Legal Exotic Pets in Michigan
Virginia allows you to keep primates as pets. Other animals that do not require permits include llamas, alpacas, camels and chinchillas. Animals used for educational and exhibition purposes require a license. Prohibited animals include bears, wolves, coyotes, hyenas, lions, tigers, leopards, alligators and crocodiles. You can apply for a permit to keep these prohibited animals. Connecticut`s bans are also extensive and ridiculous. It is difficult to obtain an exemption as a licensed issuer or an educational institution. Almost all interesting exotic animals are prohibited, including hybrids such as a greyhound or a savannah cat. While the text may be ambiguous, the Connecticut state code states that people without a poaching license cannot possess more than one of the following (meaning you can legally own one): a partridge (optional pear), otter, beaver, or raccoon.
Patagonian maras are large rodents that look like deer. Dangerous regulated animals, including lions, tigers, leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and mountain lions or their hybrids: possession and breeding of NSAs with the exception of AZA and ZAA facilities, wildlife sanctuaries, the Ministry and holders of scientific, educational or exhibition permits, approved medical or research facilities and circuses, USDA rodeos, fairs and carnivals. USDA facilities from 2006 without crime in the last 10 years to hold inventory that can be sold to other facilities and out of state. Grandfather owners on 10/1/06, who microchipped them and registered them with the local animal control. Grandfather owners and USDA, AZA, ZAA, medical or research facilities, and wildlife sanctuaries must meet requirements for cage keeping, $250,000 liability insurance, retention of health and property records, signing, annual veterinary visit, recovery plan, and escape notification. Anyone other than the owner who cares for or cares for a designated handler must apply to become a registered designated handler, which requires 200 hours of experience. Savannah cats are legal to own, as are bobcats and you can hunt bobcats. You are allowed to keep the following native wild animals as pets as long as you have an animal hobby permit: Bobcat hunting will become illegal from 1.1.2020. Hybrid cats of all generations are legal to own. Washington does not have a pet license.
Can I legally buy a raccoon and import it into Tennessee? With a permit, you can possess or import any non-domestic or hybrid mammal of these of the following orders: Carnivora, exotic felidae, canids, ursids (bears), Mustelidae and Hyaenidae, as well as various ungulates. Only a few birds and species living in the aquarium are legal exotic animals in this unique state, with peacocks (also called peacocks and peacocks) being considered poultry. The list of mammals that can be legally imported into the islands includes guinea pigs, chinchillas, rabbits, mice and rats. Hamsters, snakes, ferrets or gerbils are not allowed. Wyoming prohibits big game animals (antelope, sheep, deer, moose, moose), trophy game (black bears and grizzly bears and mountain lions) and exotic species (anything not wild or domesticated) as pets. You do not need a permit to keep domestic ferrets, alpacas, camels, chinchillas, llamas, and wolves (if captured in the state). Many exotic animals are allowed in Kentucky without a permit, including: Some species of pets can be kept without a permit, although the number of pets kept may be limited, including: Dangerous non-native wildlife was banned in West Virginia in 2015 unless previously owned. Dangerous non-native wildlife includes bears, elephants, gray wolves, big cats, rhinos, many primates and more. They are allowed to keep ferrets and lemurs as pets. The following “large carnivores” cannot be kept as pets: It is forbidden to possess all subspecies or hybrids of the following large exotic cats: tigers, lions, leopards, snow leopards, clouded leopards, jaguars, cheetahs, mountain lions or mountain lions. A person who legally owned one or more of these exotic cats on August 15, 2006 and who can prove that he or she is the rightful owner has the right to keep his or her exotic cats under certain conditions. The following facilities are exempt from this requirement: zoos accredited or certified by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association; research institutes within the meaning of the Animal Welfare Act; licensed circuses operating temporarily in the State; and Louisiana colleges or universities that own a large exotic cat of the species traditionally kept by that college or university as the school`s mascot.
