Places With The Least Tarantula Regulations

[FluffyTheSpider]

Well, I always wanted an Aardvark as a pet, I don’t think I saw that was on the ban. Maybe I’ll move to Canada and walk my pet Aardvark down the street whilst holding a sign protesting the tarantula ban.

Aardvarks are illegal see on number 22

Yeah, thankfully not all of Canada though. I suspect the bans are heavier in areas with higher population density. A venomous animal on the loose in a separated house is much different than one lost in an apartment complex.

Guess i Will go to Antarctica

 

[Chris LXXIX]

Lol it’s too cold in Canada for bats also how do you get your Tarantulas order them or buy them of someone that’s how I got my D.Pentaloris

Well, Canada is too colder for a lot of animals, for that matter. I disagree with those restrictions, not for something, uh... but because they are sorta insane or too full of senseless fears. I mean, ban the home-keeping of B.dubia (or similar roaches) isn't like banning the keeping of potentially lethal venomous snakes -- a scenario where you can add a couple of logical reasons, at least.

Another example... I could keep bats in my home (Canada) after all, yet nope

Yeah, thankfully not all of Canada though. I suspect the bans are heavier in areas with higher population density. A venomous animal on the loose in a separated house is much different than one lost in an apartment complex.

I don't know that much about, of course, but here in this site, during the various discussions about those issues, I've got the idea that Toronto and the 'GTA' are more regulated than the other parts of the nation.

 

[SteveIDDQD]

mmm, I'm not 100% but I believe we have no laws regarding any tarantulas in the UK, they just have to be well cared for like any other animal.
I think you need a licence if you want to own anything super dangerous like a wandering spider.

 

[Zevil]

I believe I live in a place with the strictest law.

 

[Chris LXXIX]

mmm, I'm not 100% but I believe we have no laws regarding any tarantulas in the UK, they just have to be well cared for like any other animal.
I think you need a licence if you want to own anything super dangerous like a wandering spider.

Yep, the UK has pretty relaxed laws on that sense. Correct about a license/permit for keep the 'hot' venomous ones -- at 360°, so not necessarily and only arachnids, of course.

It's called 'DWA license' if I'm not wrong.

 

[The Grym Reaper]

mmm, I'm not 100% but I believe we have no laws regarding any tarantulas in the UK, they just have to be well cared for like any other animal.

I think you need a licence if you want to own anything super dangerous like a wandering spider.

All tarantulas are fine but you need a DWA license to keep the following scorpions/spiders:

Any Buthidae
Hemiscorpius lepturus
Phoneutria spp.
Atrax spp.
Loxosceles spp.
Latrodectus spp.

 

[Patherophis]

Czech rep. - legally inverts are not considered animals there and so they are not regulated in any way.

 

[Chris LXXIX]

Czech rep. - legally inverts are not considered animals there and so they are not regulated in any way.

You mean... legally not considered as 'pets', otherwise doesn't make sense. If inverts aren't animals, what they are, then?

 

[NYAN]

All tarantulas are fine but you need a DWA license to keep the following scorpions/spiders:

Any Buthidae
Hemiscorpius lepturus
Phoneutria spp.
Atrax spp.
Loxosceles spp.
Latrodectus spp.

Ah, so Sicarius, Hexopthalma, Hadronyche and Missulena are allowed?

 

[Chris LXXIX]

Ah, so Sicarius, Hexopthalma, Hadronyche and Missulena are allowed?

If things are that way, doesn't make sense... a S.hahni is by far (from what we know about) more venomous than a L.rufescens

 

[NYAN]

If things are that way, doesn't make sense... a S.hahni is by far (from what we know about) more venomous than a L.rufescens

Does anything that government does really make sense?

 

[The Grym Reaper]

Ah, so Sicarius, Hexopthalma, Hadronyche and Missulena are allowed?

Apparently so, here's the full list

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/2465/schedule/made

Screenshot of the inverts section of the list.

Does anything government that does really make sense?

No, especially not in the UK.

 

[Chris LXXIX]

No, especially not in the UK.

