If this bill is passed as is, what happens to all the snakes? Especially Ball Pythons?

If the bill passes you are expected to either keep your snakes as pets or euthanize them. Ball pythons are no longer part of the bill as it was amended to Burmese and African Rocks - but expect another amendment to include at least all 9 from the recent USGS survey. Maybe more further along the way.


Can you sustain keeping them if you cannot sell across state lines? Do you just continue to sell in the state you live in?

If I remember my Lacey Act correctly - if these are added to the injurious list it will also ban breeding and selling inside the state. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong). It almost seems like the panel thinks that people keep one or two of these snakes - even breeders - they aren't thinking about revenue, sustaining costs or what they intend to do about the loss of value on the animals that they are about to deem worthless. With as much fear mongering that they do in these meetings I'd hate to point out to them that there are breeders with facilities with hundreds (thousands?) of these vicious animals that are just waiting for the opportunity to break out and eat their children - but I don't think they've been given solid financial information that was presented in the fight against 669. I personally don't have big snakes - but I know that there is no way that I could afford to keep my collection if it was able to sustain itself financially.


Are the "experts" pushng this law ready to recieve thousands of snakes that people can't afford to care for anymore?

They are expecting them to be let loose, they are expecting them to be kept as pets and I assume they will expect alot to be turned over for euthanasia. Again I don't think they've gotten the big picture and I don't think they will really care if hundreds of thousands of snakes have to be put down.

How will this effect prices?

Don't know.
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