!!garters illegal in Ontario!!

[Josh]

Ummmm...hate to break it to you, but they have. You can only posess or collect a single individual speices of native PA herp that's not a species of interest, threatened or endangered. You can get permits for I think about $20 per snake this year yet to "grandfather" any snakes you already have, but the collection of any more would be considered illegal. If any one in PA is interested, I have copies of the current herp laws (as of Jan. 2007) for the state. They do make allowances for colour variants that occur outside the state, like melanistics, flames and Fla. blues and also don't count "specialty" morphs like albinos and such. (Had to fight to get that put into the laws!!!)

Roy

So for me to have an eastern is illegal?????
and yes im interested in the herp laws!

[GarterGuy]

So for me to have an eastern is illegal?????
and yes im interested in the herp laws!

No, it's not illegal. You can have ONE native herp that's not on the special interest list.....you just can't have two.....that were wild caught. You can have as many as you want that are captive bred, but you need to have documentation stating that they are captive bred snakes. I'll be posting the herp laws for PA on here soon. It's several pages long and I'm trying to filter out the stuff that doesn't deal with snakes (ie. snapping turtles and such).

Roy