Lori's snakes and such

[dashnu]

I love all those Hoggys... Wish I could keep them

I'll probably break the law again if I keep seeing these pics!

[count dewclaw]

I love all those Hoggys... Wish I could keep them

I'll probably break the law again if I keep seeing these pics!

Couldn't you get a western hoggy, they are not native to Maine.

Lori, the tanks look like they would keep your snakes very happy!

[dashnu]

Couldn't you get a western hoggy, they are not native to Maine.

Lori, the tanks look like they would keep your snakes very happy!

I cant keep anything... If it not on this list I cant keep it.


Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife - Unrestricted Fish and Wildlife Species

[count dewclaw]

And I thought NY was restrictive...sorry, that's no fun.

[drache]

NY is more restrictive in some ways and in fact if I read the NY laws correctly, I believe " . . . all venomous, mid-or rear-fanged, Duvernoy-glanded members of the family Colubridae, even if devenomized;" includes hognoses
in addition we do not get to keep Rosy Boas or Kenyan Sand Boas, or "any member, or hybrid offspring of the family Boidae"
let's all move to Pennsylvania, I say

[Zephyr]

NY is more restrictive in some ways and in fact if I read the NY laws correctly, I believe " . . . all venomous, mid-or rear-fanged, Duvernoy-glanded members of the family Colubridae, even if devenomized;" includes hognoses
in addition we do not get to keep Rosy Boas or Kenyan Sand Boas, or "any member, or hybrid offspring of the family Boidae"
let's all move to Pennsylvania, I say

In Michigan it's a free-for-all. lol

[Garter_Gertie]

Aundrea and Lori, I got my Hoggies because they're native MN snakes. I got Westerns as they seem easier to take care of - the Easterns seem to need more herpy/froggie kind'a things.

We kept an Eastern for a day at the park, to use in the snake demonstration, and we COULD NOT get that bugger to strike, play dead - nuttin'! Dave even went nose-to-nose with it! Literally! He put his face down in front of the Eastern and it just sat there. And it was WILD CAUGHT. Hoggies quickly learn not to waste energy.

Niizh, I think, is starting to learn 'my' day. When I get home from work he comes and does his rambling. But I don't know what he did during the day - as far as rambling goes. He'll stay out quite a bit and stare at me.... And ramble and have the bestest time!

I've noticed on the weekends he likes to sleep in.

I 'sift' Niizh out when I want to see him if he's not out. And I handle him daily. He's gotten so laid back he no longer runs for cover when I snap the clamp on the tank screen. And just lies there while I pick him up. He comes out WAY MORE than he did when I first got him, and he'll let me skritch him and rub him 'through the glass.'

Aundrea, Hoggies - Westerns - rank rite up there with garters for "first time snakes." But make sure you get CBB and have a good breeder that will help you and stand by you and his/her snake for the life o'that snake.

For a newb, the first year with a Hoggy is the hardest. They can get SO PERSNICKTY and go off feed in the bat of an eye. Nuttin' wrong with them, that's just a Hoggie. It can give you an ulcer.

What can I say? This has been ssssoooo long... But I LOVE HOGGIES TO DEATH!

[Garter_Gertie]

OH MY GODS!
Rhea, that's horrible! I'm so sorry for you.
What stupid laws. Unless, maybe?, it's because Hoggies are native and rare there? That's the only reason I can think of for such a stringent, restrictive law.

Unless it got passed by some chicken-$h!t idiot that doesn't know Hoggies.

NY is more restrictive in some ways and in fact if I read the NY laws correctly, I believe " . . . all venomous, mid-or rear-fanged, Duvernoy-glanded members of the family Colubridae, even if devenomized;" includes hognoses
in addition we do not get to keep Rosy Boas or Kenyan Sand Boas, or "any member, or hybrid offspring of the family Boidae"
let's all move to Pennsylvania, I say

[drache]

In Michigan it's a free-for-all. lol

Michigan - really?
other than that you live there and that it's got a lot of lakefront and a women's music festival, I had not known anything about Michigan previously, so this bit of info constitutes 25% of my total knowledge of Michigan, but it's got to have a slightly higher qualitative value than the one about the amount of lakefront - thanks bro

and my apologies to Lori about taking her thread to another state

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

I really can't complain about PA laws... I can pretty much have whatever I want... just as long as I don't sell anything I find within this state.