I am fairly new to balls and was disgusted to hear about the ban. I have read the USF&W's proposal and the Lacey Act, including the list of injurious species.

If this ban is passed, it will not only ban the importation and interstate trade it will also ban breeding, selling, owning. I am to assume (you know what happens when people do that!) that anyone who owned these species prior to the passing of the new proposal would be "grandfathered" and get to keep their animals.

The Lacey act is written as follows:

"The Lacey Act provides that it is unlawful for any person to import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire, or purchase any..."

It also states:

"...any wild amimal, whether alive or dead, including without limitation any wild mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, mollusk, crustacean, arthropod, coelenterate, or other invertebrate, whether or not bred, hatched, or born in captivity, and includes any part, product, egg, or offspring thereof."

Adding Pythons, Boa, and Eunectes species to the Injurious list would make it illegal to import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire or purchase any part, product, egg, or offspring alive or dead.

Reptiles already on this list are the Brown Tree Snake (Boiga irregularis). They were added due to their outbreak in Guam where they ate nearly all the local bird population. Due to the release of Burmese Pythons in Southern Florida, they now wish to add the Constrictors from the Python, Boa, and Eunectes generas.

I highly agree that this needs to be fought. Several states already have regulations regarding these species and I feel that it should not be in the feds. authority to "re-regulate". Responses to this proposal need to well written, passionate, and factual. I do believe that when the USF&W realizes exactly how big the trade of these animals is and how it would not only effect the breeders, but the manufacturers of supplies...right down to the companies that make the elements for the insides of heat pads etc. they will not be able to in good conscience to approve the proposal.
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1.1 Super Hypo Tangerine Leopards
0.2 Snow Leopards
0.2 Red Racing Stripe Leopards
0.1.1 Albino Leopards
0.1 Blazing Blizzard Leopard
1.0 Rabbit
1.0 Husband
1.2 Children

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