Seeing Texas and Florida on there tells me there must be very good reasons for it to be illegal.
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I mean, you’re not wrong. In Florida, it’s illegal to have sex with porcupines, so you know they don’t have the best decision makers.
Only porcupines?
Specifically porcupines... to my knowledge, no other state had to make that distinction.
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That means blue states are hard mode for owning a raccoon.
You make an excellent point.
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.
This person raccoons.
Nah, I just Pennsylvania. So yeah, by necessity I raccoon a little bit from time to time.
Understandable.
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What justifies ownership? Can I just pluck one out of the ~~wild~~ trash and therefor own it?
"No officer, that's not my raccoon, he's his own person"
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Of course Texas and Florida are on there
Wouldn't have it any other way.
These are the sides for Civil War II
Don't you go putting Wisconsin in with Texas and Florida, unless all you are talking about is owning a trash panda....
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.
So what you're saying is I should move to Wisconsin, start a giraffe empire and become a giraffe steak magnate?
Yes. And you should market it with a mascot named Girafferey Dahmer.
I'm filing for a business license as we speak.
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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
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.
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.
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The only surprises here are regular Virginia and some states where it is illegal.
I have relatives in VA, and from now on I shall refer to it as "regular Virginia" to them.
I bet you they appreciate the recognition.
This map is incorrect. I live in Pennsylvania and have wanted a pet raccoon for years, sadly it is not legal here.
Awww, dammit. I shamelessly stole the meme... guess I have to make my own for accuracy.
I just checked and it's illegal in Canada. That makes me happy and sad.
So what if someone got a racoon in a legal state and then later tried to move to CA? Do they have to disown their trash panda?
"You don't understand, he's family!"
Woo! North Carolina represent!
It's legal here in the UK.
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.
I can’t imagine they would make good pets, but one can dream.
I totally understand, they are cute as hell! Maybe one day we will domesticate raccoons.
This is what we should be working on instead of conquering space.
We could breed space-faring raccoons and kill two birds, (it worked in Guardians of the Galaxy!) XD
I fully support this initiative.
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Hold on, I'm pretty sure you can legally own one in MS as well, am I wrong on this?
According to this map, no, but it also shows that the meme is not 100% accurate.
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