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Originally Posted by Miss_Croft  Jason - I have read at least one reference the snakes with OPMV (Two strains) originated from two legal imported cobra
The issue is that there are exotics are in Australia (Some more worrying than others – Sliders for example). For what some one this board have stated – in many cases there is a breeding population. The question is where from here? Banning has NOT stopped their import – I have suggested do what they did with the bird keepers – rule a line in the sand and say no more from here and allow the existing ones. This would do a few things:
Make them available on the open market – reduce the need to import because they are been bred locally. If you can buy it openly do you need to risk the years in jail to import it? It will also encourage people to take their exotic pets to the vet when they are sick – instead of dumping them in bush land (Like the recent chameleon incident). This would reduce the current risk of smuggled exotics in Australia.
Sick exotic in the bush = danger to local wildlife. |
Exactly...that is the only way to manage an "overly rife, let's not acknowlede this and hope it goes away issue"! Man. it's not brain Surgery I guess it all comes down to money spent on administrating the extra work load.
It's like drug addiction or sex,(sorry for the analogy), but we have come to accept that the best way to manage drug addiction is to accept that it happens and manage the "safe" use of drugs and offer needle exchange etc. Safe sex is by way of offering condoms to the people that need them. Please, let's not get off the topic here and I don't want this to go down the road of ethics towards the past two examples, but you get my drift!!
We need to accept that there are heap of exotics in the Country, make them legal and manage them appropriately. It's the only sensible way...DUH! Sorry had to say it!
Cheers
PS. Lara your pretty hot, she has always been a fav of mine!!!
in a non-sleazy way!
