Moving to WA

[PMyers]

Looks like I might be heading for a career change shortly, which would likely mean relocating to WA. I have heard horror stories about the licencing restrictions there for years, but only now after looking in to it do I realise just how woeful it is! I understand the whole "be grateful you can keep them at all" camp, but DAMN! $300 a year just to keep my olives? Quarterly returns? Holy crap! Not to mention the fact that I would have to give away or sell 75% of my collection, as they aren't on 'the list'. Pfeh! If the $$$ weren't worth the move I'd definitely reconsider the idea. Oh well... hopefully something might come up here in QLD.

 

[jeska84]

I thought you weren't allowed to bring any reptiles into WA? Even if you bought a reptile in WA then moved it out of the state, you can't bring it back.

 

[Pythoninfinite]

I thought you weren't allowed to bring any reptiles into WA? Even if you bought a reptile in WA then moved it out of the state, you can't bring it back.

Not true. If you have WA endemics which are on the allowed list, you can take them to WA, but you cannot take ANY pythons into WA from other states, including those of the five allowed species. If you have Olives in the eastern states, you won't be able to take them with you.

Jamie

 

[grannieannie]

Well....we will welcome you to sunny WA.... Yes, we have the tightest rep restrictions in the country. You used to have to put in quarterly reports, but they changed that recently and it's only yearly now, and I'm sorry, but you can't bring ANY reps into the state.....you'll have to leave them all behind. We want the rules to change....but it's a very, very slow process. I heard a very sad story once about a WA guy who got a job in Qld, got his mates to take his reps to Qld ahead of him.....then the job fell through....he couldn't get his reps back !! And some reps that you can have on the east coast, you can't have here.... Pygmy pythons being one.....and they're a WA snake !! Go figure !!

 

[PilbaraPythons]

What Jamie said granny

 

[grannieannie]

What Jamie said granny

Yeah...I guess...but I just expanded a bit...LOL

 

[jeska84]

cheers, didn't know that

 

[PMyers]

*sigh* It gets worse, I see... oh well. What must be will be.

 

[jeska84]

well good luck!! tough situation

 

[grannieannie]

*sigh* It gets worse, I see... oh well. What must be will be.

LOL....sorry about you having to leave your pets behind...but once you get here, you'll soon settle and get used to the way things are....we have no other choice really at the moment...we just have to keep plugging away for change.

 

[Elapidae1]

Annie as Jamie has stead and Dave hinted the import restrictions only apply to pythons all other herps on the list can be imported into WA.

Also Olives are a category 5 animal so would be hard to obtain with out going through the 2 years of previous licenses first

 

[grannieannie]

Annie as Jamie has stead and Dave hinted the import restrictions only apply to pythons all other herps on the list can be imported into WA.

Also Olives are a category 5 animal so would be hard to obtain with out going through the 2 years of previous licenses first

Oh sorry......

 

[Snowman]

Don't do it. You will regret it
the system here is terrible and you will have to pay a lot more to get olives here than you did over east.

 

[Bluetongue1]

The really frustrating thing is that after 9 years in operation with all of 41 animals on the list, the only change DEC have made is to go to annual returns as they were drowning in their own paperwork. They also initially said zero expansion to the keeping list but finally condescended to a possible 6 more animals and 5 yearly reviews. At that rate I figure it will take WA herpers about 2 centuries to be on a par with other states.

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