But at least you have Holly Willoughby... if you ask me, she's one of the best 'hotty' of England, and I love to lurk her social media pages

 

[Patherophis]

You mean... legally not considered as 'pets', otherwise doesn't make sense. If inverts aren't animals, what they are, then?

I mean what I have written. Because as NYAN said, since when do laws make sense. Also, I have personaly met several ignorant people who claimed that arthropods are not animals. I was thinking the same thing as You.

 

[dangerforceidle]

If things are that way, doesn't make sense... a S.hahni is by far (from what we know about) more venomous than a L.rufescens

Sicarius hahni was moved to genus Hexophthalma with the rest of the African members of the genus. Your point stands, however, that the list is 'incomplete' and some very venomous species have been omitted from their list.

 

[The Grym Reaper]

But at least you have Holly Willoughby

And Kelly Brook

 

[Chris LXXIX]

And Kelly Brook

Uhm... yes but IMO Holly is on another level. Chris LXXIX Perv o meter explanation:

Watch that crap above. Now the way she says 'It's closa... closer to a British Carbonara' (love how she spell Carbonara). Plus when she laughs, and that nails.

10/10, I would give 5 years of life for bang her

 

[EtienneN]

This might be an unpopular opinion (maybe not), but I feel like a city/country restricting what kind of pets you can have is a form of totalitarianism. However, I'm sure there is a thriving underground market as a direct result of the "law", which is REALLY sad because that hurts the animals more than it does the people.

 

[Chris LXXIX]

This might be an unpopular opinion (maybe not), but I feel like a city/country restricting what kind of pets you can have is a form of totalitarianism. However, I'm sure there is a thriving underground market as a direct result of the "law", which is REALLY sad because that hurts the animals more than it does the people.

No, not always. That's more the 'totalitarism' of idiots in charge, with too much power in their hands.

Take Italy, for instance. I mean, who invented Fascism, aka for everyone "the totalitarist state"? Italy. Yet no one banned arachnids back then, and the Doria Museum of Genova was always into arachnids (T. Thorell studied with Giacomo Doria, in Genova, btw).

Arachnids were banned by the (supposed Democratic) Republic of Italy because those utter morons, one day, pinpointed a container full of arachnids (majority were Scorpions, hot venomous ones -- being fair I have to say this -- in Roma airport) and, Bam! a dumb law in no time was made, a law that banned every arachnid.

This one (notably, straight from the official site of the Italian Parlament):

http://www.camera.it/parlam/leggi/03213l.htm

While prices of arachnids, after this law, skyrocketed (obviously, a lot of breeders went into 'shutdown' mode) no one hurted, in the trade, T's. Only prices changed, of course, due to that insanity

I don't give a damn so I can type this where everyone can see without issues: a dumb law is a dumb law, no matter

Thankfully, the Italian Arachnid Association worked with the back then gov. and managed to get a deal, that's why today we have T's and other venomous inverts

 

[FluffyTheSpider]

No, not always. That's more the 'totalitarism' of idiots in charge, with too much power in their hands.

Take Italy, for instance. I mean, who invented Fascism, aka for everyone "the totalitarist state"? Italy. Yet no one banned arachnids back then, and the Doria Museum of Genova was always into arachnids (T. Thorell studied with Giacomo Doria, in Genova, btw).

Arachnids were banned by the (supposed Democratic) Republic of Italy because those utter morons, one day, pinpointed a container full of arachnids (majority were Scorpions, hot venomous ones -- being fair I have to say this -- in Roma airport) and, Bam! a dumb law in no time was made, a law that banned every arachnid.

This one (notably, straight from the official site of the Italian Parlament):

http://www.camera.it/parlam/leggi/03213l.htm

While prices of arachnids, after this law, skyrocketed (obviously, a lot of breeders went into 'shutdown' mode) no one hurted, in the trade, T's. Only prices changed, of course, due to that insanity

I don't give a damn so I can type this where everyone can see without issues: a dumb law is a dumb law, no matter

Thankfully, the Italian Arachnid Association worked with the back then gov. and managed to get a deal, that's why today we have T's and other venomous inverts

I wish there was a Canadian arachnid association