Reptiles don’t make good pets. Even turtles can spread disease. Keeping anything that is poisonous or deadly large constrictors is stupid, and should be unlawful except for zoos or research institutions.
I should get rid of my pet Black Widows then......................
The problem is that our government and do-gooders ALWAYS go too far. Two examples:
When I first became a professional firefighter not many houses in our jurisdiction did not have a smoke detector. Our department put a lot of effort into encouraging people to install smoke detectors, even giving them away. My wife and I just sold a house that was originally built in 1900. To make it legal in our state we were required to install 14 smoke and CO detectors. We have detectors everywhere; it is wasteful and counterproductive. In new construction all of these units have to be expensive hard-wired units whose planning, purchase, installation and inspection add thousands of $dollars to the price of a new home.
20 years ago, my wife was delayed by a slow down on her way home. A squirrel had been hit by a car and was flopping around in the road. People were stopped and looking at it, while other looky-loos tried to figure out what was going on as they slowly drove by. My wife pulled over on the shoulder, found my firefighter protective clothing in the trunk, put on my leather gloves, picked the squirrel up and carefully wrapped it my nomex hood. All the while others were yelling at her not to go near the squirrel, that it would bite her and give her rabies, and that it was ILLEGAL to help a squirrel and they were going to report her. That is what it is like here in liberal land.
She took the squirrel home, put it in a doggie carrier, then called the “wilderness vet”. She was told by a very authoritative person on the phone that she was illegally harboring a dangerous wild animal and that she could face both fines and jail time and that she was required by law to surrender the squirrel to them so they could euthanize it. My wife hung up.
It took about 3 months for the squirrel to recover from its injuries and then we turned it loose from our house which is in a wilderness area. It was recognizable because it's tail had been damaged in the accident. We put food and water out for it, so she hung around in the tall firs surrounding our house for the next couple years.
She was never particularly appreciative of our efforts, but she did chatter loudly from the trees when we went out on the back porch. I don't think it should be ILLEGAL to help an injured animal even if other do not feel that it is a good idea. In cases like this legislating one size fits all solutions is a bunch of nonsense.