{"id":485274,"date":"2025-10-09T09:14:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/485274\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T09:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:14:16","slug":"four-species-to-be-added-to-list-of-prohibited-pets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/485274\/","title":{"rendered":"Four species to be added to list of prohibited pets"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"as boxTitle boxText\" data-desc=\"\u5206\u4eab\u5217\">\n<li>\n<p>By Sam Garcia  \/  Staff writer, with CNA <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Raccoons, saltwater crocodiles and two types of venomous snakes \u2014 vipers and elapids \u2014 would be banned from being kept as household pets, the Ministry of Agriculture said yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>The species are to be added through an amendment to the list of animals prohibited from being raised, imported or exported. <\/p>\n<p>Vipers and elapids are highly venomous, and their bites risk causing systematic toxicity and loss of limbs, the ministry said. <\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/P02-251009-006.jpg\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Yang Yuan-ting, Taipei Times<\/p>\n<p>There have been cases in which people raised raccoons, but later abandoned them after they became aggressive and hard to control, it said. <\/p>\n<p>Such abandonment results in significant administrative and management costs, it added. <\/p>\n<p>Saltwater crocodiles can grow up to 5m long, weigh up to 200kg and are highly aggressive, the ministry said, adding that households cannot provide them with everything they require. <\/p>\n<p>The four species would be added to the list to strengthen their management and prevent public safety risks arising from private ownership, the ministry said. <\/p>\n<p>However, exceptions can be made for specific cases, such as exhibitions and experiments, it said. <\/p>\n<p>The ministry said it referred to laws in Japan, Singapore and the EU to inform the proposed amendment. <\/p>\n<p>Japan prohibits household ownership of venomous and highly aggressive animals including vipers, elapids and saltwater crocodiles, while Belgium and France ban raising raccoons, it said. <\/p>\n<p>The new measures must be implemented as soon as possible to prevent public safety risks, so the public notice period has been shortened to 30 days, it said. <\/p>\n<p>With the addition of these species, a total of 647 kinds of animals would be prohibited from being raised as pets. <\/p>\n<p>For people already raising the newly added species, the ministry would require owners to register their pets and prohibit their breeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Sam Garcia \/ Staff writer, with CNA Raccoons, saltwater crocodiles and two types of venomous snakes \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,17260,16,15,1717,17259],"class_list":{"0":"post-485274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-the-taipei-times","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wildlife","13":"tag-17259"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115343450011445398","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}