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Originally Posted by youngster
Does anyone know what the reasoning behind this is? I've always wondered.
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In a nutshell......
A few years ago (1960's into the 1980's) people would mass gather baby turtles for the pet trade, it was not uncommon for people to bring hundreds of hatchlings at a time into pet stores.
Frogs were being gathered by the thousands for frog legs, snapping turtles for soup & garter/ribbon/green snakes were being mass gathered as cheap disposable $5 pets.
States made blanket laws to protect herps from this madness.
However, the likelyhood that the police are going to kick in your door over a garter snake or a milk snake is zero.. unless you have an angry forest ranger who wants you to fry, no one really cares about one or two specimins living in a cage, as long as you are not in posession of federally endangered species, you should be just fine.
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