Maybe right now the intentions are genuinely good and only a species specific, if an inch is given, what happens when PETA and ect. sees the door a crack and shoves their giant foot up "ours"? Sometimes compromise can be a good solution to a problem...BUT

Here is a real life example:

In a relatively fairly large city where I grew up and is close (20 miles) from where i currently live, quite a few years ago "they" (the city government council) decided it would be a good idea to ban large and dangerous constrictors from being sold or posessed in the city limits for everyones safely, after one got loose and made the news, a very small minority of owners opposed it, so it passed. A few years later "they" decided to ban all constrictors, that too passed. So all you would see in the pet shops was garter and ribbon snakes the past few years, more like many years actually. So keepers either moved out into the country or went underground (made to feel and operate like they have drugs in there homes or drug dealers). Recently one of the pet store owners said that as of this year even garters are on the city banned list, so they will no longer be offered for sale. Wouldn't want anyone getting killed by a garter. While I have not confirmed if that is official, either way you won't even see a garter or ribbon snake for sale anymore at the biggest pet shop in town, this is a real example of 1 inch growing. I think at a local level sometimes these things pass before anyone really knows about it and then it's too late. So fill out the official form, I did, and I'm not a big breeder, I'm a nobody, and I don't even keep Burms although I have in the past, but I like my snakes and I want to keep them, voice your oppinion in a tactful non-attacking way while you have the chance before it's too late, because otherwise then you just have to live with what others decided for you.

Jeff

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0.0.5 3-striped mud turtle

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