Quote Originally Posted by MichaelSmith View Post
For Mustang:

Please have a look at this: CHAPTER 65WILDLIFE SUBCHAPTER OCOMMERCIAL NONGAME PERMITS RULE §65.331Commercial ActivityThe limitation I mentioned about T. radix and the limitation on trading in T. sirtalis comes from this. Please read before knee-jerking...

Neither garter snake is listed as threatened. However, regarding trade, Texas has a blacklist and a whitelist. If a species is on the blacklist, you cannot breed and sell or trade them. This, unfortunately, includes the plains garter snake and the "common" garter. Since Texas has listed it only at the species level, this would include the area with Texas garters in central to north Texas as well as the area of eastern garters in SE Texas. I've kept and bred Texas garters before, and they are neat snakes that are spottily distributed but not currently endangered. However, I could not keep and breed them now, unless I wanted to keep all the babies myself.

The whitelist shows the species that you can trade in. You won't find radix or sirtalis on the whitelist.
but it dosnt say anything about the breeders who had them before this permit so they wont be imported since they were born here ...also u can goto reptilesncritters.com beceause theyre office is in NY but breeders are in TX ...i believe ammarillo so if theyre born here theyre not imported!!! Also this so called white list i believe is just a general idea beceause its too broad of a topic or else the would have made a big post about it...i emailed Texas Parks & wildlife about it i shjoud get a reply sooner or later