sadly the price drop makes a lot of pets throw away like computers/tv and such items have come to be. It took me 4-5 years ago to save up for a pair of het pieds, and now I can buy a visible pied for less than i paid for the pair . and I still have to save for snakes( unless I can produce a morph for trading like I did last year.)
I think that to have any animal a person must take a x hour course on it care and keeping of such animal and then require a permit picture iding the animal ( as a drivering lic renewal ), and a quick inspection at random to make sure animals are cared for.
that be the best way to enforce regs and such aswell as prevent problems. ( if I animal dies it must be frozen and a call made to be seen by a certified person( vet) before it can be disposed of. and if another animal is wanted then an reason for it death should be noted before a new permit issued.