• CarlsIII
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    Seeing Texas and Florida on there tells me there must be very good reasons for it to be illegal.

  • Yote.zip
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    237 months ago

    That means blue states are hard mode for owning a raccoon.

    • @ickplantOP
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      You make an excellent point.

  • Alien Nathan Edward
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    So in PA this is a weird one. You can have just about anything with an exotic animal permit. In order to get an exotic animal permit, you pay $50/yr, but you also need two years training with someone who has an exotic animal permit AND is specifically permitted to handle the type of animal you’re trying to handle. There are also rules around getting various animals at both the state and federal level, and a few species are exceptions because of their potential to go feral and ratfuck our entire ecosystem but assuming the getting is legal the having is also legal with the permit.

    • @ickplantOP
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      47 months ago

      This person raccoons.

    • @[email protected]
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      Made sense until that last clause.

      “But assuming the getting is legal the having is also legal with the permit.”

      Could use a rephrase, or at least a comma. Am I interpreting this correctly?

      “If it’s legal to get, it’s legal to have with the permit.”

        • @pirat
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          27 months ago

          I always do.

          I do that more than I should!

          I’m doing that too much…

    • @Jerb322
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      67 months ago

      Don’t you go putting Wisconsin in with Texas and Florida, unless all you are talking about is owning a trash panda…

      • @Makeitstop
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        Fun fact: it’s also legal to own a giraffe in Wisconsin, as long as it gets a clean bill of health from a vet.

        Additional fun fact: giraffe meat is sweet, and many big game hunters claimed it was the best tasting animal out of all the animals they’ve tried.

        • @ickplantOP
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          77 months ago

          So what you’re saying is I should move to Wisconsin, start a giraffe empire and become a giraffe steak magnate?

          • @Makeitstop
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            87 months ago

            Yes. And you should market it with a mascot named Girafferey Dahmer.

            • @ickplantOP
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              87 months ago

              I’m filing for a business license as we speak.

          • @pirat
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            27 months ago

            The steaks are high!

              • @pirat
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                27 months ago

                420 glace it, broth

                Looking at it, I don’t think this is an AI-generated image.

                But at the same time, I actually think this is an AI-generated image you just generated, with a prompt consisting of my comment and (maybe) just a few other words.

                Crazy times, man …

    • @ickplantOP
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      57 months ago

      Wouldn’t have it any other way.

  • @TheDoctorDonna
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    77 months ago

    I just checked and it’s illegal in Canada. That makes me happy and sad.

  • magnetosphere
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    What I want is a map of the states where owning a raccoon was expressly, specifically made legal. States where the law plainly says that it is legal to own a raccoon.

    Loopholes, sloppy legislation, and situations where someone can say “well, it’s not technically against the law” do not count.

    • @Earthwormjim91
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      I mean, the default for everything is being legal until made illegal.

      You’re not going to find many things explicitly made legal unless they’re exemptions to a law that would otherwise make it illegal.

      • magnetosphere
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        27 months ago

        Yeah, I see what you’re talking about. Okay, specific exemptions count!

  • @roofuskit
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    The only surprises here are regular Virginia and some states where it is illegal.

    • @ickplantOP
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      117 months ago

      I have relatives in VA, and from now on I shall refer to it as “regular Virginia” to them.

      • @roofuskit
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        37 months ago

        I bet you they appreciate the recognition.

        • @ickplantOP
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          “Thank god she knows we’re not in East Virginia.”

          • @roofuskit
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            27 months ago

            I was thinking more for being the regular one. Irregular Virginia… yeesh.

    • @Crashumbc
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      Yeah, owning a raccoon is like owning a cat.

      • Captain Aggravated
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        Also the raccoon had set up a nest in my carport so we trapped her and released her in some woods a lengthy pickup ride away.

  • @[email protected]
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    My grandpa said when he was a kid; he climbed a tree, took a baby raccoon out of its nest and raised it to be a pet. This was in Michigan, more than 70 years ago

  • DarkGamer
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    57 months ago

    Raised a couple when I was a kid, (illegally,) that were abandoned in our attic by their mother, would not recommend it. They were very cute but when they grow up it’s very common for them to suddenly and violently turn on their owners. We heard a lot of stories and eventually released them into the wild before this could happen. They are wild animals, after all.

    • @ickplantOP
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      I can’t imagine they would make good pets, but one can dream.

      • DarkGamer
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        I totally understand, they are cute as hell! Maybe one day we will domesticate raccoons.

        • @ickplantOP
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          57 months ago

          This is what we should be working on instead of conquering space.

          • DarkGamer
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            37 months ago

            We could breed space-faring raccoons and kill two birds, (it worked in Guardians of the Galaxy!) XD

            • @ickplantOP
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              47 months ago

              I fully support this initiative.

        • @agent_flounder
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          I feel like it would’ve happened some time in the last ~15,000 years if it was going to happen, but maybe humans just didn’t get around to it.

  • @[email protected]
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    57 months ago

    This map is incorrect. I live in Pennsylvania and have wanted a pet raccoon for years, sadly it is not legal here.

    • @ickplantOP
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      27 months ago

      How else you gonna protect the truck in your yard from the methheads if not with a pet raccoon trained to fight to death?