Welcome to kingsnake.com's Reptile Law Support Center. This center is staffed by employees
and volunteers of kingsnake.com and is designed to help pet owners, businesses, clubs, rescues,
and other people interested in laws that impact reptiles as pets or in the wild, stay abreast
of current legal efforts. Not all reptile laws are bad. Not all reptile laws are good. We want
to give you the information to decide for yourself, and the tools to take positive action and
help to determine the fate of these regulatory efforts.
Reptile Law Alerts
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Please Note: We are not attorneys, and we are not offering
legal advice. Our role is simply to facilitate the flow of information and create a web
of communication between pet owners, businesses and organizations, make sure they are
informed of pending regulations and the methods of response, and make sure that they
have a voice in decisions that impact reptiles and amphibians.
Reptile and amphibian expos, symposiums, zoo and museum exhibitions and other educational events are great
places to ask questions, get answers and network with other herp keepers. Upcoming Reptile and Amphibian Events:
Looking for a reptile or amphibian related business? A reptile store, breeder, importer,
maunfacturer or supplier? Our business directory lists some of the most popluar herp businesses in the world.
kingsnake.com's Connect is a beta project being developed to let the herp community stay in touch with
their friends and fellow hobbyists, keep each other up to date on legislative issues as they develop, and to build and strengthen
the herp community network. Registered users of kingsnake.com can use it to share photos, links, information, alerts, updates and more. log infind connections
Check out these reptile and amphibian submitted by staff, volunteers, and users of the kingsnake.com community.
Our system supports videos hosted on YouTube. If you have a favorite YouTube video, please submit it here.
Our gallery allows registered users to upload their favorite reptile and
amphibian photos to the topic galleries and personal photos to the member galleries. Photos can be used on our forums, classifieds,
and Connect, or shared with friends and family.
Online since 1997, kingsnake.com's classifieds are among the oldest
and largest pet classifieds on the web and reach thousands of reptile and amphibian owners
worldwide every day.
Enter a keyword to search kingsnake.com's classifieds.
Launched in 1997, the kingsnake.com message board system is one of the
oldest and largest systems on the internet. Here you may share and discuss information with others
about your favorite reptile and amphibian related topics such as care and feeding, caging requirements,
permits and licenses, and more.
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This glossary of reptile and amphibian terminology was written and compiled by long time kingsnake.com member Gerald Germany (oldherper). Thanks to Paul Hollander, Jeff Barringer, Bill Love, and Jeff Nichols (shadindigo) for their review, corrections, additions and comments.
Some of them are legends known to every school kid in the world. Others are
revered mostly by their peers and the scientists and herpers who came after
them. They're the world's most renowned and influential herpetologists,
herpetoculturists and zoologists, and you can learn more about them and
their legacy to the hobby in kingsnake.com's Wikipedia-based index of herper
biographies.
Keeping reptiles and amphibians is often subject to a variety of laws, regulations, and restrictions.
These resources are here to help you navigate the sometimes complex issues of herp ownership.
