Oudsbergen Flemish minister for animal Welfare Ben Weyts (N-VA) presented this morning in the Wildlife of Opglabbeek in the ‘positive list’ with 422 reptile species that Flemish people are allowed to keep as a pet. “Sometimes animals on the basis of a hype in-house, while they don’t belong there.”
Until today, it was a theory admitted to each of 11,500 different reptile species in the house, but that proved to be no longer responsible for the animals and/or environment. “We had last year, for example, five crocodiles out of the garage to go pick up and was also a highly toxic Texan rattlesnake with a drug addict,” said Sil Janssen of the Wildlife. “And then there is the well-known story of the Taiwanese wurgslang, who escaped from a pet store and voortplantte in Hasselt.” Following In the footsteps of the mammals (which is already since 2001 a positive list), so now the reptiles such list.
