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Old 01-13-2011, 11:44 PM   #1
USARK.Jonathan.Brady
OHIO - Reptile Ban / Executive Order

OHIO- Reptile Ban/ Executive Order
Outgoing Ohio Governor Ted Strickland signed an Executive Order on January 6, 2011 in regards to the possession, sale and transfer of “dangerous wild animals”. This Executive Order mandates the immediate adoption of a new Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife rule that bans private ownership of many exotic animals; including 7 constrictor snakes, all venomous and crocodilians. Possession of such animals currently in private ownership will be grandfathered under specific conditions. All trade or transfer of possession is banned except under certain circumstances. This order is temporary for the next 90 days. The rulemaking process has been initiated and should include participation from all stakeholders.
USARK is engaging in the process and reaching out to newly elected Governor Kasich’s office. The new Governor is a reasonable man and very pro small business. Currently he does not have a complete picture of the dynamics or facts of this issue. USARK is working to educate the Governor on the reality of this situation; as well as the ideologically skewed perspective of proponents from the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS).
Governor Kasich has the power to reverse this order once he understands the facts. It is up to USARK and the Reptile Nation to voice our concerns and help the Governor understand that reptiles do not, nor have they ever, posed a measureable public safety risk in Ohio. The scare tactics and misrepresentations espoused by the HSUS must not be allowed to go unchallenged by the truth.
Please click the link to contact Governor Kasich and let your voice be heard: http://usark.org/campaign.php?id=21
 
Old 01-16-2011, 01:49 PM   #2
SamanthaJane13
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Gov. Makes Exotic Animals Non Grata in Ohio
By KATY STEINMETZ Katy Steinmetz – Sun Jan 9, 1:55 am ET

Some politicians issue pardons as they leave office, while others make last-minute appointments. Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland is instead leaving his constituents with a message: Dangerous wild animals pose a threat to Ohio's citizens.

In an executive order issued yesterday, Strickland restricted the possession, sale and transfer of big cats, bears, wolves, large constricting and venomous snakes, crocodilians and non-human primates (though the last specification is not, presumably, meant to condone the trafficking of actual humans). The order goes into effect immediately but will expire in 90 days - meaning it will be up to incoming Republican Gov. John Kasich to make his own statement about the private ownership of exotic pets.

The event at the heart of this order took place in August, when a 24-year-old Ohioan named Brent Kandra was mauled to death by a bear at a home in Columbia Township, about 30 minutes outside Cleveland. He worked with another man who keeps exotic animals and was attacked when opening the bear's cage for a feeding. At the family's request, the black bear was eventually put down. Still, people of the town remained uneasy; the death of that bear left seven others, wolves, tigers and a lion in the Buckeye menagerie of Sam Mazzola.

Mazzola says that the order, which bans the new ownership (as well as selling and trading) of wild animals, has little bearing on a situation in which the victim was an animal caretaker. But the fight over exotic pets, taken up on one side by animal rights activists (and concerned citizens) and on the other by passionate owners, is a much larger story.

Those against exotic animal ownership, like the Humane Society, say that owning these animals is bad for them, that most private owners can't meet the animals' needs in captivity and are putting themselves and their neighbors at risk. Those supporting ownership often say that all animals were once wild and that they're being unfairly persecuted for a hobby or pet that they love - since highly publicized maulings like Kandra's prove that such deaths are the exception to the rule.

The problem for people championing wild animal ownership is that however compelling their statistics, their arguments are hardly as powerful as Kandra's devastated parents endorsing Strickland's order. More than half the states have some kind of ban in place, while most others have certain licensing restrictions. And it only takes one poignant accident to get more legislative balls rolling. What do you think, Swamplanders? Is owning exotic pets an unnecessary risk or are the owners of such animals victims of irrational fear?


http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/2011010...92bWFrZXNleG90
 
Old 01-16-2011, 06:43 PM   #3
bullies&balls
I knew the man you was killed and know the owner as well. Have been to his place, fed his animals and even worked with them several times. I myself before being injured at work had 35 big cats and also wolves and other exotics. The sad thing other then this young man dying is the fact that his parents are all gunho about the new legislature, but this kid has been doing this for more then a decade. Mnay newspaper articles showing him "off" as a state wrestling champ that trains by wrestling lions and bears. His family was all quite then..

it is a proven fact that exotics 90% hurt their owner/caretakers NOT the general public !!
 
Old 03-07-2011, 11:47 PM   #4
Southern Wolf
any other news on this?
 
Old 03-11-2011, 03:46 AM   #5
AK907
^We were wondering the same thing, Kev... Can't find any info on it anywhere. Just old stuff.
 
Old 03-14-2011, 04:10 PM   #6
brock lesser
Check out reptile radio from this past week Andrew Wyatt ( USARK ) talked about it.
 

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