Posted on 02/07/2022 4:40:15 PM PST by Louis Foxwell
House Resolution 5421, passed on party lines, and Senate bill S626 will amend the Lacy act to prohibit the transportation into or within the US of all live animals of all types. Exceptions are: 1 - farm animals 2 - cats and dogs 3 - any animal that was traded in very large numbers during the calendar year 2021. It should be noted that the pandemic greatly reduced animal shipments during 2021.
This will destroy most of the pet industry. Only those most popular 50 species of fish sold by chain stores in vast quantities will be listed. It should be noted that the common Plecostomus is the most injurious and most popular fish in the industry. Clearly the bill is not about the protection of anything other than special interests.
This law, if passed will create a white list of approved species. ALL others will be banned. The result will be loss of income of indigenous people world wide and the loss of habitats hobbyists have been protecting for 75 years.
The unintended consequences of this foolish legislation will cause the extinction of thousands of species currently protected by the pet industry. Mining, logging, and farming interests are anxious to purchase this land. Once it is no longer of economic value for its natural life it will be destroyed.
Send a message to your US Senators urging them to VOTE NO to amendments to HR4521 impacting the Lacey Act.
Father Fish
Does not DC have actual real problems to address (such as our wide open border)?
One quick question: Will Pit Bull Dogs be banned?
That would actually be a public service.
Will someone try to smuggle in a gerbil?
I have a cousin who breeds snakes and operates a reptile pet store. This doesn’t sound good for guys like him.
Mare Pete might, but you don’t want to know where he’s hiding it.
On the other hand, some folks have a bad habit of introducing invasive species into places like Florida and the Mississippi River, making massive headaches for people. I don’t know if the legislation is a good idea, but I am not sold that this is necessarily the work of a greedy cartel.
“One quick question: Will Pit Bull Dogs be banned? That would actually be a public service.”
Don’t ban the dogs, ban the irresponsible dog owners. And I bet you’re one of those folks who wants to ban guns, an inanimate object, but not the people who misuse them.
If parrots are included in the ban, that’s the end for Talk Like a Pirate Day.
There’s a pretty big trade in capturing invasives in Florida and shipping them as pets to places where they won’t thrive in the wild.
Those aren’t pets...they are pests.
Unfortunately the CDC recently stopped the import of village dogs from the middle east. Very excellent animals, if you are lucky enough to have one.
If Judge Judy has anything to say about it they will!
I guess the author of the article never researched the effects that importing and selling non-native species as pets-such as Iguanas, Pythons and other snakes has had on the landscape and native wildlife in Florida-people get tired of their exotic pets when they grow bigger, unsafe to handle and are no longer “cute”-so they turn them loose in the wild spaces, where they breed and consume native vegetation and animals. i say stop importing any exotic-type animals for the pet trade from other countries...
Well you know where.
I agree...ive been almost licked and wiggled to pieces by a number of big ole pitties
We cannot allow some animals to come across our border, but human filth can unencumbered.
Dogs are not inanimate objects.
Not that it matters with the Washington crowd, but WHY???
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