The answer to "why not" is that most bans only hurt the innocent. While even responsible animal keepers are going to lose an animal occasionally, an occasional lost gerbil isn't likely to lead to an out of control feral gerbil population. Denying people a pet they want will do more harm than the occasioal escapee will do. Furthermore, those who really want to keep them will sneak them into the state anyway. Some of these people are also the ones more likely to be irresponsible and allow more escapes. Before any restriction is put on people, those favoring the restriction need to have strong justification. "Why not" should never count. "Why not" should get legislators impeached. The fact that some people don't like them is the weakest reason of all why others should be denied them.





Bill
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It's not how many snakes you have. It's how happy and healthy you can keep them.

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• Gerbils? - bam171bam, Fri Mar 10 12:06:10 2006
• RE: Gerbils? - PFAN151, Fri Mar 10 15:11:44 2006
• RE: Gerbils? - toshamc, Fri Mar 10 15:40:44 2006
• Why? - wftright, Fri Mar 10 17:27:32 2006
• Everything is banned here - toshamc, Fri Mar 10 17:41:12 2006
• RE: Everything is banned here - wftright, Fri Mar 10 22:18:13 2006
• RE: Why not - jyohe, Fri Mar 10 17:41:19 2006
• Because most bans only hurt ... - wftright, Fri Mar 10 22:28:08 2006
• RE: Because most bans only hurt ... - crazydart, Fri Mar 10 23:52:23 2006
• RE: Because most bans only hurt ... - wftright, Sat Mar 11 10:55:57 2006
• why - jyohe, Sat Mar 11 09:30:08 2006
• RE: why - wftright, Sat Mar 11 11:21:30 2006
• RE: why........ so - jyohe, Sun Mar 12 07:05:22 2006