Quote Originally Posted by eatgoodfood View Post
Yea, former employee, but I did not see where it said friend, maybe I missed that, anyway. I do not recall reading anywhere that he was for sure holding anything illegally, if that was the case, where are the charges against him for that? The snake in question, from what I have read, was legal, was in his care prior to the current laws and was grandfathered in, or something of the sort. The article said the croc was given to him in 2002, was it not much later, 2009 or something that the new exotics laws were in place? Or did I miss something, I might have, if so can someone please point me to it?
Didn't say friend was just my assumption. The article that reported authorities confiscating his animals mentioned they were being confiscated because he did not have the proper permits to keep them. So obviously they were being kept illegally. I don't know about Canada, but in the US when regulations are passed they almost never grandfather in anyone. They just give you a time frame to give up your banned animal. In this case, I imagine that if they came up with a permit system they would not have grandfathered in anything.