Tim,



PIJAC only has the resources to work on a certain number of issues per year. Bill Brant (Director of Reptiles for PIJAC) told me that there was close to 19,000 different pieces of pet related legislation last year at the international, federal, state and local level. PIJAC was asked to help fight all the TX laws of the past year and they decided to pass. They only have the resources to fight the legislation with the biggest potential impact. I will bet they are not working on the proposed MO laws but I could be wrong. We are lucky they are willing to go to bat for us on the python situation. The bottom line is that herp folks need to have their own national organization with state and local chapters that fight for ALL herpers rights.



I would take the time to do all I can to help our fellow herpers in MO and not make excuses why I couldn't. Can you explain why you think this petition is so bad? I don't know how effective petitions are. I would think that we should, also, be contacting the legislators up there. I requested that information from the folks in MO and I hope they post it soon.



Mike Welker

El Paso, TX

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