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News Clippings
Proposed Canadian Laws May Kill Our Hobby in
Canada...
The NEW Toronto City council has been discussing newly
reformed proposed by-laws regarding the care of animals
in the city of Toronto. The Toronto Board of Health is
drafting the by-law, along with the help of Liz White,
Director, Animal Alliance of Canada, and Holy Penfound,
Director, Zoocheck Canada Inc. (Known animal rights
activists).
These new by-laws will be voted on as early as
mid-December, and may come into effect on April 1st,
1998. They have apparently been in discussion since June
or so of '98 but since very few societies concerned with
the keeping of many of the prohibited or restricted
animals were consulted with most people did not find out
about these proposed by-laws until mid-October. :(
We have very little time to make a difference! There
is a public meeting with the board of health from 9:30 am
until midnight on Dec. 1st, 1998. The meeting will be
held in Council Chambers, 2nd flr., Metro Hall, 55 John
St. (up from the Skydome). You must
register if you would like to speak before the board,
please call 392-7039 to register.
These by-laws affect people who own cats, dogs (no
straying, muzzling, microchiping and spaying,
registration and liscences too!), rabbits, ferrets ....
Here is a sample list of the prohibited animals (some are
ridiculous! and many are already covered by federal
laws!), However if you would like to view the full list
of prohibited animals and the regulations and liscensing
fees etc please go to:
http://www.geocities.com/Petsburgh/8401/ Toronto
by-laws that may make
keeping your pet ILLEGAL!
PROHIBITED ANIMALS
MAMMALS
coyotes, wolves, foxes, hybrid wolf dogs, except dogs;
beluga whales, orca,
whales, dolphins; bats Such as fruit bats, myotis, flying
foxes; such us
anteater, sloths, armadillos; tigers, leopards, cougars,
except cats; hyaenas;
hedgehogs and shrews; such as rabbits, hares, pikas,
except domesticated
European rabbits and crosses thereof; Marsupials (such as
kangaroos, opossums,
wallabies, sugar gliders); mink, skunks, weasels, otters,
badgers, except a
ferret; seals, sea lions, walruses; chimpanzees,
gorillas, monkeys, lemurs;
elephants; raccoons, coatimundi, cacomistles; chinchilla,
porcupines, flying
squirrels, prairie dogs, woodchucks, pocket gophers, and
kangaroo rats; except
domesticated Norway rat, Black rat, House mouse, gerbils,
hamsters and guinea
pigs; manatees, dugongs; cattle, goats, sheep,
pot-bellied pigs; horses,
donkeys, jackasses, mules;
BIRDS
ducks, geese, swan; scremers; swifts,
tree-swifts, hummingbirds;
whip-poor-will, nighthawks, oilbird; gulls, terns,
oystercatchers, Ibisbill,
stone-curlews, plovers, sandpipers, snipe, puffins,
guillernots; herons,
storks, shoebill, Ibises, spoonbills; Mousebirds;
pigeons, doves,
sandgrouse, except domesticated species such as the Rock
Dove and Ringed
Turtle Dove; kingfishers, bee-eaters, rollers, hornbills;
Turacos and
cuckoos, Including roadrunners, Coueals, anis; diurnal
raptors such as
vultures, condors, hawks, falcons, ospreys, eagles;
pheasants, grouse,
guineafouls, and turkeys; loons or divers; cranes,
tumpeters, rails, crakes,
coots, moorhens; swallows, martins, wrens, mockingbirds,
chickadees,
nuthatchers, cardinals, orioles, meadowlarks, finches,
sparrows, starlings,
crows, jays, ravens) Except species derived from
self-sustaining captive
populations such as canaries, mynahs, and finches;
pelicans, gannets.
cormorants, anhingas, frigatebirds;
flamingos; toucans, woodpeckers;
grebes;
albatrosses, petrels, shearwaters; parrots, lorries,
cockatoos, lovebirds,
parakeets. macaws, except domesticated species derived
from self-sustaining
captive populations such as cockatiels and budgerigars;
penguins; owls;
flightless rattites such as ostriches, rheas,
cassowaries, emus, kiwis; other
rattites known as tinamous such as crested tinamou;
trogons, Including the
quetzals
REPTILES
alligators, crocodiles, Gavials; tuatarus; Squamata
(such as lizards, snakes)
which are larger than 1 metre and of the families:
Anomalephididae (blind
snakes); Atractaspididae (mole vipers); Boidae (such as
boa, python,
anaconda) which may grow larger than 2 metres; Colubridae
(such as mangrove
snakes, Island racers, glossy snakes); Crdylidae (such as
Spiny tail
lizards); Dibamidae (such as blind Skinks, Mexican Blind
Lizard); Elapidea.
(such as Peron's Seasnake, Desert Death Adder, Bardick
Snake); Gekkonidae
(only the Tokay gecko); Gymnophthalmidae (such as
Arhrossaura, Bachia,
Mlcroteiid, Tegu, Neusticurus); Helodermidae (Gila
Monsters); Iguanidae (only
Iguana iguana); Teiidae (such as Teiids, ameiva,
whiptail, Iightbulb
lizards); Viperidae (such as Cantil, Puff adder, Green
Bush Viper, Prairie
Rattlesnake); Testudines (turtles and tortoises)
AMPHIBIANS
Anura of the families Ascaphidae (tailed Frogs)
Dendrobatidae (such as Skunk frog, Blue Poison Frog)
Leiopelmatidae (such as Coromandel New Zealand Frog)
Rhinodermatidae (such as Darwin's Frog, Mexican Burrowing
Toad)
Sooglossidae (such as Tomasset's Frog, Seychelles Frog)
Caudata of the family Cryptobranchidae (such as
hellbenders, Chinese Giant
Salamander)
INVERTEBRATES
Arachnids (such as scorpions, tarantulas)
OTHER
All venomous reptiles, amphibians and Invertebrates
Animals not indigenous to Canada that have been taken
from the wild at any
stage of development including eggs or embryos
All species of fauna which have been classified as
endangered or threatened
with extinction by any one of the Committee on the Status
of Endangered
Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC), Appendix I of the
Convention on International
Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) or the International
Union for the
Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
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