pandinusdealer9
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I have such a hard time understanding some of the crazy laws that they come up with!
When I lived in Maine for 4 years tarantulas and scorpions were illegal to keep and were not sold in pet shops but if you wanted a ferret well they are sold in like every pet shop in ME! Now I'm back in my birth state of California and in CA you can get any sort of venomous scorpion or spider you want but if you want a ferret well good luck because there is laws against having them in CA?! I tried to ponder the reasoning behind these laws keeping in mind that most of the laws are passed by politicians who probably don't have any clue about what these animals are in the first place. Seriously if you keep a tarantula or scorpion in the state of Maine, which I did, you had better have a damn good heat source and a house that's less than drafty because ME has freezing cold winters! Even if the animal escapes no scorpion or tarantula would survive a ME winter! So if they argue the reason for the law is that the creepy crawleys could get outside, breed, and populate ME well then they are full of poop. Supposedly the reason for ferrets not allowed in CA is that they might get outside and breed with local weasel populations!? Then there's the more recent law I have to deal with which makes it hard to sell stick insects & mantises. Evidently no pet shops will sell stick insects or any tropical or non-native praying mantises? When I ask why they just say it's for agricultural reasons???! I asked one girl at a pet shop that I frequent why the law doesn't allow stick insects in CA? She said it's because it threatens the local mantis population!? I did not understand because a mantis is a carnivore and a stick insect is an herbivore, so how can an animal threaten another animals survival when it eats plants??? Hmmm, I'm still trying to figure that one out! But then this is the same girl that told my friends who own a Whites Free Frogs that it was insulting to the frog for them to call it a Dumpy Tree Frog, evidently one of it's other less common names!
I suppose I'll never quite understand politics when it comes to keeping hobby animals?!
David
When I lived in Maine for 4 years tarantulas and scorpions were illegal to keep and were not sold in pet shops but if you wanted a ferret well they are sold in like every pet shop in ME! Now I'm back in my birth state of California and in CA you can get any sort of venomous scorpion or spider you want but if you want a ferret well good luck because there is laws against having them in CA?! I tried to ponder the reasoning behind these laws keeping in mind that most of the laws are passed by politicians who probably don't have any clue about what these animals are in the first place. Seriously if you keep a tarantula or scorpion in the state of Maine, which I did, you had better have a damn good heat source and a house that's less than drafty because ME has freezing cold winters! Even if the animal escapes no scorpion or tarantula would survive a ME winter! So if they argue the reason for the law is that the creepy crawleys could get outside, breed, and populate ME well then they are full of poop. Supposedly the reason for ferrets not allowed in CA is that they might get outside and breed with local weasel populations!? Then there's the more recent law I have to deal with which makes it hard to sell stick insects & mantises. Evidently no pet shops will sell stick insects or any tropical or non-native praying mantises? When I ask why they just say it's for agricultural reasons???! I asked one girl at a pet shop that I frequent why the law doesn't allow stick insects in CA? She said it's because it threatens the local mantis population!? I did not understand because a mantis is a carnivore and a stick insect is an herbivore, so how can an animal threaten another animals survival when it eats plants??? Hmmm, I'm still trying to figure that one out! But then this is the same girl that told my friends who own a Whites Free Frogs that it was insulting to the frog for them to call it a Dumpy Tree Frog, evidently one of it's other less common names!
I suppose I'll never quite understand politics when it comes to keeping hobby animals?!
David
