Quote Originally Posted by frankykeno View Post
Most often it's because those that draft the laws don't have a clue about the species they include. Sometimes it's a law meant to deal with giant pythons like burmese and retics and balls just get lumped in with "python" in general. Sometimes it is in reaction to something stupid somebody in that community did with their snake and everyone else gets to pay the price. Often and sadly, it's about blind and very stupid fear.

Laws don't always make much sense. Take Michigan for instance. They have laws like you would simply NOT believe about owning a wolf/dog cross....major and very detailed laws, pages of them actually. However you can order a Gaboon Viper, a venomous snake with the largest fangs in the world over the internet and own it quite legally. Nobody cares if you are 12 years old and keeping it in a bucket, it's a legal species to own at least where I used to live in northern Michigan.

I don't have a problem with laws if they made any sort of sense or if the people that draft laws would take a moment of their time to actually talk to expert breeders and hobbyists about the reality of keeping that particular species.
jpman told me it's mostly likely they just got lumped in with "pythons". It's so frustrating someone wouldn't make the time to research. There really isn't any harm in having one. Thank goodness they aren't illegal where I'm at (as far as I know)

My home town allows owning wolves and wolf crosses That's a bit much for me. Our neighbor (out in the country) breeds 1/2 wolf 1/2 german shepard. Now THAT'S something to fear and make a law about IMO.