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mchambers
at Thu Apr 20 08:32:10 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by mchambers ]
direct communications with the Mo. wildlife agency and not my local county game enforcer when I lived there. A TOTAL of only 5 native species ! For captive bred animals and if native, you need documentation and or receipts of each animal and they must be from out of state or you need the commercial ( as they do ) permit of the class 11 to buy or sale native species within the state. Do you see the loop hole or flaw on this ? Next is the gray area : you have found a gravid native black rat ( or put your species here ) and she has offspring's. When will the law kick-in on the 5 only total. At birth ? To be legal you must dispose the other over the limit animals. How do you do it ? Give away to other people is one option with no monetary gain. Release back into wild ? > but this is suppose to be within guidelines of the wildlife agency where they themselves are suppose to do it after you surrender the excess numbers to your county game officer. Option with-in a option : the game wildlife officer can approve of you yourself to releasing the excess animals back into the wild. They are suppose to accommodate you to your location of released approved area/spot. Yeah, sure !
Let's look at the " flaw and or loop hole " of the total numbers and this is common with a not " WHOLE " picture scenario or not thought out law : I was told that EVERY person in my family could legally have up to the total of 5 species. So when I lived in Missouri I could have ( name your species here ) 20 milk snakes since there was 4 of us in my family.
The bad info or interpretation of laws of my county wild life officer while in Bates county Missouri : he said , upon me asking , that i could keep timber rattlesnake from Mo.with the same 5 total limit. When I asked the state for my wanting to display the species in my pet store ( and there was no law in the city of my business that said I couldn't ) they said no the timber was off limits to collecting in which I thought. They said the county agent was miss-informed.
The above has/had many of us west Texas hunters under the same problem of the local game officer interpreting the law themselves either wrong or miss-informed. This has been threaded on this site ( but not this forum ) of past.
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