Giant african land snails...

[retixxrock]

Been seeing these for sale in a few local pet shops and was wondering if these are legal to keep as pets here in Canada?Found them kind of interesting so I Did a bit of net surfing on the species and most of the sites mention them as being totally illegal to keep in most, or all American states.

[Stockwell]

Yup they are cool, but unfortunately prohibited here too by Agriculture Canada.
They're on the no-no list with tropical roaches, mantids, and stick bugs

[Matt_K]

As far as i know, they're illegal in all of North America.. You might want to mention that to these pet shops.. There's another thread about them somewhere on here, i'll edit this post in a minute with the link for you..

-Matt

*Edit*

Here's the link..

http://www.ssnakess.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=43161&highlight=Giant+snails

[SaIiLdVaEnR]

Mantids are not on that list.

Aidan

[retixxrock]

How do these pet shops get their hands on these ?.Wouldn't they be first ones to be warned that they are not legal for public sale?