Import help?
Can anyone help me sort this out.
The past few months I have been spending some spare time on learning shipping laws and procedures.
I have a question....
I guess mainly for Saskatchewan Residents?
On the H.I.S.S. website it has some laws outlined for the keeping of reptiles within the province and importing into the province.
It states:
Before moving to Saskatchewan with your pets, you must apply for and receive, prior to arriving (2 weeks in advance to be safe) an import permit for all captive wildlife. By definition, captive wildlife includes everything besides common domestic pets (cats and dogs) and livestock.
Every reptile, is considered captive wildlife, and requires import permits.
But in some time in October while looking up these laws I found on a government website for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency Animal Products & Animal Health and Production Division(not to get political or anything LOL) different information.
So I contacted a woman by the name of Christine Quinlan who is the Client Relations Officer - Import/Export, Animal Health and Production Division for Canada and she told me that to import I do not need any papers. She stated that I would only need paper work done up for turtles/tortoises, and that is internationally shipped including from the U.S..
SO I sent her another email today reaferming this situation and for the paperwork reguarding Tortoises.
What do you think?
For example Mary (sorry to bring you into this) Are you doing up paper work for your move to bring your reptiles?
Katt and Vanan - when you moved here did you do up all this paper work?
What about all the people who go to reptile shows out of province do you get paper work before you go in the event you bring something back home or do you wait until you purchae something and then do up the paper work? From what this Woman emailed me back she says there is no paperwork required - so ?
I`m just really confused now because In a past post I remember Ryan posting the fact that you can be charged 5000$ for a reptile being illegally brought into province.
anyways, any thought?
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