[NatureNS] Red-eared Slider as a pet

Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:38:05 -0300
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I know it had to do with them carrying salmonella and so pet stores were no longer allowed to sell them. This was years ago of course. I don't know how some people have acquired them since but know they're still out there.

I don't know what Health Canada says about them now, however.

Gayle


---- Elizabeth Doull <edoull@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: 
> I have  question, Gayle
> 
> Is it now illegal to own a red-eared slider as a pet?  If so, why are we 
> still seeing them today?  I remember having one  as a kid years ago!
> 
> thanks
> 
> liz
> ...........
> Maybe Kents at MicMac Mall might want it. In their Garden Center they have 
> an artificial pond with 3 (I believe) Red-eared Sliders residing in it. As 
> for DNR, I recall an incident not long ago where a family had their Slider 
> that had been their pet for years, confiscated by DNR. They were going to 
> destroy it and the family, I believe, had to take the whole situation to 
> court & it was only then that DNR released it to the Wildlife park.
> 
> Gayle MacLean
> Dartmouth
> 
>

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