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Message: <blockquote data-quote="octanejunkie" data-source="post: 201066" data-attributes="member: 3872">I suspect some byzantine guidelines were enacted into law to prevent the inevitable introduction of invasive, nuisance species of flora and fauna; which always seems to happen despite best intentions and efforts. Like ticks.I bet if you organized a group of current and potential keepers to petition the proper authorities and associated legislative bodies you could expand the last with a single strong argument; there are no endemic species of tarantula in ME that would be threatened by hobbyists keeping foreign species. Notwithstanding the fact that tarantulas could not survive in ME outside of a keeper's care, in captivity.The ones to petition the hardest would likely be the pet shops and anyone standing to profit from a change in the current, seemingly nonsensical law.</blockquote>