I see exactly what your saying and still feel that the permit whould not stop anyone from being able to keep any animal but that the goverment is looking for a way to keep track of animals so that their not "let free". Though if a system like the CITES system was put in place along with the permits it would also keep animals out of the hands of those who don't qualify to keep them. For you who don't know how the paper trail that is CITES works I'll explane a bit.

A importer ships out the animals lets say for fun a bunch of Boas. They arrive with all the proper paper work and go though Customs. The buyer picks them up, paper work has already been provided that he has bought these animals from the seller to the proper office (In the states I think the Department of wildlife, fish and game). So when the buyer goes to sell his boas he has to provide paperwork on every sold animal to that office as well as whomever buys from him needs to provide paperwork that they've bought the animal. If appon an inspection they do not have the number of animals that the paperwork says, thier looking at Heavy fines to jail time. In addtion to this any one who breeds these animals is required to keep a breeding record of all offspring regardless if the animal needs to be registered with CITES or not.

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$45 for a micro-chip! We need to raise our prices, we do it for $20 because we want people to get them, Kind of like our spay/neuter prices, we do them at cost because we want people to get it done.

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ha! its come down. It used to be $75!

Remember, i'm on the pricey Balto-DC corridor

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I think what it comes down to something should be done at the source of the problem. What most breeders are interested in (or should be ) is producing enough captive bred animals that the demand for imported wild-caught diminishes. Countries that permit the collecting and exporting of wild-caught animals should put higher restrictions on the amount allowed. Also putting heavy fines on poaching as they already do for larger mammals.

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