Illinois - Dangerous Animal Act - Permit

[Adrya]

Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for SB3264

This is a new list of exotics they plan to require a permit for in order to own.

Lions, tigers and bears are on the list and seem to have been on the old Illinois list. The new list has these reptiles, amphibians and insects of which Illinois residents will know which ones were added.

(15) All members of the Boidae family, such as boas, pythons, and anacondas as provided by the Department by administrative rule.

(16) All members of the order Crocodilia, such as crocodiles, alligators, caimans, and gavials; members of the Varanidae family, such as Nile, water, and crocodile monitors as well as Komodo dragons.

(17) Medically significant poisonous amphibians capable of causing bodily harm to humans or animals, including, but not limited to, Bufo marinus, such as cane or marine toads, and Bufo alvarius, such as Colorado River toads.

(18.) Dangerously venomous arachnids and insects including, but not limited to, all scorpions of the family Buthidae; the genus Nebo; and any others that the Department, by administrative rule, designates; spiders, including, but not limited to, the genera Atrax, such as funnel-web spiders; Chiracanthium, such as sac spiders; Gorgyrella, such as African trapdoor spiders; Hadronyche, such as funnel-web spiders; Latrodectus, such as widow spiders; Loxosceles, such as recluse spiders; Macrothele, such as funnel-web spiders; Missulena, such as mouse spiders; Phoneutria, such as Brazilian wandering or huntsman spiders; Sicarius, such as six-eyed crab spiders; Steatoda, such as false black widows; centipedes, including, but not limited to, the genera Scolopendra and Strigamia; and any others that the Department, by administrative rule, designates or deems medically significant.

(19) Other animals that the Director, after consulting with the Dangerous Animal Advisory Council, designates, by administrative rule, as dangerous animals.

[HERPHAPPY]

I take it "hot" snakes are already a no-no?

[dhonaker]

Originally Posted by HERPHAPPY

I take it "hot" snakes are already a no-no?

Yes hots have always been a no no

[HERPHAPPY]

So you won't even be able to keep a (tiny!) rosy boa or Aussie spotted/Children's python??? ridiculous!

[KyleZ]

What's so frustrating... is that after so many years of non-incident nor public attention, suddenly... suddenly Boa are officially "dangerous animals..." Why?

Does anyone else smell this whole frenzy as simply a way to distract the general public from the true issues and deficiencies in our nation (or state) governments' increasing state of disarray and/or corruption? A tactic to play into the percieved "average" person's base and unfounded fears of snakes, just another in a series of nonsense to direct the general public herd away from real and more pressing issues... Well, that, and the increasing lobbying power of the so-called "animal rights" crowd influencing media and political practices with their "incentives."

I mean pet snakes, especially Boa, have been kept quietly and successfully for so many years without much, if any alarm or attention, nor percievable negative impact on this nation (minus potentially certain species of snake in HI, and the Burm issue in FL) yet, seemingly suddenly, the American public is being inundated with ignorant propaganda vilifying exotic animals, most especially the "scary, slimy snakes," as if they were ever even a perceptible threat to 48 of the 50 U.S. states (excepting possible ecosystem disruption in FL or HI).

It all makes my stomach turn, to be honest, and makes this hobby and the attitude of the powers at be toward the public's individual liberites and priveleges virtually unrecognizable to me compared to when I first began keeping snakes 18 years ago.

Oh well. End rant.

[dhonaker]

Lucky I know the guy that hands out the permets

[dhonaker]

Im actuley glad that even ball pythons are being considered in all the bans that way the ball python keepers will stop stabing every other keeper in the back and maybe learn that we all need to stick together to beat all this crap

[HERPHAPPY]

Originally Posted by dhonaker

Im actuley glad that even ball pythons are being considered in all the bans that way the ball python keepers will stop stabing every other keeper in the back and maybe learn that we all need to stick together to beat all this crap

Yeah, in that sense....but it's really goofy though!

[dhonaker]

Originally Posted by HERPHAPPY

Yeah, in that sense....but it's really goofy though!

It's goofy that ball keepers are always first in line to throw giant and boa keepers under the bus not realizing that once were gone there are far less people to fight for them to keep there pets
That is how we will loose this battle divide and were done ball and boa keepers turn on the giant keepers then the ball keepers turn on the boa keepers. Then they have no one to light for them

[HERPHAPPY]

Oh I agree, we are better off collectively, I just mean the idea of a BP posing any harm is goofy!

[EricRoscoe]

Illinois to ban all pythons and boas under Dangerous Animal Act of 2012

(15) All members of the Boidae family, such as boas, pythons, and anacondas as provided by the Department by administrative rule.

Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for SB3264

House Assignments Committee:

Senator Heather A. Steans (D) (Sponsor)
District Office:
5533 North Broadway
Chicago, IL 60640
(773) 769-1717
(773) 769-6901 FAX

Senator Don Harmon (D)
District Office:
6933 W. North Avenue
Oak Park, IL 60302
(70 848-2002
(70 848-2022 FAX

Senator James F. Clayborne, Jr. (D)
District Office:
Kenneth Hall Regional Office Building
10 Collinsville Avenue, Suite 201-A
East St. Louis, IL 62201
(61 875-1212
(61 274-3010 FAX

Senator Kimberly A. Lightford (D)
District Office:
10001 West Roosevelt Road
Suite 202
Westchester, IL 60154
(70 343-7444
(70 343-7400 FAX

Senator Kirk W. Dillard (R)
District Office:
One South Cass Avenue
Suite 201
Westmont, IL 60559
(630) 969-0990
(630) 969-1007 FAX

Senator Dale A. Righter (R)
District Office:
88 Broadway Avenue
Suite 1
Mattoon, IL 61938
(217) 235-6033
(217) 235-6052 FAX