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Well moving to GA meant giving up my 9 corn snakes due to state laws. What in the heck do people down here keep? Ive been looking at some cali kings lately or some ball pythons, what do you guys have??

I only know about turtles, but here's the e-mail of the person I communicated with:
john.jensen@gadnr.org

Georgia is an all or nothing state - if it's protected, the average person can't have it, period, including any non-native subspecies of a native species. If it's not protected, anything goes.

PROTECTED(can’t have):
Maps: Common, Alabama, Barbour’s
Alligator snapper, all T. carolina box, spotted, bog
Diamondback terrapin, gopher tortoise

No permit required for non-protected species. Non-native subspecies of native protected species are treated the same as the species - not allowed. So, western painted turtles are allowed in GA because native painted turtles are legal to have, but Gulf Coast box turtles would not be allowed because eastern box turtles are protected in GA.

WRD Nongame Conservation Section Offices
Headquarters Office
2070 U.S. Highway 278 S.E.
Social Circle, GA 30025
Phone: (770) 761-3035
Fax: (706) 557-3030
http://www.georgiawildlife.org

Katrina

All,

John Jensen is the state herpetologist for Georgia and he supports the academic banning agenda. He has worked against private herpers who have tried to get Georgia's ridiculous laws overturned. I would form a group that works under USARK to get these ridiculous laws over turned in Georgia. Since Georgia is a Republican state for the most part your best bet is to approach them. It will take time to get all these old ridciulous laws over turned. Anything that is not listed as Endangered or Threatened should be allowed to be sustainably harvested, kept, bred and sold.

Welkerii
El Paso, TX

Funny thing though.....in Georgia you can keep ANY VENOMOUS SPECIES found there with no permit and no concerns. But you can't keep a corn snake......?

If you want to do a reptile show in Georgia as a vendor, you have to pay $50 for a weekend State permit to sell animals.

Susan
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