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The Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (DECCW) is offering a number of reptiles for disposal through a ballot. The following species have been identified for the Department and are advertised as:

2 Eastern Small-blotched Python (Antaresia maculosa) (juvenile)
1 Jacky Dragon (Amphibolurus muricatus)
1 Carpet Python (Morelia spilota)
1 Eastern Snake-Necked Turtle (Chelodina longicollis)
1 Saw-shelled turtle (Elseya sp.)
1 Eastern Water Dragon (Physignathus lesueurii) (juvenile)

Every effort has been made to correctly identify these animals. The Department cannot guarantee the identification of an animal offered though the ballot system.

These animals have been seized during recent law enforcement investigations. Some of these animals may have been caught in the wild and their original capture locations are unknown. The return of these animals to the wild is not a responsible conservation option.

The Department recommends that a veterinarian checks all animals received through the ballot system and a reptile hygiene protocol be followed.

If you wish to be included in the ballot you must register your interest by 11.00 AM Monday 8th March 2010. Registrations received after this time will not be accepted. You can register your interest by either a faxed message to 02 9585 6401 or an emailed message to [email protected]

Phone inquiries will not be accepted.

Your registration must include the following:

1. the words DECCW BALLOT in the title of your fax or email
2. your full name
3. your address
4. a prioritised list of the animals you would like to register for
5. your current NSW Animal Keepers’ Licence number authorising the possession of the animals you have registered for
6. your contact number between 12.45PM and 1:15PM on Monday 8th March 2010
7. NOTE: only one individual animal per licensee can be provided

Any registrations that do not include all of the above will be excluded from the ballot. Licences will be checked before the ballot. Expired licences or licensees whose fauna record books we have not received for 2009 will also be excluded from the ballot.


NB: If you are successful in the ballot you must be available to collect the animal from the Department’s Hurstville office between 2.30PM and 3.30PM on Tuesday 9th March 2010. If you intend to have someone collect the animals from our office on your behalf they must have permission from you IN WRITING. Verbal permission will not be accepted.

If you are successful:

1. you will be notified by phone between 12.45PM and 1.15PM on Monday 8th March 2010;
2. you must collect the animal from the Department’s Hurstville office between 2.30PM and 3.30PM on Tuesday 9th March 2010. If you are unable to collect your animal during this time it will be forfeited to the next available person; and
3. you must bring a hard-shelled lockable container to transport your animal.
 
Not as many premium snakes as the Coff's one, but here's your chance Sydneysiders!
 
Nice Jac, ive enetered this 1. Last one i entered i won a Central Bearded...which is actually a Pygmy Bearded lol. He came with an abscess on his foot...not eating. Happy n healthy now! Good luck all!
 
Congrats! Feels great, doesn't it :D. Post some photos when you get a chance.
 
I got a BHP in the coffs one, pick up tomorrow yay! Gotta love the lack of info though, no idea if its m/f or hatchy or adult lol
 
Unfortuanly one of my 5 Mountain Dragons that i won in the other ballot passed away last night :( He was the one with the red on him.
 
Tough news snakemadness. I hope the others are doing okay.

DEC don't take the animals to the vet - cost would be prohibitive - so you take the risk of unwell and misidentified animals. They are very upfront about it and recommend that you see a vet. I got lucky with a healthy male MD, but made the vet appt before I picked it up.

I hope your BHP is a beauty 'thefew...." Post photos!
 
Tough news snakemadness. I hope the others are doing okay.

DEC don't take the animals to the vet - cost would be prohibitive - so you take the risk of unwell and misidentified animals. They are very upfront about it and recommend that you see a vet. I got lucky with a healthy male MD, but made the vet appt before I picked it up.

I hope your BHP is a beauty 'thefew...." Post photos!

so true. i won a whipsnake in a previous ballot and it died within a day of picking it up from the DECCW didnt even have time to get it to the vet appointment. it sucked but it wasnt the DECCW's fault, it was obviously long sick and i blame the previous owner (pretty sure it was WC).
 
so true. i won a whipsnake in a previous ballot and it died within a day of picking it up from the DECCW didnt even have time to get it to the vet appointment. it sucked but it wasnt the DECCW's fault, it was obviously long sick and i blame the previous owner (pretty sure it was WC).
Tough times, but that's why they are giving them away. At least you are blaming the right person. Some people take shocking care of their animals. DECCW are a regulatory agency, not an animal rescue charity. I was lucky and got an animal that had been surrendered to the RSPCA and kept by a decent herp keeper. He was fat and had worms, but otherwise great. I'd hate to have spent $100 on David Vella and had the animal die right away!

BTW - the MD I won was correctly identified in the ad, but misidentified as a coastal in the paperwork they gave me.:rolleyes: I'm sure they got it right for the womas and BHPs in Coffs, but some of the Morelia and Antaresia can be mixed up easily if you just have a quick look.
 
If you are successful:

1. you will be notified by phone between 12.45PM and 1.15PM on Monday 8th March 2010;
2. you must collect the animal from the Department’s Hurstville office between 2.30PM and 3.30PM on Tuesday 9th March 2010. If you are unable to collect your animal during this time it will be forfeited to the next available person; and
3. you must bring a hard-shelled lockable container to transport your animal.[/QUOTE]

Also be sure to take a bag/pillow slip, they forget to tell you that.
 
If you are successful:

1. you will be notified by phone between 12.45PM and 1.15PM on Monday 8th March 2010;
2. you must collect the animal from the Department’s Hurstville office between 2.30PM and 3.30PM on Tuesday 9th March 2010. If you are unable to collect your animal during this time it will be forfeited to the next available person; and
3. you must bring a hard-shelled lockable container to transport your animal.

Also be sure to take a bag/pillow slip, they forget to tell you that.[/QUOTE]

last time the animals were already bagged up ready to go, but i guess i would be a good idea to bring your own just in case..
 
whoo hoo, won the eastern blotched python, I never won anything before. very happy
 
nice. I didn't get a call :(
oh well lol

edit: Dont forget to post a few pics of it up.
 
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