andynic07
Very Well-Known Member
It appears that the authorities in Queensland are starting to enforce the rules around hybrids as I have heard of someone getting fined and snakes being confiscated. Has anyone else heard of this happening?
Is it subspecies crosses or species crosses they are targeting. I can't see them chasing someone with intergrades.
Isnt this a case of shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted LOL. Take all this out of the hands of the wildlife authorities and treat them as what they are, pets.
Bit different for you though Boa
They are not native animals up your way
Where they are a native animal they deserve some level of protection even if their conservation use in future is highly doubtful and many are treated as family pets
The easy answer to this is look at the number of threads that start with "Help! My snake has escaped".Isnt this a case of shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted LOL. Take all this out of the hands of the wildlife authorities and treat them as what they are, pets.
Bit different for you though Boa
They are not native animals up your way
Where they are a native animal they deserve some level of protection even if their conservation use in future is highly doubtful and many are treated as family pets
Exactly. Although boa is correct about the stable door, he has never understood the connection between management of pet reptiles in an extremely reptile-rich environment, and the self-limiting effects of the environmentally ruined and climatically adverse reptile desert into which he has chosen to return. That's not to say that the management of reptile keepers here in Oz is anything but chaotic and ineffective either...
Ashley, just once in a while it would be nice if you said something positive about reptile keeping in Australia instead of the constant sideswipes you seem compelled to make about reptile keeping in this country. You've made your choice to go back to the UK with all the reptile treasures you covet, be happy with that (I'm sure you are) and try not to sound so superior. If Australia had the same climate as the UK across its length and breadth, you'd probably have to find something else to poke your stick at.
Jamie
looks like all the cross bred morphs just became ''pure''. All this is going to do is make everyone lie about what they are breeding... I would ask them to prove it in a court of law it was a cross before handing anything over.
I have not suggested they shouldnt be protected but for them to come under the protection of the wildlife authority is ridiculous, they should be covered by a different section altogether. Pets and native animals are very different.
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Hi Jamie, how have you been?
It will achieve nothing. Just another example of throwing their weight around. If they were serious about it they would have done something at the start not now.
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