Rather amazing how we become regulated like this and laws are passed...the people that enforce them don't even know what they are looking at!!





I had the Federal FDA(Food & Drug Administration) come into my place and ask me if I kept and sold Sea Turtles... They are now also in charge of ENFORCING TURTLE LAWS! Th Turtle people have no idea what is coming..... the officer told me that since Turtles can carry Salmonella that they will now regulate them and can FEDERALLY prosecute you..... THe entire turtle/tortoise world now has this to worry about.... they enforce it when they want it appears. They wanted a list of my turtle/tortoise suppliers and wanted to know if I kept a list of my customers with their addresses????



HELL - Even SATAN does not like this "HELL".



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>>i know this may be off topic a bit, but the USFWS took away the right (without a permit) to own a raptor/bird of prey. funny, cause the demise of at least the peregrine was caused by ddt....anyways, it was falconers that showed people how to breed, propogate, and reintroduce the peregrine. we(falconers got organized...NAFA....lawyers, etc.) i can tell you that the fed often has an agenda. alot of us falconers, thought hey my bird is gonna be off the list. nope. before long they had a rule that even "look alike" was regulated. some of us thought a hybrid would be off the list cause its not native? wrong. some of us thought captive bred would be safe? wrong. EVERYTHING regulated, permitted, form xxxx, and alot of stuff just no way, forget about it. It started slow, at first it was just hey no wild caught peregrines...okay, then something else, and before long everything. dont think for a minute your particular reptile is not on their list. They dont want any propogation of non-native wildlife/reptiles.....but to be fair, they dont want any propogation of native reptiles either!!!
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