HR669 - Nonnative Wildlife Invasion Prevention Act

[drache]

yup - it'd end up being one of those un-enforceable laws, just because law-enforcement has bigger issues to deal with than routing out contraband pets
it's already like that with our restrictive laws in NYC - that cop walking through your living room to see whether the guy they're looking for is hiding out on your fire escape, is going to completely ignore the nile monitor, a) because they don't know what they're looking at, and b) if they admitted that they did know what they were seeing, they'd have to fill out a crap-load of paperwork and wait until animal control shows up, and . . . and they're on a different track at the moment, and animal control really doesn't want to hear from them - particularly not if the animal seems well-cared for, because now - because of the law, they have to come up with some place for the animal or euthanize it
I don't think this law is going to be met with cheers from the law enforcement community either
frankly I'm still trying to figure out who would greet this with cheers, other than said bureaucrat with the pain-in-the-butt kid wanting a pet

[Stefan-A]

frankly I'm still trying to figure out who would greet this with cheers, other than said bureaucrat with the pain-in-the-butt kid wanting a pet

Organizations like Peta, who aim at banning all pets eventually and the average exotic pet-hater, who openly admits that he/she can't (and does not want to) understand why anyone would like to keep them anyway. And then there's the misguided uneducated environmentalist types, who refuse to take the consequences into account.

And various others, who don't expect there to be any unintended consequences, or who choose to conveniently ignore them.