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Hi !

Someone can tell me if a mountain Kingsnake is a protected species or not ?

I would have to ship one from Europe to USA !

Thanks

can be more specific? exactly what species are you shipping to which state?
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a Lampropeltis pyromelana - to Miami

>>a Lampropeltis pyromelana - to Miami

Should not be a problem.
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http://www.kingsnake.com/mexicana/
http://www.joeforks.com

Thanks !

Perhaps you also know a good firm who make shippments ? Because is a very rare snake (it has two heads). So i want to be sure that it arrive...

>>Thanks !
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>>Perhaps you also know a good firm who make shippments ? Because is a very rare snake (it has two heads). So i want to be sure that it arrive...

I don't, perhaps someone else will. Sorry!
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http://www.hcu-tx.org
http://www.kingsnake.com/mexicana/
http://www.joeforks.com

>>Thanks !
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>>Perhaps you also know a good firm who make shippments ? Because is a very rare snake (it has two heads). So i want to be sure that it arrive...

that complicates things! One of your dilemmas: Do you let it travel incognito by not insuring its true value? Or declare whatever you want it insured for (you'll pay for that) and thus attract attention to it, like shipping a box of diamonds.

I imported the first of a bird morph (white breasted lady Gouldian finches, for those of you who care) into the US years ago. At the time there was a quarantine system, and the government had not yet set up stations for that, so birds had to be quarantined in privately owned and operated stations (govt would inspect them periodically, and ones that died had to be tested for Newcastle Disease, which was the motive for the quarantine then). I brought in six and arranged for them to be quarantined at a station in Chicago; periodically during the 30-day quarantine the operator would sadly, remorsefully, tell me one had died. I think two or three survived to make it to my door in Florida. Less than a year later a guy in California saw i was breeding them and called to buy some more to put with his pair--the pair he had bought from the Chicago quarantine station operator where mine "died"! Happily, the operator was later arrested for violations unrelated to my birds, but nevertheless to my satisfaction (he'd bring in birds, show the govt inspector, move them out days later and replace them with more the next day--the inspector would see a bubch of mexican parrots or whatever still int he same cage, and conclude they were the ones he'd seen there a week earlier. Only...not.

So your challenge is not only to find a customs broker, i think is the service you might need to avail yourself of, but also to assure yourself of their trustworthiness. I think today more of them are big businesses less vulnerable to the sort of abuse that bit me in the...well, you know.

td

Oh thats fine. I to live in Miami and in last month got a yearling Lampropeltis pyromelana and yearling gray banded.

They came fed ex overnight after reading your other post about it being rare with 2 heads which is rare I myself dont know what place to suggest.

I myself find fed ex overnight here to be as good as they were in NY and thats saying a lot as no other co is anywhere near as efficient as in NY but imagine it can differ in different parts of Miami ( I am in Doral)