Mastodawn

Someone literally had a #monkey on their back - #driver failed #drugs test and #nicked for #DUI , passenger nicked on suspicion of keeping a #primate without a #licence (which isn't even /that/ heard to get but you need to prove to the Council and DEFRA you can look after your exotic #pet

The monkey is going to be rehabilitated at a #wildlife rescue centre...

#Cumbria #Carlisle #WildlifeCrime

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4315244wpo

Monkey found in boot of car on M6 by police to be homed in Dorset

Monkey World will collect the marmoset after police stopped a car on the M6 in Carlisle.

BBC News

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE 1d ago

@vfrmedia Ah, yes, the council.

When we rewrote our council's constitution I thought I'd spotted a bug - that responsibility for licensing zoos was with the wrong portfolio or directorate or something.

"Tell you what," said the lawyer who'd written the draft, "how's about we leave the wording as is, and worry about it next time the council gets an application for a zoo licence?"

A very practical lawyer taking a perfectly reasonable risk-based approach. The council has never had an application to license a zoo. I don't recall any mention of exotic pets either.

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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK 1d ago

@TimWardCam I guess if you did ever get one, it would be simple enough to ask DEFRA and neighbouring Councils for advice (there's zoos in Suffolk and Essex, and quite a lot of unusual pets there including servals, and venomous snakes (these seem especially popular in Essex)

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

@vfrmedia Oh, there are people with snakes all over the place. I've never heard one say they needed any interaction with officialdom to own them.

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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK 1d ago

@TimWardCam there's a list of species and only venomous snakes seem to require licences - presumably the constrictor species kept as pets in UK simply don't grow to the sizes where they would cause a major hazard to humans (unlike countries like Malaysia where the Fire Brigade regularly have to relocate some absolute units of pythons from more populated areas)