Quote Originally Posted by eatgoodfood View Post
Rea, I understand what your saying, but just possessing them illegally is a problem. The laws suck in some states, the laws are extremely strict here in Bayern Germany, I could easily keep burms, retics,anacondas, I know people who have them, legally, and can sell them to me, legally, but with out a school, and a permit, I cannot have them legally. I guess Im saying just because you can get them does not mean you should have them. Suck it up if you live in NY and dont own illegal snakes, wether its constrictors or venomous. It makes reptile owners look irresponsible and lawmakers think that they need to control us. Is there anyway to keep the animals legally, a permit or something?
I do understand what you're saying there. I suppose I'm trying to say more that I wouldn't personally get involve in it unless I felt there was danger to anyone. I certainly wouldn't promote letting him buy a new burm if this was the question, and seeing as he just got a baby for xmas, that does make me nervous. But if he already has them, the damage to the hobby could come either way. If you turn him in, he'll look irresponsible and lawmakers will push for stricter laws. If he's caught on his own, the same thing will happen. If he was buying a new one, certainly stop him. And if he's just gotten a new one, perhaps I'll have to change my opinion, as he obviously doesn't plan on cutting burms from his hobby. But if he simply owned a burm or two, I wouldn't call him on it, I guess is all I'm saying.

But Toyoto, if he does look like he plans on extending this hobby, perhaps you should alert someone. I don't want to hear about some guy in New York with a dozen adult burms in his house and have the newspapers go crazy... I'll have to conceed to eatgoodfood on that one.