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Anonymous post on August 6, 2004
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My friend who is a rather obsessed with poloitics at all levels suggested an idea by me and I was just curious to hear what other herpers thought.
He suggested that a group of SERIOUS herpers should organize a fund and entity that would keep bad herp issues out of the press by hopefully supressing the situation with money.
He gave me this example: If Bob's friend Mike keeps a pet mamba and one day while Mike, the owner of the mamba, is drunk and free handling his "tame" pet, Bob somehow get bitten.
(Here's where the group come's in) Before Bob can press charges against his buddy Mike and the issue makes the news, the group steps in and offers Bob a little bit of $$$ to shut him up. This way this little drunken mishap goes unseen by the public eye. And no bad press comes to the hobby. I wish the mishap wouldn't have happened but mishaps like this one or the cobra loose in Dallas just keep coming. So...
It seems now that too many un-qualified people are keeping hots and they are constantly threatening the good keepers rights. We sould do what politicans do and, bribe our way out of the lime light. I think this might be one way to avoid those extreme laws that go from "you can keep anything" to "you can't keep garter snakes."
I know this isn't a solution but I don't know how to stop the stupidity without running the risks of loosing my rights as well. And unfortunatly we are a small voting pool that I don't think can pull our own weight in the legislative arena. If I had enough money I would fund this myself because I've already spent god knows how much on my collection and I'm not ready to just watch it be pissed away by some donkey who thinks it's cool to keep atrox in paper bags.
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by JTEDENS on August 6, 2004
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I live in Texas and feel that those cobras that got loose or were let loose in Dallas are an atrocity. I feel that Texas should have a permit system for all exotic venomous. I don't currently have any exotic venomous but will one day. I'm not properly set up for what I want just yet. If there's a permit system in place when I am ready to purchase then I'll have to deal with it. For people that already have exotics they could be 'grandfathered in' if they can pass a test within six months to show competency with the animals and a comptetent knowledge of their PROPER housing requirements. if everyone was properly regulated and kept their animals in good environments we shouldn't need anything like your bribery suggestion. I also feel each state should have some form of an antivenin bank funded partly by permit fees. Of course you can't keep evey idiot down and someone is going to screw things up. That's why the permit should be required. As far as somebody getting bitten by one of your animals, you should be held fully accountable up to a charge of manslaughter if they die from it. After all the animal only does what comes natural, you are responsible for keeping it away from people. That's why it lives in a cage in the first place.
John
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