]

What some of don't understand is that if this bill passes you will not be allowed to sell reptiles over state lines. That would mean that every pet store would also be affected. I personally don't know of any pet store that could supply themselves with any reptiles. And this bill is not just about reptiles. It includes mammals,fish,birds,and amphibians. This bill if passed would do nothing more than destroy more jobs in an already crumbling economy.

[dizzy]

Yeah, the long letter I just wrote to my congressman Paul Ryan mentioned the effect this might have on the economy several times.

I honestly am not opposed to putting strict limits on the importation of animals from other countries.

But banning breeding, selling and transportin animals across states? Why? What good is that really going to do? It has no effect on the population of the wild animals in other countries. And as to animals being released into the wild and messing with our ecosystem or killing native species... You could just as easily release the animal in one state as the other.
Nobody says to themselves "Gee, I'm an irresponsible jerk and I bought a boa constrictor thinking I could keep it from getting too big and now that it is too big I want to release it into the wild (when I could see it on craigslist and make profit instead) but I don't want to release it in my state. I will release it in the state next to me. Oh wait, I can't do that now? Okay, I'll just keep it."

Banning the transport of these animals from one state to another will have absolutely no positive outcome. Only negative.

grr.

[rjk890]

Damn, I guess the reptile industry won't be getting any of the 850+ Billion dollar economic stimulus package, huh.
I was kinda' hoping for a bailout! (it's the American Dream.)

I'm sure Million's of dollars are being spent to fight the spread of Boa's and Pythons from reaching 2/3 of the country .

Maybe all of the Boa and Python breeders that they put out of business can get Government jobs catching snakes in the everglades, and we hobbyists can just start keeping feral cats.

[daniel1983]

....have they ever banned cats as pets yet? As an 'invasive' species, cats have done more harm then ANY reptiles in the US. Why isn't there a bill to regulate them?

...or maybe we should have even more goverment control......remember when the Chinese government was out clubbing everyone's dogs to death because they deamed them hazardous due to a few reported cases of rabies?

Regulation is great and all........but regulation with THIS government is ALL or NONE. No middle ground. You open the door and it gives politicians the room to write all sorts of new laws and policies......thats what they have to do to keep themselves employed.

[SamuraiZr0]

consider me signed!!!

[snakelady]

Signed it.
It would help if we all wrote letters or called also.

[2kdime]

Where the heck do you sign it? I'm not seeing it....

[kitsunex]

i'd sign, but whats the point? its just an online petition which are ignored more so than an actual written petition. why? because there isn't a way to verify the signatures. unless you are writing to your actual political representative, you are wasting you time.