Why live??

[dr del]

Hi,

Thats the UK for ya. You can breed your own to feed live(although its frowned upon unless thats all they will take, then you are to be seen as "keeping the snake alive" which is ok. If you own a pet shop and have a pet shop licence you are not allowed by law to sell a live mouse or rat etc knowing it is going to be fed to another animal live.Obviously crickets etc dont count(dont know why, they are still a living creature) So yeah its a bit strange here.

I'm not sure that's true - I know most of the chainstores won't do it but I'm not sure it is actually illegal.

You can't sell any animal before it has been weaned legally ( which seems to be considered 6 weeks for everything. ) though.


dr del

[Stewart_Reptiles]

There really was not any live v F/T point in the thread. AS being in the Uk F/T is what most do, so i just wondered why things are different across the pond.Obviously you have different laws and regulations to us.

There is nothing in the law (Animals Protection Acts http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/1-2/27) in the UK mentioning that it is ILLEGAL to feed live, I believe that over the years people (Animal Group Rights ) have discouraged owners to do so and somehow they have succeeded to do so however as far as being illegal unless the law has changed I cannot find anything about this.

[piedmad]

Hi,



I'm not sure that's true - I know most of the chainstores won't do it but I'm not sure it is actually illegal.

You can't sell any animal before it has been weaned legally ( which seems to be considered 6 weeks for everything. ) though.


dr del

There is nothing in the law (Animals Protection Acts http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/1-2/27) in the UK mentioning that it is ILLEGAL to feed live, I believe that over the years people (Animal Group Rights ) have discouraged owners to do so and somehow they have succeeded to do so however as far as being illegal unless the law has changed I cannot find anything about this.

According to 2 rep shop/pet shop owners it is in their licencing laws, I once asked for a live mouse for a stubborn feeder but as the shop owner knew me(as i got my frozen there) he point blank refused as he said if he got caught selling me a live for my snake he would get shut down.