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Strolling the yard
Yes. My friend, Adam Wysocki who runs NO HR 669 is putting up a new site for our next steps, and I'll be sure to provide that link once he has that up. In the meantime, you can check out this site he recently launched:Okay, so this still has to go up in Congress, right?
The National Pet Association:
The National Pet Association - NatPET
This site will "officially" launch in January 2010, so there are areas of the site that still need content.
Adam has been spending every single day in the halls of Washington meeting with Senators and Representative. He's authoring a new bill right now that may actually help in the future. A "rating" system that is required for all reptiles in pet stores and when purchasing online. Similar to movie ratings, this will rate an animal like a burm or retic so that someone new to reptiles with no experience with any reptile will see that it's a "Z" rating for instance - not for an inexperienced keeper, can be invasive in certain locals, etc.
Lots of exciting things, and Adam is advocating for the pet owner, not the reptile breeder, although the reptile breeder will benefit from his efforts, but his strategy brings it to a level that the lawmaker's understand and the implications that they had not thought of before.
If this bill becomes a law, for example, a pet owner who owns a single boa, and let's say that they are a contractor, and are offered a job out of state - they will not be able to accept that job and take their pet boa with them, without commiting a violation of the Lacey Act - a felony.
If they have a loved one who lives out of state who needs their long term care - they can't bring their pet with them - they have a choice to destroy that animal, find a rescue (there aren't that many) and some may choose to set it loose rather than euthanize it and hope that it survives.