Bet you all never thought you would have to be so actively involved in politics for your country, state, city or county when all you really wanted to do was keep a small collection of exotics. It is scary that in the land of the free that so many of our rights are being taken away from us without even giving us the oportunity to speak on the topics at hand. They know that the majority of the time the topics would not pass on a bill of their own so they underwrite them on bigger bills that have much more social impact and let the other bill get past. Thus, they effectively pass the bill they were trying to by letting it "piggyback" on other bills. We all need to become active in our communities and fight back. As long as we are active we can find out about the laws and by publicly posting on this as well as other sites we can get the word out to everyone. Todd