Saturday, December 11, 2004

New York reptile owners are about to get screwed

If you live in New York, and you own a Boa Constrictor, you are about to become a criminal. A sweeping, and doubtlessly overreaching bill has passed in the Stat of New York which bans a number of admittedly dangerous animals from being kept as pets.
However, alongside Black Mambas, Polar bears, and Lions, are the entirety of FAMILY Boidae! Now you can't have a 14 inch Rubber Boa.
By the way, Bob Krantz education director of the Western New York Herpetological Society is not on your side. He said, "Not everybody should have a 15-foot boa constrictor." How many Boa constrictors have you seen that were 15 feet? Maybe one, if you were lucky. What about Children's Pythons? They don't get very big. BANNED! What about 4-5 foot Hog Island Boas? BANNED! Rosy Boas? BANNED! Spotted Pythons? BANNED Womas? BANNED! Blood Pythons, Ball Pythons? BANNED!


Not everybody should have sharp object, but we don't go banning them because a very small number of people are irresponsible.
Ban Motor vehicles, they're a grave threat to our populace!
I personally support regulation (not banning) of dangerously venomous animals, but banning FAMILY BOIDAE is absolutely draconian, ignorant, and possibly unconstitutional.
I am so pissed right now, I can hardly breathe, and I live in Idaho...

1 Comments:

Blogger snakepimp said...

Thanks, Skinarama. (nice name btw...) I am not in NY, I am actually closer to BC. I feel the pain of New York herpers...

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