Any person transporting a registered animal across the state is exempt if, under certain conditions, the transit time does not exceed 24 hours. Savannah cats are legal, but it seems that owning other small cats like servals is not legal in Louisiana. Bobbcats can be hunted. Hybrids are not listed as illegal in the statutes, but they are illegal in the city of Denver and other cities in Colorado. Bobcat hunting appears to be legal in Colorado. Colorado`s laws regarding exotic animals are very confusing and difficult to understand. New York prohibits breeding, buying or selling feral cats that are not hybrids, that are at least four generations old and registered by the CFA or TICA for pets. All previous owners had to register their cats and apply for a licence by June 30, 2005.
The license fee is $170 for 2 years. Excludes AZA zoos, USDA exhibitors, research institutes, licensed veterinarians, registered human societies, animal shelters, SPCAs, colleges and universities, wildlife rehabilitators, those transporting an animal to a liberated location, wildlife sanctuaries, and those transiting in less than 10 days. Lions require a Dangerous Wildlife Permit, issued solely for science, education or exhibition. Native species such as bobcats and cougars cannot be kept as pets. Bobbcats can be imported for other purposes without a permit, but require a fur farming permit to own or breed them. Pumas are considered an endangered species and require an endangered species permit. In 2012, New York State passed legislation requiring the Department to establish lists of prohibited non-native species, species subject to approval, and legal species. It also banned the release of exotic animals. On 8.11.2014, a new law was adopted prohibiting traders or exhibitors from allowing direct contact with big cats, tigers, leopards, with the exception of clouded leopards, jaguars, pumers or hybrids without a permanent physical barrier.
New York is the first state to ban genital electrocution of furbearing animals (2008). It is legal to hunt bobcat. Vermont maintains an unrestricted list of animals that can be kept as pets without a license, including: We`ve told you about exotic pets you can and can`t own in Michigan, but here are some more manageable pets you can actually keep in your home that are pretty unique. Some exotic animals must not be pets, including almost all marsupials, insectivores, primates, including, but not limited to: Class I animals (including Panthera cats) cannot be kept for personal use – must be commercial exhibitors. Class I approval requires 1 year and 1000 hours of experience, details of experience and location gained, and 2 references. Documented educational experience in zoology or other relevant biological sciences at the college, technical or higher level may replace up to six months or 500 hours of experience required. The Class I candidate must demonstrate an additional 500 hours or 6 months documented if they meet the Life Sciences qualifications. Class I issuers must provide a security deposit of $10,000.00 or purchase liability insurance of $2 million. Class I animal licences require that Class I animal facilities be built on a parcel of at least 5 hectares.
Under a Class II and III licence, animals the size of a mountain lion can be kept as pets. Class II approvals require 1,000 hours of experience or 100 hours of experience and successful completion of a test. Class II and III wild animals may only be owned in residential buildings if the apartment in which they are housed is equipped with its own entrance, exit and courtyard. Class II permits for mountain lions require that facilities for mountain lions be built on land of at least 2 hectares. Applicants for category III animals must be at least 16 years old and complete a questionnaire developed by the Commission to assess their knowledge of breeding, nutritional and general behavioural characteristics. All permits must comply with structural cage requirements. There are more than 1500 tigers in Florida, but fewer than 100 of them are in accredited facilities. If you`re a resident, enter your zip code in any field on this page to see what legislation is pending in your state, and make a difference now! Florida issues more than 4,000 exotic property permits each year and must employ 27 inspectors at a cost to taxpayers of $1.5 million a year so people can keep, breed and sell exotic animals. Permits cost between the 5th and 250th if you have more than ten pets. This does not generate enough revenue to cover administrative costs. What can a Florida county do to ban the possession of exotic animals when the FWCC claims that it has the highest authority and has no intention of banning this inhumane practice? Click here to see what the Attorney General has to say.
Memo of the law. Ohio`s laws have changed since the Zanesville animal slaughter in 2011. More than 50 wild animals have been released from a reserve where authorities have had to euthanize lions, tigers, bears and wolves roaming the streets.