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Shawn Morelan
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Shawn Morelan
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I can assure you the law makers wont use Wikipedia as their reference for this definition....
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Marc Duhon
Lafayette, Louisiana
SURINAMBOAS.COM
kaiyudsai@SURINAMBOAS.COM

Instead of bashing the idea how about helping find a better source that you feel has more merit so maybe we can keep our animals.

Not sure what the heck happened to my first two posts but I was trying to show this link which includes Ball Pythons as Domesticated animals. A long shot maybe but the definition sure seems to fit any morph Boa considering they have been bred for generations out of the wild to fit our needs.

Here is the link

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Shawn Morelan
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I would think that a morph would be considered domestic. We as breeders have greatly altered boas. I would think this would meet the definition.

How do we go about getting this process started?

This approach has been usead before by exotic cat owners fighting for their rights to keep their cats. There are several precidents... but all in all they always state that just because an animal depends on a human for food, and the human may profit from it's existance.... they still consider them Wild animals..... it's the whole term "tame".... if you look at the word
tame: reduced from a state of native wildness especially so as to be tractable and useful to humans

You could I guess argue that your cute boa is tractable..... but the part about being useful to humans... you cant argue that being a comodity as serving a useful purpose for humans.... becasue you can't train them to do anything.... or we don't produce them for meat or a usable commodity...... Not to say we don't find them important..... Im just playing Devils advocate..... This is how the courts think.... they work by twisting semantics..... Maybe if we had enough legal star power we could twist them too.... but this approach has been used before... maybe that would be a good place to start... look at legal precidents surrounding the exotic cat cases
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Marc Duhon
Lafayette, Louisiana
SURINAMBOAS.COM
kaiyudsai@SURINAMBOAS.COM

I'm not well up on the correct definitions and all but being useful to humans, they are very therapeutic. anyone that can clear their mind and just focus on the animal crawling and their muscles moving along your skin in my mind is very therapeutic and relaxing. if that would hold up in court as being useful to humans chances are no but just my 2 cents.

Zack
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Zack Greens Reptiles

And besides song and pets, and at one time use in mines, they are considered a domesticated species...so are many other small birds. Budgerigars are considered domesticated, as are Goldfish & Hamsters.

I know the various domesticated rodents, and even goldfish can be said to be a use animal, regarding being test animals, but the same really can't be said of those small birds.