Banning Iguanas and Tegus in Florida...

[Decadancin]

Legislation introduced... Not good...

http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bil...0FPrk-KtK2Mq9nEUqsESUc0cDDBWRmWqjmXZ8mqVHbbp4

 

[Decadancin]

Many other reptiles on the list...

 

[janjan20]

Hopefully they keep chameleons off the list...

 

[Brodybreaux25]

Surprised it’s taken this long...

 

[Decadancin]

Hopefully they keep chameleons off the list...

This needs to be stopped. It will just get more and more stringent if this starts. Especially considering how there are old world chameleons living here in the wild already. It will only be a matter of time.

 

[Kaizen]

Please forgive my ignorance, but is the concern here something like the following:

1) Pit bulls are a problem because (supposedly) they are aggressive dogs prone to bite.
2) but darn, German shepherds, Rottweilers, Dobermans and a ton of others seems to fit this (mistaken) view
3) so are they gonna ban them too?

 

[JoXie411]

This needs to be stopped. It will just get more and more stringent if this starts. Especially considering how there are old world chameleons living here in the wild already. It will only be a matter of time.

Well said

 

[JoXie411]

Please forgive my ignorance, but is the concern here something like the following:

1) Pit bulls are a problem because (supposedly) they are aggressive dogs prone to bite.
2) but darn, German shepherds, Rottweilers, Dobermans and a ton of others seems to fit this (mistaken) view
3) so are they gonna ban them too?

I lived in a community that all those dogs where banned. I laughed when I seen the list and said the only dog that’s ever bite me was a Chihuahua

 

[Kaizen]

Yeah, this is troubling. I wish I had more to add, but I’m unfamiliar with Floridian jurisprudence.

 

[Decadancin]

Please forgive my ignorance, but is the concern here something like the following:

1) Pit bulls are a problem because (supposedly) they are aggressive dogs prone to bite.
2) but darn, German shepherds, Rottweilers, Dobermans and a ton of others seems to fit this (mistaken) view
3) so are they gonna ban them too?

They are considered “priority invasive species” according to the wording. Iguanas are actually not introduced here as most say. They did arrive down in the Keys on natural rafts carried by the currents. What impact they have is debatable, but banning them? Besides, what exactly is a reptile of concern? Could be anything.

 

[Decadancin]

I know USARK fights against this yearly, but you never know.

 

[Kaizen]

From the legalese, it seems as though they are cautious enough to name actual species, which makes it less likely that a blanket ban on all species of chameleon would be enacted. Although, I doubt calyptratus has a bright future in Floridian law.

 

[Decadancin]

Next up, domestic cats...

 

[CamoChameleonsHuman]

So what happens if you already have the animal? You gotta get rid of it or you gotta get a grandfather permit for it?

 

[Kaizen]

Retro active legislation is among the worst bastardizations of law. It’ll have to be a grandfather situation. Otherwise there’ll be constitutional hell to pay.

 

[Decadancin]

So what happens if you already have the animal? You gotta get rid of it or you gotta get a grandfather permit for it?

Depends. Some can be kept for the remainder of its life, some will have to be transferred. Still too much legal crap to know the entire truth.

 

[Kaizen]

Well, I live about as far away from Florida as you can get in North America, and I know enough to pitty the fool who rolls up on a Floridian and tells them to surrender their pet. I know, unhelpful comment, but I feel ya Florida!

 

[MissSkittles]

Holding back on voicing political beliefs, but don’t the lawmakers have more important things to work on than banning reptiles?

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Ban iguanas?
How many do you want?
The neighborhood is full of them.
Why ban them? Nobody here would actually buy one!

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Well, I live about as far away from Florida as you can get in North America, and I know enough to pitty the fool who rolls up on a Floridian and tells them to surrender their pet. I know, unhelpful comment, but I feel ya Florida!

Indeed