You had one of your older friends get it for you of course. So if I a fl. resident wanted a king cobra and didn't have a venomous permit. When one of my friends who wasn't a Fl. resident came to visit I could haul him to one of the dealers and have him claim that he is buying it for himself and then hand it over to me once we got home. Another thing I could do would be if I had just moved here and not yet changed my driver's license to just go to a dealer myself and claim I was an out of state resident and take possession of the animal myself. Perhaps these two scenarios help make the thing about not being able to take possession of hots without a permit within the state even if you are not a resident. Not to mention that allowing out of state residents the right to take possession of such animals essentially gives them more rights than actual tax-paying residents of Fl. which would probably tick alot of them off. A not-so-wise thing to do in a state where angry voters could vote your bosses out of office or theoretically vote an amendment into existence that could eliminate your job altogether. As far as the "reptiles of Concern" rules go I agree that something needed to be done about idiots buying animals they have no business own but I think the rules are going to fail. For one thing I have a huge problem with the state telling me I have to fork out $100 dollars a year and essentially give up the 4th amendment rights afforded me in the constitution of the U.S. for animals That I may or may not have or may or may not have owned for over 15 yrs. I also have religious opposition to microchips as do alot of conservative christians. I am sure that I am not alone in at least the first two of my reasons I think their rules will fail. Dog licenses are much cheaper and are usually required by law in most places and yet I'll bet not 1/10 of the dogs out there are not licensed. In fact I have never ever licensed any of my dogs never will and I used to work for a Humane society/animal control agency in a county where I was under their jurisdiction and still didn't have my dogs licensed(3 guesses who they used to send out on "suicide missions" after aggressive unlicensed dogs) A better solution to the problem would have been to require a class(for a fee of course) for people wanting such animals that would let them know what they are getting into and then giving them a certificate that would allow them to purchase such animals kind of like they do with diving. No intrusions on fourth amendment rights no annual fees unless you want to get more animals no bullcrap. They could do the classes at the shows and would probably make more money than they ever will with what they have now. But that's just my two cents on it.

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