Unfortunetly, many of the people that work for agencies such as various state departments of environmental protection or for fish and wildlife are totally ignorant when it comes to non-cute and cuddley animals. I used to intern for a company that performed pine snake surveys and radio tracking in southern new jersey, and since we were a private company, we were subject to state inspections on our traps etc. Well one day i was out checking traps and got a call saying someone from DEP was going to meet me and that they found a baby pine snake. When i finally met here, she was talking about how it looked a little different and started talking about how maybe the pines in this area were evolving different color patterns and behavior. I asked about the behavior, she said when she caught the snake, it played dead. I opened up her pillow case and they politely told her that she infact caught an eastern hognose and not a pine snake. Mind you, these animals are threatened in jersey and its was here job to make sure that our traps were in good order etc, and she couldnt even identify what a pine snake looked like in the field. I fear that these are the kinds of people who are trying to get this bill passed and probably dont stop to think that maybe burms and balls probably couldnt survive a northeast winter, or pretty much a winter anywhere in the US with the exception being Florida
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0.1 Normal Cornsnake
1.0 Sumatran Short Tail Python
2.3 Ball Pythons (2 normals, 2 pastel and 1 ?)

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