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  gogogo at 07:26 PM JST - 26th September

  I've seen birds in department pet stores that are illegal to export from Australia, when I asked the pet store where they got the bird they said they bought it from a guy living near the store. I told them it is illegal to export this bird and sell it overseas the store didn't care what-so-ever as long as they made there 400,000 yen (the sale price).

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  norinrad21 at 08:35 PM JST - 26th September

  hahaha at the above

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  Notginger at 09:16 PM JST - 26th September

  Is it illegal to sell a snapping turtle if you're keeping a poisonous snake without permission? Or illegal to keep a poisonous snake without permission while selling a snapping turtle?

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  mrhog123 at 09:38 PM JST - 26th September

  If I lived in that apartment house I would be very carful where I steped, especially at night.

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  as_the_crow_flies at 09:52 PM JST - 26th September

  Is it illegal to sell a snapping turtle if you're keeping a poisonous snake without permission? Or illegal to keep a poisonous snake without permission while selling a snapping turtle?

  Only if the turtle is actually caught snapping at the moment of sale. Otherwise you're clear on both counts. A bit like adultery when you think about it...

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  Betting at 11:49 PM JST - 26th September

  It just displays a lax view of the way people look at things here. Just recently three Japanese men in Australia for taking protected animals. These animals are big money spinners so people will do whatever it takes.

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  thepro at 11:54 PM JST - 26th September

  You people who see rare animals in pet stores should really report them. Japanese, and their taste for rare animals, reminds me of the Philip K. Dick novel 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep'

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  OgieDoggie at 02:28 AM JST - 27th September

  The only thing missing in Japan from Philip K. Dick's novel are the mood machines, otherwise there's enough people walking around like Androids (not to be mixed up with those walking around like Zombies).

  thepro makes a good point but we must include the U.S. in this to. Both countries are going to pay a big price when what wasn't orginally in your ecosystem is introduced (by people releaseing pets from other countries into the local forest...or brown paper bag under bench at railway station).

  More posions bugs and snakes will establish themselves. You won't have to go to another country on Safari to find some very dangerous creature because he'll now be living in your backyard. This alone you would think would make people stop improting this stuff...but Oh no whatever it takes to make a Yen (or dollar) and the Government on top of that won't try and stop it they just turn a blind eye.

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  bamboohat at 12:00 PM JST - 27th September

  I saw a really big turtle that somebody had chucked in a local river recently. Thing was barely alive. I guess they novelty of it wore of, so they just tossed it. Maybe they convinced themselves it could swim away and be free (in a dirty river that doesn't go anywhere) Kind of like some folks and their kids these days.

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  kawaiitenshi at 12:09 PM JST - 27th September

  what a shame bamboohat, that was a potential ash tray!

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  kavikahi at 05:07 PM JST - 27th September

  So killing the snakes makes everyone happy now?

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  norinrad21 at 07:19 PM JST - 27th September

  well would you rather have them in your backyard?

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  kavikahi at 03:30 PM JST - 28th September

  Certainly, if my backyard could support them.

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  kawabunga at 07:05 AM JST - 29th September

  Frozen popsicle anyone??

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  dennis0bauer at 03:18 PM JST - 29th September

  i expect some expesive snake shoes/bags in the shop soon

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