An Eastern Milksnake I found a few years ago.

[infernalis]

Originally Posted by youngster

Does anyone know what the reasoning behind this is? I've always wondered.

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.

[youngster]

Oh I think I knew that. That sucks, wasn't there a poster here a little while back who was mass collecting rattlers?

[infernalis]

Originally Posted by youngster

Oh I think I knew that. That sucks, wasn't there a poster here a little while back who was mass collecting rattlers?

In Texas it's legal to slaughter as many rattlers as you want.

In the far midwest it's legal to gather them as well.

[youngster]

Really?! Wow, the roundups are one thing but that just sucks.

[RegenerationRep]

Yeah thats why. You can have 1 of anything non endangered, 20 snappers and 20 bullfrogs. But you can't buy them legally here. But idk about having one imported to PA from somewhere else.

[snake man12]

The red babies look exactly like corn snake babies

[infernalis]

I believe that they have been hybridized and are called cream corns??

[RegenerationRep]

A lot of snakes have been hybridized. It wouldn't surprise me. Jungle corns are kings x corns.

[snake man12]

Oh thats pretty cool I will look into that