Florida pet owners are having their FREEDOMS taken away day by day. Please help us keep our pets! Can you imagine having to get rid of your dog or cat in the risk of them being confiscated and euthanized by an FWC officer?
FWC laws on captive reptiles are making it virtually impossible to keep florida businesses alive and they continue to infringe our rights. Law abiding Florida residents are being suffocated with unreasonable rule changes, unrealistic new caging regulations and flat out bans of certain species of reptiles. Invasive reptiles in Florida have been villainized for harming the everglades ecosystem and FWC's solution is to get rid of the reptile pet community yet little is done about the expanding housing/urban developments, agricultural effluents and the most destructive invasive animals like cats and hogs.
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Message: The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has progressively been over-governing Florida Reptile pet owners in the last couple years.
Reptile Keepers and Breeders in Florida are having FREEDOMS taken away day by day. Please help us keep our pets! Can you imagine having to get rid of your dog or cat in the risk of them being confiscated and euthanized by an FWC officer? That is what Florida reptile keepers are going through NOW.
FWC laws on captive reptiles are making it virtually impossible to keep florida businesses alive and they continue to infringe our rights. Law abiding Florida residents are being suffocated with unreasonable rule changes, unrealistic new caging regulations and flat out bans of certain species of reptiles. Invasive reptiles in Florida have been villainized for harming the everglades ecosystem and FWC's solution is to get rid of the reptile pet community yet little is done about the expanding housing/urban developments, agricultural effluents and the most destructive invasive animals like cats and hogs.
The reptile industry in Florida is worth over 250 million dollars and federally is well over a billion dollars.
We will lose MILLIONS and MILLIONS out of our tax fund here in Florida along with tons of small businesses and jobs.
This truly could be one of the biggest cover ups against the pet industry in history! This is everything Gov. DeSantis fights against and it's happening right now behind his back.
Fortune Business Insights: "The U.S. pet market is projected to grow to $325.74 billion by 2028"
APPA National Pet Owners: Even as of 2018 our industry in Florida produced the following: - $1.4 billion in vet services - $212 million in pet food manufacturing - $397 million in pet services - $133 million in pet sales
