Seeing Texas and Florida on there tells me there must be very good reasons for it to be illegal.
Even as an European I understand want you're saying.
I think it’s kinda funny that a comment about understanding contains a typo
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.
Made sense until that last clause.
"But assuming the getting is legal the having is also legal with the permit."
Could use a rephrase, or at least a comma. Am I interpreting this correctly?
"If it's legal to get, it's legal to have with the permit."
What justifies ownership? Can I just pluck one out of the
wildtrash and therefor own it?"No officer, that's not my raccoon, he's his own person"
Be the change.
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....
Of course Texas and Florida are on there
Wouldn't have it any other way.
I just checked and it's illegal in Canada. That makes me happy and sad.
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.
Yeah, I see what you’re talking about. Okay, specific exemptions count!
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
I have been in possession of a raccoon in North Carolina but I wouldn't say I owned her.
Yeah, owning a raccoon is like owning a cat.
Also the raccoon had set up a nest in my carport so we trapped her and released her in some woods a lengthy pickup ride away.
This map is incorrect. I live in Pennsylvania and have wanted a pet raccoon for years, sadly it is not legal here.
Found a better map: https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/pet-raccoon-legal-states
Awww, dammit. I shamelessly stole the meme... guess I have to make my own for accuracy.
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.
Woo! North Carolina represent!
Of course Florida
How else you gonna protect the truck in your yard from the methheads if not with a pet raccoon trained to fight to death?
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!"
It's legal here in the UK.
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.
I saw somebody with a pet raccoon on a lead once. In the UK. Pretty sure they're not allowed here, but I wasn't going to grass them up.
"I saw nothing."
I know there are pet raccoons on instagram, so it's definitely a thing.
