ok well here is my story and any help would be great.... illinois department of natural resources tell me that i need an endangered species permit to have one. My response was why they were removed from the federal endangered species list in 1987 and then the guy on the other line tells me i need one because when their hides are sold it is hard to tell them (the hides) apart from other crocodilians that are endangered. so my reply was well i am not in the business of alligator hides and he said it didn't matter so at that point i knew there was no winning this argument and that he was completely wrong that i obviously did not need an endagred species permit to keep and animal that was not endagered. So then I heard about this thing that illinois has called the dangerous animal act.. which says i can not keep wild cats, dogs (such as wolves, bear coyotes and stuff. then it goes on to say that you can not keep venomous and life threatening reptiles.... ok so what the hell is considered a life threatening reptile. So the illinois departmetn of ag. is the one set forth to unforce this so i call them and guess what NO ONE there even ever heard of this or even knew what i was talking about. So they told me to call the dnr again and the guy i talked to this time told me that he thought they were ok to keep up to 4 ft snoot to vent but he told me to call back the department of ag. so after 4 hours on the phone i am a little closer to the answer than before so as a last ditch effort i call the department of ag back and then after being transferred a million times i get some guy on the phone who says "no they are illegal in illinous they pasted a law about that 2 years ago" then when i pressed him for information about the law and where i could find information about it he said i had no business keeping one as a pet anyways and hung up on me.... so now i turn to my fellow herpers for the real answers.
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help on crocodilian laws in illinois
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that wrote the story on your raid see if either of them will try to get answers. I wonder what the answer would be if they any info or miss info was going to be printed. Anyway check your email
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Jason & Danica
So am I still waiting for this world to stop hating/Can't find a good reason, can't find hope to believe in/...You can't change the state of the nation we just need/ some motivation...So am I still waiting for this world to stop hating(Sum41 Still Waiting)
in TX for those endangered alligators? there was an article a couple months back about how much easier TX is making it for people to kill gators, they claim to have to many.....and they are endagered in IL were they are not native go figure
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Jason & Danica
So am I still waiting for this world to stop hating/Can't find a good reason, can't find hope to believe in/...You can't change the state of the nation we just need/ some motivation...So am I still waiting for this world to stop hating(Sum41 Still Waiting)
