I have had one call about a Burmese python so far and i directed them to a permitted reptile business that could take it in. Im not going to spend 100 bucks on a permit that will be useless as of July 1st. Plus ive had a Burmese 2 years ago and then the permit law came out so me being a law abiding citizen didn't have the money to buy the permit and microchip so i gave her to my buddy who had the permits because he worked for FWC plus he has a retic too.Originally Posted by dr del
Hi,
The thing that has always worried me about reptile resues is the quarantine issue.
I am in no way trying to bust your chops but do you have 7 different rooms you can QT animals in or did you use one room with all the animals in it and reset the QT clock with each one? and, since you have already re-homed three animals, how long did you QT them before deciding they were clean?
The idea of lots of different animals coming together from lots of different sources, being held in the same location then disseminated to lots of different end point collections is a vertiable nightmare if something went wrong.
Reptile resues also tend to get a disproportionately large number of animals with problems which can get very expensive given the price charged by qualified vets.
Have you had many problems with people trying to surrender the newly illegal animals? How does that sit legally?
dr del
