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[Frikitiki]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Is this a typo that should have read "snakes and rabbits"? Otherwise, I am not sure why you lumped snakes and rabies together as snakes (nor any reptile) can get rabies.

No, I meant rabies...you know, the disease that caused Old Yeller to be put down.

We are supposed to have strict agricultural rules. The reason I put the two in the same sentence is that they current to do not reside in Hawaii (at least that is known about). If you turn in an illegal animal like a snake, hissing cockroach, Madagascar gecko among a small list, you gain amnesty. But, if they catch you it can be up to $25,000 fine and a year in jail. Dogs and cats which can carry rabies used to spend 120 days in quarantine, but now if your animal was immunized 30 days before arrival, then you can take the animal right from the airport.

[Morrigoon]

Originally Posted by Frikitiki

Dogs and cats which can carry rabies used to spend 120 days in quarantine, but now if your animal was immunized 30 days before arrival, then you can take the animal right from the airport.

REALLY?!? Wow, I didn't know they'd changed that rule so drastically.

[Frikitiki]

They changed the rule 2-3 years ago, but they are really strict on the timing. if you go a day + or - outside the allowed range, quarantine it is! Lots of people, esp military didn't have the roughly $1500 to put the animal in for the 120 days. When my cousin moved to Hawaii from Las Vegas I would go up weekly to the quarantine station to check on Kuma since they were living on the Big Island and the only quarantine station was on Oahu.