New Legislation on U.S Burmese Owners

[moosenoose]

This just goes to show how bad things must be over there, and highlights how hopeless people can be in managing them as pets. Goes to show that regulations, although painful, are a vital necessity in this country!

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/politics/17093843.htm

 

[kabuto]

This would happen here if pythons get to cheap, they just become a through away item.

 

[elapid68]

Hey Luke, your link above has died. Keeps coming up with a 404 error, so here's the same story (different source)

Rules put squeeze on snake owners

 

[Chris89]

Sounds like a good idea

 

[WombleHerp]

yer a good idea for the US. some of them just want 2 look cool in front of others so just getting them then throwing them when they get "too big" they need laws like that.

 

[Magpie]

Unfortunately, as always it's only the people doing the right thing that will suffer from this.
The people who are buying burms for the wrong reason will simply buy black market ones.

 

[militant_vixen]

Damn their a big snake aren't they.

They do need the laws for control thats for sure.

 

[WombleHerp]

Unfortunately, as always it's only the people doing the right thing that will suffer from this.
The people who are buying burms for the wrong reason will simply buy black market ones.

very tru i agree but at least some of the wrongdoers will hesitate.

 

[cris]

I think magpie is right.
I reckon they should just have the death penalty or maybe just a minimum $500 000 fine for anyone intentionally releasing them, then ppl would realise it was serious. The excess pythons could easily be used for something, refer to my sig

 

[slither]

thats a great idea lets help this helps out the poor animals that are being dumped