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Anyone in the San Diego area?
Please go to the Chula Vista city council meeting tomorrow, even if you're not from Chula Vista, to add your voice to this meeting and STOP them from banning all monitors, pythons, and boas.
The way that this bill is worded, in that it is banning "the sale, possession for sale, importation or breeding of a wild animal", and then goes on to paint an extremely broad description of what constitutes a wild animal. While initially it is only trying to ban monitors, boas, and pythons, the language in the bill can also be extended to include tortoises (in particular, sulcattas and other large species - if they'll ban birds over 15 lbs, why not tortoises?).
PLEASE add your voice to this and stop this from taking place!
http://capwiz.com/pijac/issues/alert/?alertid=61038021&queueid=[capwiz:queue_id]
Share this with your friends, do anything you can. Thanks for any and all help you can give!
*edit* As it stands, it can be applied to ban tortoises as well.
The actual ordinance reads " No person shall possess or maintain within the jurisdiction of the ordinance codified any animal which is not normally domesticated in the United States, including, but not limited to..." upon which it lists a large number of various types of animals.
-Jen
Please go to the Chula Vista city council meeting tomorrow, even if you're not from Chula Vista, to add your voice to this meeting and STOP them from banning all monitors, pythons, and boas.
The way that this bill is worded, in that it is banning "the sale, possession for sale, importation or breeding of a wild animal", and then goes on to paint an extremely broad description of what constitutes a wild animal. While initially it is only trying to ban monitors, boas, and pythons, the language in the bill can also be extended to include tortoises (in particular, sulcattas and other large species - if they'll ban birds over 15 lbs, why not tortoises?).
PLEASE add your voice to this and stop this from taking place!
http://capwiz.com/pijac/issues/alert/?alertid=61038021&queueid=[capwiz:queue_id]
Share this with your friends, do anything you can. Thanks for any and all help you can give!
*edit* As it stands, it can be applied to ban tortoises as well.
The actual ordinance reads " No person shall possess or maintain within the jurisdiction of the ordinance codified any animal which is not normally domesticated in the United States, including, but not limited to..." upon which it lists a large number of various types of animals.
-Jen