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Old 02-18-2007, 10:35 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Re: Just Gotta Ask...

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Originally Posted by suzoo View Post
I did not know we could not own them in the US. Not even if you can prove they were bought elsewhere?
Yep, they're a federally protected species, you'd need a special permit to have them and even with that, it's been designated that it's too hard to tell captive bred "legal" animals from wildcaught ones, so there's just a blanket policy that they are totally illegal to posess. That's why you don't even see them in zoo's too much. If the snakes breed, it's too much a pain in the *** to get rid of the babies that the zoos don't even want to deal with them.
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