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This is it! if you do not go to the meetings I don't want to hear any whining later.

Due to the increased number of retarded mistakes by herpers and dealers selling hot herps to anyone.
Bites from lost venomous reptiles to innocent victims to list just but a few points of the problem.
Exotics released unto the florida ecosystem,its already RUINED!
Plus the lack of responsibility,hot snake accidents unparalelled in history!
Any toothless hillbilly can sling a hot snake as we have seen.
now they must be responsible! keep records of every snake!
who they came from and who they sold to!
Plus they must pit tag the snakes prior to sale !
adding mucho denero !!!
Then the private guy must send in updates many times a year.
So any changes to his collection is updated quartery
A cool lost snake fine! seeyaaa....
also no breeding of hot exotics nudering and spaying will be enforced.
Not to forget bite protocalls and a bunker like snake room that can survive cat 6 hurricanes.
Like mine!
good luck guys You were warned but nobody cared so let this go by and your all screwed!

later

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Bud

Assuming you're jabbering about the proposed new Florida regs, first of all they're still PROPOSED changes and second, about a third of the things you mentioned were discussed and dismissed at the TAG meetings. You were there, right?

There are at least a couple of things in the proposals that are probably bad ideas, namely pit tags and regulating tegus in the same category as reticulated pythons. Most of the rest are fairly good ideas.

Someone typed up a copy of the actual proposals and the list of upcoming public meetings here:
forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1140340,1140340

And you can find the minutes of the TAG meetings that led up to this here:
www.myfwc.com/captive/captivewildlifeTag.html

Please read these first if you decide to attend a meeting rather than going by whatever rumors you've heard.

Say I just got my notice yesterday, I am not able to make the meetings but would still like to comment. Fl. definitely needs to restructure some aspects of the license program but some of the proposed changes are simply not taking BMP into account. Can one send in comments with any certainty that they will be reviewed?

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Cheers
Lateralis
"I would rather be precisely wrong than approximately right"
Marion "Doc" Ford