Ohio ban bill to list all venomous, and all constrictors

Originally Posted by sea-aggie

Whoa...this is a pretty arbitrary line. ALL exotic animal owners should be working TOGETHER. Ideas like this, however benign they seem to you, is exactly the result the AR groups want. Divide and conquer.

Exactly!!

There is a very famous old quote-from way back in WWII-that sort of applies.

"When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out."

-Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller-

Substitute different animal species for the different ideological/religious/political references, and you'll see what I mean.

We have to do our very best to employ GOOD HABITS in keeping our animals, and give exotic keeping a GOOD NAME, or they could ALL be taken away.

RESPONSIBILITY FIRST!!

And we all have to stick together-regardless of the types of animals we keep!!

the only reason for this is due to the jack ass that just let loose 56 tigers, lions, bears, wolves last weak. you get someone who lost his wife and is about to loose his animals since the gov wanted to shut him down and he decides to let them all go and kill himself. not the smartest thing you could do. but because of this they want every exotic pet owner to pay the price . i think people should have some regulations on certain things but it is our God give rite to own what we want on our own land and no one should be allowed to take that away!

Couldn't agree with you more Mike.

We need to start a FAX and letter campaign. Does anyone have a link to the Ohio legistrators that might be sympathetic to our cause? I'm sending a FAX to the sponsors but I'm guessing they won't listen to reason and it's a waste of time.

I don't think I want to be a class 5 felon.

Its a shame that people that have no clue are writing up bills and laws. I think we are on are own.

Vote NO on Ohio H.B. 352 !!! (Banning Exotic pets!)-on FaceBook!


https://www.facebook.com/groups/192895880786715/

Why hasn't USARK jumped on this yet?

Hit the FaceBook page!!

They ARE involved!!

So it seems like this bill is getting less press among the herp community as I'm not seeing much discussion of it as compared to the past USFW proposed regs. Does this only concern Ohio or the whole country? It needs to be fought either way, no doubt about it...

I feel ashamed that out of staters are doing more for ohio reptiles than I am. I have sincere appreciation for all that are helping and would personally like to know what i can do to help more... Other thqn liking the facebook page... I already did!

Thank you