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Is it really illegal to have an iguana in New York city. I just got out of college and wanted to save for a jungle carpet or chondro python but t they are over six feet so I cant? how can this be possible? Its really not fair, i grew up with this hobby and now I am devastated.there is no basis for this law about the pythons- I mean technically I couldnt own a spotted python right? its [bleep]en hogwash man

Small consolation, but Iguanas are more dangerous than a medium sized python in my opinion and experience.
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I was talking about the magnitude of the situation, not making a comparison. But I was not referi g ng to iguanasn- not being antagonistic toward iguanas- thats probably true- regardless- iguanas are probably outlawed because they get treated like [bleep] by the pet trade- diferent worlds you know- cheers- so sorry to hear this news

You can thank that Idiot who is the republican frontrunner in the presidential nominations for that law.I am a life long Republican with Libertarian leanings and I can tell you that if he wins the nomination I will ABSOLUTELY be voting for the libertarian canidate next year. The first time ever in 20yrs or so that I have been voting. Not only is voting for that stupid law hypocritical (how can you say you oppose terrorists when you pander to the demands of our own home-grown domestic animal rights terror groups -alf, elf and such?) but it causes problems for people in other states like fla. I am totally convinced that a large percentage of the burmese pythons running around in the everglades are the result people in N.Y.C. ignoring this stupid law and buying their snakes in neighboring states (Penn. maybe?? I bought a caiman there when I lived in N.Y.-it's dead and I no longer live in that crappy commie state up yours N.Y.) and then transporting them to the everglades on trips to visit family in the Miami area. My advice would be to either ignore the law and keep quiet about it or get out of N.Y. while you still can. I lived in upstate N.Y. for 9yrs prior to coming to Fla..."Escape from N.Y." is not just a John Carpenter sci-fi film to me. Florida and Texas both have no state income tax are less restrictive on many instances and while both are proposing permit systems for Large boids neither is proposing total bans and smaller boids and Iguanas are fine. N.Y. went from being the 2nd most populous state when I moved there from Texas in 1986 To the Third most populous state behind Cal. & Texas a few years before I moved to Fla. in 1995(25 mill. to something like18 or 19 mill. ouch!!!) and even Fla may be ahead of them now. There is a reason for that, check it out.

Recent video that I believe was from NY...

Snake in the Toilet

Now we might find it funny, after all nobody was hurt... But in the public eye they will use things like this to make things hard for responsible herpers to keep animals like this python.

Lance

i got on the [bleep]en train this morning and saw this article. thats what got me going- the chondro python I always wanted since childhood w ill never happen- evn if i get promoted- blah- i punched a wall-
im ok though- best

I'm confused... I don't understand how a snake that is banned in New york state ends up in a toliet in Brooklyn. Does the New York sewer system end somewhere in Indo, or Malaysia? Maybe the Everglades...it just crawled the pipes. Oh wait I know this stupid law doesn't work and when someone gets one anyway and it gets to big for them they dump it somewhere (thank god they didn't bring it to fla. this time.) so they don't get busted. This only proves what God tried to teach us in Genesis PROHIBITION DOESN'T WORK!!! How arrogant is mankind to think that he could make it work when God almighty couldn't. Govt. just needs to look at the dismal failure their war on drugs has been to to see that these type of laws never work.

who freqin knows- its amazing- Ill be honest- lol- i always worried my snakes might do that and im one of the less squmish- probably- who knows howit freqin got in there- probably a [bleep]ty baseboard- rampant in New York-who news- ive wanted a chondro for yeAars- who are they to second guess kipling

Well, if you want a chondro, then move...Should you have to? No...does the law suck? Yes...but it is what it is and you'll have to weigh how much you want a chondro vs. your standard of living in NY....

I would think there are plenty of other places in the US that offer a comparable standard of living, and no one would care if you had a chondro (yet). Trust me, I'll have to go through the same decision making process if I want to keep alot of the species I'm interested in....

-AzAtrox

Brady Barr has a new place to search for Retics!

Eric

he is also a wuse!
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Tim Cole
www.Designeratrox.com/
www.AustinReptileService.net
www.AustinReptileExpo.com/
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Conservation through Education

A "wuse"? Whats that?

Randal