There is a war. It's not fought with guns and ammunition. It has never made the primetime news or the headlines. Some have never even heard of it. But it exists.
The controversy over whether non-traditional animals should be kept in captivity is an extraordinarily hot topic. It is so hot that one is expected to sit with one extreme or the other and if she doesn't side with either, she will be sure to get run over.
There is no happy medium between the two extremes except the "no-man's-land" where many animals end up and an occasional undeserving person. The tug of war between exotic animal owners and animal rights activists has taken its toll on the industry of wildlife and exotic animals and many lives have been lost; in many different ways and severities.
Every day it seems the essential rights of animal owners are violated within the realm of both state and federal licensing systems. Eventual cruelty is bestowed upon children with dreams of owning animals that look and sound different than animals they befriended and loved while growing up. Now the child inside the creator can laugh with a hyena, count the rosettes on a jaguar, and howl with the wolves as if the creator is part of the pack. These are animals that have their own magic. Children grow up and are taught so long as they work very hard and bestow the Golden Rule upon everyone they meet, nothing can go wrong.
But it does.
It does so in an increasing frequency throughout every year that passes. Before creators realize it, their hard-earned assets and even the very existence of their businesses can be gone in a blink of an eye. The end product of hatred and intolerance is a massacre of legitimate businesses offering a different kind of education and a different kind of magic. By this point, the creators who, by adulthood, see the fruits of their labor over many years experience its tragic loss in a fraction of the time it took to acquire it.
Government agencies, such as the Department of Environmental Conservation, have staff who seem to work overtime in philosophizing how their self-love is indicative of their greatness - a value and belief existing solely within their own minds. Covert plans resulting in the destruction of fragile creations not so easily attained occur daily throughout this nation. It wouldn't be surprising if a disproportionate amount of the events resulting in such loss occurs in New York State as it is plagued with the most laws, rules, regulations and, unfortunately, attorneys. Claustrophobic mandates arbitrarily (and sometimes secretly) forced upon those who do not conform personally to the staff ensure the loss of freedom and ignorance of public needs and quality of life by all facets of the government. It's hard to believe the duty-driven generation of our grandparents was far more free and happy then we are here now, in New York State. Hence, the perpetual exodus from the empire.
Now think of it all being taken away so abruptly and secretly, by the complainers. Imagine watching the bulldozing of the dreams which served as the foundation for ambition and inspiration of the creators to give charity to the community around them. These are the same feelings that led the creators to demonstrate to others happiness can only intensify when one understands that just because something is uncommon, doesn't mean it's bad. Creators teach others that it's okay to laugh with a hyena, count the jaguar's rosettes and howl with the wolves until they are silenced by greed, hatred, and ignorance by the same people who swore dedication to behave in the opposite fashion. The creators are being destroyed by the complainers.
This is a blog open for discussion regarding the legal status of domesticated exotic animals in captivity and protecting the rights and liberties of the public, especially exotic animal owners. It encourages all to reach into the child inside and remember what it was like to think of the most passionate dream they've ever had and how it felt to finally attain it on their own merits.
Please come aboard and read the vast array of opinions and experiences concerning the views of those who have taken up the movement to improve New York State's treatment of exotic animal owners and wildlife rehabilitators. This blog will explain licensing systems as they are understood by the blogger and the faults, loopholes, and abuse of such systems by the authorities who have been instrumental in converting our communities into authoritarian entities. It is clearly their own belief, logic, and comfort which is important enough to be imposed upon others and held far above the needs and diverse lifestyles of the public. The public is good enough to pay for government agencies but not good enough to be included in the benefits they shower on only a few.
This must change.
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