Newbie - Salutations, Licence ETA and Photography

[Jaymis]

Hi Guys. I've been reading the site (voraciously) for a couple of days, and today finally sent off my licence form, so I feel like a real Herpster now and should probably post and make myself known

I've always been fascinated by snakes and have wanted a pet one for ages, but student life and semi-regular international travel didn't seem best lifestyle for keeping herps. Now things have settled down though, so I've researched everything I can think of, discussed it with my Girly, informed my flatmates and yes, sent off the licence application.

So now I'm wondering - how long does it take for approval? I've been seeing all of these fantastic pictures and it's starting to get a bit much for me to bear! I'm thinking that if the licence takes more than a week or so I might have to stop checking out the site, otherwise there's a real risk that I may snap and end up posting photos of my new rubber surrogate "pet".

Speaking of photos: I'm really impressed with the quality pictures showing up here. I'm a video producer and web designer, so I see a lot of photography both terrible and wonderful, and there's some truly great stuff here.

Now I'm going to put the mouse down and walk away. Great to meet you all, I've been pleasantly surprised at the thriving little community which exists here.

Jaymis

[Magpie]

Jaymis, what state are you in (apart from over-eager )? Diferent states have diferent licensing bodies and so the wait varies.
Have you decided what you want yet? There'll be a heap of hatchies for sale in about 3-6 months from now.

[inthegrass]

welcome to the site jaymis.
cheers

[shamous1]

Welcome jaymis. When I applied for our permit it took 7 weeks. Could have killed those nice people at DSE

If you are in Victoria it is pretty busy this time of the year with renewals etc and I think they (the DSE) get a bit swamped.

[Julie-anne]

I'm in NSW and from memory it only took about a week for my licence to come through after i applied.
Welcome to the site, once you purchase your first herp the value of this site will triple, with so many experienced herpers it's a wealth of knowledge

[hornet]

i'm in qld and i got mine in bout 5 working days

[Pythoninfinite]

NSW generally seems pretty good - I'm in country NSW and have never had to wait more than 4-5 days for any license stuff, including import permits etc. Not to say it can't happen, but if there's a problem or irregularity you want sorted out, they've been very helpful on the phone too.

Good luck and welcome!

Jamie.

[Serpant_Lady]

sdOH YAY!!! sent off for my licence on thursday and was expecting 14 days!!!!
YAYAYAYAY

[Veredus]

IM in NSW and mine took about 3 weeks, but that was because they sent it to the wrong address.... A Mister Jessica something or other, which struck me as a little odd

[Serpant_Lady]

Just wanted to say Jaymis that I know exactly how you feel. I am addicted to this site and I'm not sure it will lessen when I finally do get a snake.
Just waiting not so patiently and everytime I walk past the empty tank I get excited. Its ok you've been bitten by the bug. The is no cure

[Jaymis]

Originally Posted by magpie

what state are you in ... Have you decided what you want yet?

I'm in Brisbane, just realised that profile has both "Location" and "Actual Location", and neither of these seem to be coming up underneath my name

I was thinking that I'd be really original and get something Children's-ish. Apparently Just Reptiles in Ipswich have some 7-month old Stimsons Pythons, so I thought that sounded quite good.

Originally Posted by Julie-anne

once you purchase your first herp the value of this site will triple

I can imagine. It has already answered loads of questions for me (and brought up plenty more, and then answered those as well). It's quite funny because I think I took a day or so of seriously researching the subject, but once I found APS everything became much clearer

Cheers for all of the replies. I feel very welcome.

[Lucas]

My NSW lic took a week and my ACT took about 2

[BlindSnake]

Im in SA and I got mine straight away.. I applied at the offiice and they issued me a paper lic there and then.

Have to say I thought it was a little too easy..
May have changed now tho.. that was about 10 years ago.

[Jaymis]

I applied at the offiice and they issued me a paper lic there and then

I'd actually thought of trying that as I work from home so I could just drop in to the NPWS office and say hi Decided that the wait might do me good though.

[RevDaniel]

Welcome to the site though mate