"This past year we have also started getting a lot of calls on albino retics and boas as well. So i'm sorry but the argument that more valuable animals are better taken care of dosen't hold a lot of water."

Could that be because you live in Florida and the pet surrenders are directly related to the $100 annual permit fee and microchipping requirements? I would imagine that if you have seen a change in the last year it maybe because the market is now saturated and people can not place their reptiles with new owners as readily as they could have before the permit requirements came into affect. The reptiles in question may not be as valuable as they once were! This is exactly what I pointed out to our legislators up here in Georgia, if they wanted to create the conditions to facilitate pet dumping all they needed to do was follow Florida's lead. Now imagine the issues we will have if a national ban comes into law, our politicians will be directly responsible for creating the mess that they are trying to prevent, but don't think for a second that they will take the blame, it will be the pet owners who will be blamed!!!

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