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I live in Mi., non native venomous are legal here. I want to go on a road trip to buy some hots down around the Carolinas for myself and the few other hot keepers around here.

If anyone else has done this, I could use some advice. Do those Dealers in that area even allow you to pick up?

States involved would be Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee (drive thru only), and Carolinas, Georgia. I know you can't pick up in Fla.

What about laws? i.e. Would it be legal to drive the animals thru Tenn. on the way home? Are there other potential problems I havent thought of?

Any advice would be appreciated. Rocket

Don't know about all of them, but North Carolina protects some native venomous species. It wouldn't be good to get nabbed with
those.

i might be mistaken here, so please double check--i wrote down all of the laws a little over a year ago, but some may have changed since.

ohio: as long as you do not have crotalus h. horridus (timber rattlesnake) or sisturus catanatus (eastern massauga), you have nothing to worry about.

kentucky: nothing to worry about at all.

tennessee: you cannot have sisturus miliarus streckeri (western pygmy rattlesnake).

north carolina: numerous protected species--crotalus adamanteus (eastern diamondback), crotalus h. horridus (timber), crotalus h. atricaudus (canebreak), sisturus m. miliarus (carolina pygmy), and micrurius fulvius (coral snake)

south carolina: no problems here.

georgia: requires a permit to possess exotic venomous...you may want to plan an alternate route, or just be really careful driving through georgia.

again, these were all over a year ago, so you may want to check with each state individually just to make sure.
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currently have:
boids:
1.1 ball pythons (snake'n'bake, sally)
1.0 reticulated python (mousetrap)
1.0 children's python (a***ole)
1.0 macklot's python (shaft)
1.0 cook's tree boa (cookie)

colubrids:
1.0 leucistic texas rat (ice)
0.1 everglades rat (flame)
1.0 eastern coachwhip (waco)
1.1 corn snakes (on the cob, creamed)
1.0 albino striped cal king (183)
0.0.1 mangrove (fonzie)

venomous:
1.0 western diamondback rattlesnake (elvis)
0.1 albino monacled cobra (spot)
0.1 cottonmouth (elizabeth)
1.0 gaboon viper (muffin)
0.1 pope's pit vipers (cyclops)

lizards:
1.0 nile monitor (dick)
0.1 blue tongue skink (skinky)
1.1 mali uromastyx (archie, edith)
0.1 monkey tail skink (skinky v)
0.1 bearded dragon (stump)

turtles/tortoises:
1.0 common snapper (snapple)
0.0.1 sulcata (tortle)

inverts:
0.0.? black widows
0.0.1 deathstalker scorpion (fredo)

I see a lot of folks are reading this post, but not too many responses. If you would rather not discuss this in a public forum, you can email me at jsrocket@sbcglobal.net Thanks, Richard