And we can't forget that USFW was originally involved. The original warrant was to find protected Southern Rubber boas. When it became evident that the informant had lied about Ryan having Southerns, and there was none found, USFW properly bowed out. Only Utah's state agency continued because at that point they had already killed a number of Hoyer's research animals and they had to save face. It took them well over a year to come up with this baloney about vet certificates and no pet store in Utah had ever had to have vet certificates before, even though the law was on the books. The law was never applied to herps before Ryan's case, and was originally written with only farm animals in mind.

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