Margaret,
Wow, as a born and raised Torontonian (now living in Washington, DC), I
hope the herpers there appreciate the hard work you have done on their
behalf. I sure do appreciate it, especially if I ever move back! It is
nice to see that there is wide cross-section of people who came together
to work on this: Grant Crossman (Port Credit Pets), Dr. Murphy (I had
the pleasure of taking one of his herp courses), the Zoo (was this Bob
Johnson and Tom Mason), Ont. Herp Society, the others I am not familiar
with.
Thanks again for the hard work!
Yuri Huta
Margaret Both wrote:
>
> In Aurora reptiles, spiders and rabbits are all banned. It is an old bylaw
> and the bylaw officer, who knows about my critters, pretends that he knows
> nothing. Its a bit hard as I have taught classes int he local school, lirary
> and beaver/brownie/guide groups for years. Including his grandchildren.
> The Toronto bylaws are now fair in spite of or despite Animal Alliance and
> Zoocheck. This is thanks to the work of (alphebetic order) Domenic Clark,
> Grant Crossman, Steve Marks and the Exec of the Ont. Herp. Society,(
> Margaret and Carole Both) also honourable mention to the Toronto Zoo and Dr
> Murphy from the Royal Ontario Museum. If the animal alliance and zoocheck
> had had their way even most of the gecks would have been banned not to
> mention all snakes, most lizards, turtles, amphibians, tropical fish, birds
> arachnids, crusateans etc. The list is WAY too long. All educational
> programs would have been banned as well. They lost.
> Margaret
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