Ohio: Kasich barks; panel acts, will propose exotic-animal ban

[ER12]

I do not doubt that regulations of some sort or another will inevitably come of this. For the record, I fully support mandating BMPs, handling and transport protocols (including bite protocols), housing, etc for crocs, venomous, and large constrictors. But also remember that reptiles of any kind had zero to do with the Zainsville incident, and thus need to be dealt with seperately from large carnivorous mammalia. I do suspect it will be an uphill battle, But I am also unwilling to accept a defeatist approach to the situation or to throw keepers of any kind under the bus as you seem to have. Your non venomous reptiles are also on the chopping block called HB 352 in case you weren't aware. Even your ball pythons (assuming you keep them).

This whole issue is equivalent to a speeding 18 wheeler tanker truck barreling down the highway out of control. We have one of two options: We can jump out its window or stand back from it while it crashes into a fiery explosion, or we can try to take control of the wheel of that truck to regain at least some control...

So let me guess your hope is to keep all exotics legal? I can promise you with absolute certainty that it is NOT going to happen. They WILL ban something like it or not. So you can take the absolute approach of "I won't let you ban anything" or you can be a little more realistic and try to fight to keep what you have an actual chance of keeping.

Naive is thinking that nothing will be banned at all.