HR669 - Nonnative Wildlife Invasion Prevention Act

[dashnu]

It will never fly... IMHO it been blown out of proportion. People have been talking about it for a while now. They will not pass a bill right now that will worsen our economy. This bill clearly will.

[Stefan-A]

It will never fly... IMHO it been blown out of proportion. People have been talking about it for a while now. They will not pass a bill right now that will worsen our economy. This bill clearly will.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

[dashnu]

yea true we have done worse.

[drache]

ha, i've got it
this bill was thought up by bureaucrats who just want to put a stop once and for all to their kid pestering them about the stupid hamster they want

[Stefan-A]

Whoever came up with it, I can't believe they actually think it would have the desired effect. Where do they think the banned nonnative animals will end up? Where do they think the native animals that will replace them will come from?

[drache]

yup - it'd end up being one of those un-enforceable laws, just because law-enforcement has bigger issues to deal with than routing out contraband pets
it's already like that with our restrictive laws in NYC - that cop walking through your living room to see whether the guy they're looking for is hiding out on your fire escape, is going to completely ignore the nile monitor, a) because they don't know what they're looking at, and b) if they admitted that they did know what they were seeing, they'd have to fill out a crap-load of paperwork and wait until animal control shows up, and . . . and they're on a different track at the moment, and animal control really doesn't want to hear from them - particularly not if the animal seems well-cared for, because now - because of the law, they have to come up with some place for the animal or euthanize it
I don't think this law is going to be met with cheers from the law enforcement community either
frankly I'm still trying to figure out who would greet this with cheers, other than said bureaucrat with the pain-in-the-butt kid wanting a pet

[Stefan-A]

frankly I'm still trying to figure out who would greet this with cheers, other than said bureaucrat with the pain-in-the-butt kid wanting a pet

Organizations like Peta, who aim at banning all pets eventually and the average exotic pet-hater, who openly admits that he/she can't (and does not want to) understand why anyone would like to keep them anyway. And then there's the misguided uneducated environmentalist types, who refuse to take the consequences into account.

And various others, who don't expect there to be any unintended consequences, or who choose to conveniently ignore them.

[drache]

oh - I forgot about most of those, and I suppose I may not be taking them seriously enough, but it is true that some of them make rather more noise than their numbers warrant

[bkhuff1s]

No on HR669 - Morelia Viridis Forum - chondro - Morelia Viridis - Message Board - Yuku

They are trying to ban non native reptiles

Bryan

[Stefan-A]

I merged the threads, hope you don't mind, Bryan.