What if you just make the SALE illegal? I'm not recommending anything here, just bouncing ideas around. I'm considering breeding my mud turtles, once the MD regs are rewritten in the near future to allow breeding, because they make fairly good pets - small, easier to care for than most aquatics, don't beat the crap out of each other (at least my two) - and I want people to enjoy turtles. I know I won't make a profit off of them, and I don't want to make a profit off of them - I want people to have a better alternative to the sliders out there. It seems that people like myself and other concerned hobbyists that love our selected species would keep breeding for the love of the animals, and would share/trade/barter our animals with other hobbyists.

If you take the sale out of reptile breeding, there would definately be less reptiles available, but most of those produced would go into the proper homes rather than being cheap impulse purchases.

Katrina

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