My wife handles the licensing of all animals that come in to the state. This is not the action of 1 person. She fields calls every day about an exotic animal that got loose or was abandoned. This really sucks for responsible owners but there are a ton of people out there who can't keep their 6 foot alligator in the bathtub anymore and just let them loose. Its crazy. I think the bill needs thought out better and allow responsible people to go through the proper channels to get licensed to have these animals. There has to be some control put in place though. The flip side to this is what they are really worried about and that is disease's. The Dept of Ag is constantly running in to roadblocks, trying to track animal diseases back to the source because of all the back end trading and auctions. The paper trail goes cold real fast when dealing with this.