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...here in FL, the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has their guidlines that include minimum cage requirements for animals including snakes.
Does your state have them? Are they seemingly strict? Lenient?
I think some states are much more in touch than others. What do you think?
How does it affect your systems or whatever?
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

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Hey Mark nice topic. I brought this up on the milk snake forum a while back and I think Fl's laws are reasonable even if most don't follow them. For others not familiar, the humane keeping regs on snakes says that two continuos sides of the caging must be as long or longer than the snake with a max single side of 6ft. In other words a 5 foot king snake must be in a 3 long by 2 wide or some other combo there of to equal 5 feet. I don't remember the height requirements.

Sadly most large scale keepers don't meet the caging standards and the big boids get screwed because the biggest cage a 20 foot python is required to be provided is 6 feet long by... help me out Mark here but I think it is 4 feet that the width tops out at. No matter how wide 6 long is to short for the big boids.

For this forum though the regs they put forth are fine for kings in mine opinion. I wish it would be enforced more but then again I wish it didn't need to be and the thought of Fish and Wildlife running around in people's home is not appealing at all. More government is always a bad thing.

Later Jason

Yeah agree with you. You're in IL. nowadays?? What if any regs. are "in place" there?
Was just curious how they may differ from state to state.
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

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Sadly I don't know of any here. There might be. I had someone tell me that their state regs call for chicken cages. I can't remember what state it was though. Il has the cute little "dangerous" law which is so vague that the state could take away about anything over 6 feet. Like I said before though less is more in laws.

Later Jason

I'm not aware of any caging regulations in Louisiana except for the big snakes (> 12 ft) and poisonous snakes. For those, the regulations mostly state that the cage must be escape-proof. I don't remember reading a size regulation.

To own a native snake, one must have a fishing license. To own a non-native snake, there are no regulations.

While I hate the thought of people not caring for their animals properly, I'm glad that we don't have regulations in Louisiana. There's no good way to provide enforcement, and most laws of that kind become a harassment of the innocent while doing nothing to hinder the guilty.

Bill
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It's not how many snakes you have. It's how happy and healthy you can keep them.

....morality.
I agree that there needs to be some sort of guidelines without the threat of Big Brother barging in on you.
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

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