Why is everything illegal in wa?!??!?!?!??!?

[CaptainRatbag]

Any one know any legitimate reason why this would be the case? Can't even keep Central Beardies? That is ridiculous. I'm astonished. If I lived over there I'd just keep everything illegally, screw the government. How silly. So does this mean, if I was to move over there so say.. work in the mines, I couldn't bring my reptiles?

My 2 spotted pythons came from a guy from WA. He moved to his parents place here in Qld near me, with his snakes for just a few months. When he decided to go back to WA, there was no way he could take his reptiles with him. Evidently it is illegal to take ANY reptiles into WA even if they were born, bread & previously lived there

If I were you, I would be getting out of WA before it becomes illegal to leave

[Rocky]

All fun things are illegal... Butterfly knives, flick knives, crossbows, fireworks, bb guns, wrist rockets....

I own all of the above. Aside from wrist rockets, what the hell is that? They are only illegal when you get caught Kept in a safe, hidden under the house, bolted to the ground.

[Elapidae1]

My 2 spotted pythons came from a guy from WA. He moved to his parents place here in Qld near me, with his snakes for just a few months. When he decided to go back to WA, there was no way he could take his reptiles with him. Evidently it is illegal to take ANY reptiles into WA even if they were born, bread & previously lived there

If I were you, I would be getting out of WA before it becomes illegal to leave

His spotted Pythons didn't likely come from WA as they are not legal to keep here.
You can import/export all animals that are on our keepers list besides pythons

[richardsc]

no snow in wa though,so may as well be illegal

in wa,u can only keep certain wa species,central beardies arent a wa animal,stop your whining,in victoria we cant keep those dwarf beardies,lol

what i dont get is they cant keep kimberley northerns,and plenty of other wa endemics that thrive in captivity,northerns are pretty hardy compared to westerns and centralians

[CaptainRatbag]

I can only go by what I was told? Anyway..... You cant keep a spotted in WA????


Ummmm .... well, what can you keep if you cant keep the common species's?

[Niall]

We can import Elapids, monitors, frogs, turtles. They just have to be on the licencing system.
Pogona mitchelli are to me a lot better then central beardies but can't legally keep them yet ha.

Who says Arachnids are illegal to keep, got a regulation showing that or is it just an department that say things that aren't true...
We can get away with keeping WA native Arachnids and we have around 2-3 species of tarantulas and over 40 species of large scorpions.

This is what we can legally keep.
Animals - Department of Environment and Conservation

If you can get hold of some Selenotholus sp. Black from the Kimberley, you'll be one happy person since they are a beautiful looking spider and a good size.

[Elapidae1]

I can only go by what I was told? Anyway..... You cant keep a spotted in WA????


Ummmm .... well, what can you keep if you cant keep the common species's?

We can keep Western Stimmies, Antaresia stimsoni stimsoni.
As Spotteds don't occur here we can't keep them, All the animals on our list occur naturally in WA.

If the person you got your Spotteds from had them in WA they were being kept illegally.

[vampstorso]

I own all of the above. Aside from wrist rockets, what the hell is that? They are only illegal when you get caught Kept in a safe, hidden under the house, bolted to the ground.

Probably don't want to admit that with your account linked to your facebook lol...never know who's watching and needs to meet a quota!


What I really don't understand about WA is the insane movement permit costs for animals

[CaptainRatbag]

I just checked the paperwork on my macs and he had put his parents address on the paperwork so he must have had a qld licence. He must have got them here and cant take them back to WA and I misunderstood the story

Cant you just keep your spotted over there and say it is an overgrown stimmy? hehehehe "I just power fed it officer.... honest"

[Tassie97]

Well in Tasmania we cant even keep ANY non venomous snakes.

[Gazza90]

We can also keep SWCP's Don't EVER forget SWCP's.

[ozziepythons]

For the above stated reasons I wouldn't even consider a move to WA, the reptile keeping laws are directed and governed by non herpers and often is fact contemptuous towards herpers. They go after even innocent and law abiding reptile keepers like bounty hunters when out to nab the few hard liners that don't march when ordered

[yommy]

The WA system may severly suck but their animals are awesome, 3/4 of my collection are WA animals and some of the best species you can get in Aus.

Thank god you can export them out and yes the fee's are a bit of a scam but if you want the animals you have to pay.

WA is a beautiful place but i would never live there due to not being able to import.
Worked to hard over the years to get the collection to were it is.

[Lizzy90]

Nice place but our gov is evil!!!! I get why they do it due to the possible fact that reptiles do escape. They don't wanna have to deal with that but they are ways around it. Like say make all non-wa species be a cat 5 and not let anyone who had escapies own one (harsh but it would be better than nothing).

Also I would totally deal with a GTP being in quatenteen for a few months before I got it, if it means I could own one

[bohdi13]

i have been told that WA back in the day when they decided keeping herps was going to be the best state being aloud to keep nearly 300 species from most of aus ? then they cut it down again and again and again