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Growing up in Idaho there would sometimes be baby alligators for sale during fairs, like the area with prize livestock and the petting zoo and all that. They’d keep them in those small plastic pools and put rubber bands on their mouths. We got to play with them. I’m sure it was all very legal and safe and the alligators definitely weren’t super stressed

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19 points

Wyoming needs to take a side

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9 points

On a lot of these there is no info for Wyoming. Further proof that it doesn’t exist.

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1 point

“If they say it on television, it must be true!”

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14 points

Alaska is taking the piss! Did they actually vote a law allowing it? It would have been a funny session.

“And what about subtropical reptiles, should we allow them? Alive or dead? Though that makes no difference”

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15 points

TLDR: They just never thought they’d need to make a law against it.

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5 points

This is likely true for most (or all) green states.

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I lived in PA for 16 years, and I could have had a crocodile that entire time‽‽

sob

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6 points

Alligator*

Legal status of crocodiles and caymans is so far unspecified.

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Oh. Well, then, I don’t care. Alligators are boring.

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1 point

How dare you insult alligators like that?

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2 points

I’m here now wondering if I should capitalize on this newfound knowledge.

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Yes. I mean, did you really need to ask that question?

(Seriously, tho, I know the answer is “no” for any exotic pet. But I can enjoy the idea.)

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1 point

yeah, my living situation at the moment can’t accommodate a house cat, so anything larger is definitely not going to work.

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10 points

I swear I remember pet stores selling baby alligators when I was a kid. I tried googling the history of this, but got few results outside Leave it to Beaver ordering one through the mail in the fifties which was apparently a thing.

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