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amarilrose
at Mon Jan 29 14:59:33 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by amarilrose ]
Agreed, this legislation should greatly reduce the number of idiots who would dump their pets... eventually.
I would guess that any would-be dumpers wouldn't try to remove the microchip first, just because that would require some effort on their part, and they are probably dumping the snake in the first place because they want to get rid of it with the least amount of effort possible on their part.
Additionally, I opted to have a microchip inserted into my largest female BP a little over a year ago. Initially, it was ridiculously easy to find the chip under her skin - you didn't have to feel for it, just look. Now however, I can only find it because I know it is there, and I know where - and it is getting harder to find all the time.
As long as this legislation leaves Ball Pythons out of the mix (since they are not hazardously large), all sounds good to me. 
We should of course expect that eventually something similar will be done for the BPs, because they can thrive in FL just as easily as the Burms and Amethistine pythons can. Luckily, the giant species are creating enough problems for wildlife officials and whatnot that they will have to be curbed first... and once the authorities get the bugs ironed out of that system, they should be able to approach Ball Python legislation with more of an educated stance.
~Rebecca
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0.1 Dumeril's Boa '04 (Courtney)
1.2 Ball Pythons
[1.0 '05 Orange Hypo (Specter)]
[0.1 '05 Het Orange Hypo (Sylvia)]
[0.1 '03 Normal (Sue)]
0.2 American Pit Bull Terriers (40lb darling lap dogs:Brandy&Mara)
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chip "surgery" - amarilrose, Mon Jan 29 14:59:33 2007