tarantual permit? were to obtain?

[ShellsandScales]

You should be able to get a USDA invertebrate permit or liscence. That should bypass any local or city law. The USDA would be able to tell you what if any state or Federal laws would apply to you. I find it unusual that tarantulas would be illegal if you live in the US. Here in Omaha, NE we have the humane society and they try to impose a bunch of their own "laws" but anything outside of city limits is out of their jursdiction. Last year the humane society representative came by our table at the local reptile show and tried to tell us that we couldn't have T's. We asked them to show any law supporting that and after that they left us alone. Humane society here likes to try and confiscate anything they can so they can turn around and sell it. I got charge for my LEGAL boa because they didn't believe me that it was on THIER list of legal snakes! Cost me $65!! I wouldn't worry very much about any kind of local enforcement like that. Anything state or federal level I would get the truth about the laws from the USDA. They should give it to you straight.

 

[dragon_95]

ditch the permit . the police dont care . theres already too many things in their minds ...drugs , robberies , riots ...etc

 

[pitbulllady]

Man, Ontario just about bans everything, don't they? Not to knock your home, but it really makes me glad I live in one of those "backwards, redneck" states where I can still have whatever breed of dog I want, still keep snakes(including constrictors and venomous), and still keep a spider. If banning everything that might hurt someone, or scare someone, is the sign of progressive thinking, I don't want any part of it! That said, this law is based on the API law that the animal rights people have pushed into effect all over North America. It generally grants permits only to research facilities and accredited zoo/aquariums, but occasionally to sanctuaries that take in/confiscate/accept animals taken from owners, provided the sanctuary does not adopt out animals. The biggest thing you have to watch out for, if you decide to go ahead and get a T anyway, is who you allow to see it, or who you mention it to. Don't assume that just because someone is a close friend, they won't casually mention you having a tarantula to someone ELSE, who might be either a law enforcement person, or be one of those habitual tattle-tales. While it's easy to hide a tarantula, you have to be constantly on-guard against "snitches", even those who "just let it slip out" that you have an illegal animal, and next thing you know, the Animal Gestapo comes pounding on your door.

pitbulllady

 

[crpy]

Man, Ontario just about bans everything, don't they? Not to knock your home, but it really makes me glad I live in one of those "backwards, redneck" states where I can still have whatever breed of dog I want, still keep snakes(including constrictors and venomous), and still keep a spider. If banning everything that might hurt someone, or scare someone, is the sign of progressive thinking, I don't want any part of it! That said, this law is based on the API law that the animal rights people have pushed into effect all over North America. It generally grants permits only to research facilities and accredited zoo/aquariums, but occasionally to sanctuaries that take in/confiscate/accept animals taken from owners, provided the sanctuary does not adopt out animals. The biggest thing you have to watch out for, if you decide to go ahead and get a T anyway, is who you allow to see it, or who you mention it to. Don't assume that just because someone is a close friend, they won't casually mention you having a tarantula to someone ELSE, who might be either a law enforcement person, or be one of those habitual tattle-tales. While it's easy to hide a tarantula, you have to be constantly on-guard against "snitches", even those who "just let it slip out" that you have an illegal animal, and next thing you know, the Animal Gestapo comes pounding on your door.

pitbulllady

Agreed, progressive thinking is like banning your common sense.

 

[reclusa]

When T's are outlawed, only outlaws will have T's.

You could, of course, move south of the border to the land of freedom.

Amen brother!!!

 

[Travis K]

Bleep 'em. Let them try and pry an OBT from my cold, dead hands.

--the nature boy

You know the more I think about this the more I would treat my T's like me guns. Can any one say Ruby Ridge?

We(the government and all the other civilian lemmings) know what is best for you, so just do as we say, want, and will.
I feel sorry for you Canadians our lives are getting more and more strangled by red tape every day

 

[crpy]

Cause and effect= kick the cause in the ass and shunt the effect

 

[Skullptor]

Agreed, progressive thinking is like banning your common sense.

For what it's worth. From someone with duel citizenship, I can see progressive and repressive thinking on both sides.

 

[crpy]

For what it's worth. From someone with duel citizenship, I can see progressive and repressive thinking on both sides.

Yep, but sometimes its hard to distinguish the truly repressed from the willfully repressed

 

[Skullptor]

Yep, but sometimes its hard to distinguish the truly repressed from the willfully repressed

Adopt the Canadian heath care plan and you will know!

 

[crpy]

Adopt the Canadian heath care plan and you will know!

lol,good point lol

 

[Travis K]

Adopt the Canadian heath care plan and you will know!

Oh, but we keep getting told by all the socialist that Canada's health Care model is the way to go!?!

 

[crpy]

Oh, but we keep getting told by all the socialist that Canada's health Care model is the way to go!?!

Another good point

 

[Senses-Tingling]

george washington also had a garden of weed (no joke). Times have really changed.

Not to digress, but this sounds like another attempt to smear the names of people who have been held in high esteem for 200+ years - a common practice, since it is hard to refute and turns into a "he said, she said" argument. There is a reason why hear-say is not permissible in court.