California questions

[Hellow]

The reason why they banned gerbiles and all desert animals is because, as they are herbivores, if they got loose they could breed and damage crops.

[IRescue452]

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A domestic female gerbil gets out in one part of the expansive CA, a domestic male in another. They somehow manage to escape predators, poison, disease, and numerous other hazards. (All of this within their short lifespans and also they find each other to mate, since different species of rodents cannot produce live offspring) The babies all survive and find prospective mates through some odd scenario. Eventually they take over the whole state of California. Kinda like how every mouse from every litter survives and we have hundreds of millions ruining our crops, but only this time its pet rodents that manage to escape the house and survive to tell about it.


How likely is that scenario? And with the pesticides already used for mice and rats? Who honestly thought up that one? Gerbils eat seeds and dry vegetation anyway, a domestic gerbil wouldn't live long pilching crops.

[Giselle]

Yes, she's definitely half wolf half GSD. They got her from a breeder, albeit not one in California.

Laws are laws and most are implemented for good reasons. I can understand why the quaker is banned here, and I'm fine with it. Now that I realize the destruction that invasive and foreign flora/fauna have concocted on native California soil, these bans make fair sense to me. To each their own

[CathyBogart]

Wolf hybrids are advertised for sale in the newspaper every day. I had no idea they were illegal here. Obviously, it's not enforced much.

There are some restrictions on aquarium fish, though the only one I know for sure is that you can't have freshwater stingrays.

How about this scenario: Someone has been breeding gerbils for awhile, but is having trouble finding homes for the offspring. They're not very smart, so they dump, say, 20 gerbils in a field somewhere. Even if less than half survive, they could sure start breeding.

[xVelvet_FuzzButtx]

whats worse are ferrets being illegal. ofcourse i'm biased , but nearly all domestic ferrets are neutered(at est. 4weeks old!), and don't survive very long when they escape. I know CA is one of the most populated with ferrets- people find strays all the time. I just do not understand why Arnold won't let them free!
OT: I totally need to buy this cat toy.