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Back? OK. As I said in my last post, it's a bang-head-on-desk-for-morons kind of day. I now have images in my head of tornados (which are oh-so-common in Central Florida) totally decimating Florida homes, lifting venemous snakes out of their cages, out of the houses, to sail through the air completely unharmed, only to land on the people who just happen to be standing around outside during this freak weather occurance.
Oh, wait, he doesn't mean they will go immediately from cage to biting innocent bystanders. He means they will be safely removed from their glass cages, which are inside the houses the tornado has to demolish in order to reach the cages, fly through the air and somehow survive the impact to slither off into the grass and bite someone when the tornado is over and people return to the daylight. Or bite some pet, because gators and dogs don't cause any difficulty for pet owners in Florida at all.
Sorry, that makes so much more sense!
I'm all for placing restrictions on who is allowed to care for exotic pets (and that's really more for the pet's sake than the people). But we have those restrictions. And they're pretty strict. It's not like your average 10-year-old can take mommy and daddy to the pet store and pick out a cute Bengal Tiger. But what, for fuck's sake, does a criminal background check have to do with someone's ability to care for exotic animals that the rigorous testing, 1000 hours of class and random and surprise inspections can't cover? This isn't like a repeat violent offender wanting to own a gun while he's on parole or a convicted child-molester applying for a teaching position at an elementary school.
So someone thinks it'd be cool to own a venemous snake. I can't fathom why someone would want a venemous snake as a pet (although I do like constrictors), but if that person has the training necessary to adequately care for the animal and protect his neighbors according to the exotic animal preservation societies and governmental licensing restrictions ... how is this any worse than someone owning a vicious guard dog?
Come to think of it, vicious guard dog owners have a whole bunch fewer hoops to jump through and we have a whole lot more of those running around, biting people, and being starved to death by disreputable owners.
zen_shooter's latest LJ post.Back? OK. As I said in my last post, it's a bang-head-on-desk-for-morons kind of day. I now have images in my head of tornados (which are oh-so-common in Central Florida) totally decimating Florida homes, lifting venemous snakes out of their cages, out of the houses, to sail through the air completely unharmed, only to land on the people who just happen to be standing around outside during this freak weather occurance.
Oh, wait, he doesn't mean they will go immediately from cage to biting innocent bystanders. He means they will be safely removed from their glass cages, which are inside the houses the tornado has to demolish in order to reach the cages, fly through the air and somehow survive the impact to slither off into the grass and bite someone when the tornado is over and people return to the daylight. Or bite some pet, because gators and dogs don't cause any difficulty for pet owners in Florida at all.
Sorry, that makes so much more sense!
I'm all for placing restrictions on who is allowed to care for exotic pets (and that's really more for the pet's sake than the people). But we have those restrictions. And they're pretty strict. It's not like your average 10-year-old can take mommy and daddy to the pet store and pick out a cute Bengal Tiger. But what, for fuck's sake, does a criminal background check have to do with someone's ability to care for exotic animals that the rigorous testing, 1000 hours of class and random and surprise inspections can't cover? This isn't like a repeat violent offender wanting to own a gun while he's on parole or a convicted child-molester applying for a teaching position at an elementary school.
So someone thinks it'd be cool to own a venemous snake. I can't fathom why someone would want a venemous snake as a pet (although I do like constrictors), but if that person has the training necessary to adequately care for the animal and protect his neighbors according to the exotic animal preservation societies and governmental licensing restrictions ... how is this any worse than someone owning a vicious guard dog?
Come to think of it, vicious guard dog owners have a whole bunch fewer hoops to jump through and we have a whole lot more of those running around, biting people, and being starved to death by disreputable owners.
