Actually, I think someone might have started enfourcing a health code regulation that required salmonella checks on turtles entering PA rather than banning turtle sales. The effect is the same, either way.

If health certificates were required for animals entering the state this time around, then there might have been many wild-caught animals that didn't "make the cut". I've seen some nice-looking mountain horned dragons and cone-headed lizards at Hamburg in the past, but knowing that they are wild-caught and how easily they stress, knew they'd likely be dead a few months after purchase.

An interesting note: I was visiting Falls Road Animal Hospital in Baltimore on Thursday, and the receptionist said earlier in the week a breeder brought in 60 snakes to get health certificates on them. Wonder if he was going to Hamburg?

Katrina

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