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Petition update, 31 March 2009

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Captive care keepers in the United Kingdom believe that they have the right to maintain exotic animal species within their collections. Many oppose the keeping of animals, many more oppose the keeping of exotic species, be these, mammal, primate, avian, reptile, aquatic or invertebrate.

With increased legislation under the new animal welfare act such as codes of practice, enforcement, education, regulation, communication and awareness there should be no genuine reasons for the government to encourage the opposition to continue their campaigns to cease this.

Responsible ownership and husbandry, promotion of both keepers and animals rights also feature very heavily upon the minds of those that do keep animals privately. All keepers therefore call for support from the government rather than condemnation.

Current signatories

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• robert elliott
• David Best
• Emma Patchett
• R Callaghan
• Malcolm T Moutrey
• Patrick Dryden
• Colin Jones
• Sarah Foskett
• joanne penfold
• Ian Clayton
• d cotton
• jason edwards
• vikki smallman
• Niamh Cochrane
• Christine Goddard
• Peter Goddard
• Jon Kent
• sj degg
• Sarah Beales
• anthony morgan
• Cathy Jones
• Cheyenne Sutherland
• Daniel Ballard
• Lyndon steele
• Lorna Barnett
• Simon Warren
• godwin palmier
• Sarah Causey
• Jacqueline Burns
• Alec Scott
• michelle scott
• sarah green
• richard symons
• kristen parslow
• rebecca deegan
• Neil Bennie
• David Rodgers
• Mark Jameson
• rebecca every
• mark chapman
• Neil Trickett
• Lisa Saxby
• E Goodwin
• Adam Smallman
• R Eastman
• Janet wilsdon
• Victoria Coppard
• michael george
• Donna Gray
• Guy Mayhew
• christopher strother
• Scott Mayhew
• Charlotte
• Vicky Dibble
• Sam Edmond
• Mary Elms
• Brendan Richman
• Richard Evans
• chloe radford-gardner
• Rebecca Martin
• Alex Wallis
• c mcdaid
• julie readman
• Ben Farndon
• Colin Tillyer
• Karen Parfitt
• Liam Kirk
• Matthew Bagley
• Stuart Dobson
• Andy K Wilson
• Jade Sutherland
• charmain miller
• mark lloyd
• Tony Preuss
• marco ferrigno
• Steven Walker
• R.Beveridge
• Melanie Rhianna Lewis
• Carol Stokes
• Peter Watson
• Edmund Hughes
• James Cowan
• David Sadler
• Jonathan Gurnham
• Alan Crookes
• Michel Pilcher
• Phil Varley
• paul coyle
• Dan Marchese
• steven short
• eleanor Douglas
• Robert White
• Jack Dallard
• Xavier Bellerson
• Stuart Common
• G.M Van Staden
• J Harris
• Chris Giel
• stephen rowland
• Shaun Davis
• Mike Halewood
• Robert Ashmore
• Shane Hodgkins
• Kate Stubbs
• patrick hutley
• Stephen J Brockman
• mark jacobs
• Dean Thorpe
• Stuart Douglas
• Richard Nickerson
• Natasha Henshaw
• sarah shaw
• Diana Neilson
• Cameron Strike
• Stephen Haworth
• KEITH CREAGMILE
• A. Stanfield
• kyle evans
• Joseph hill
• James Burch
• alison lloyd
• Rory Broadhurst
• Markus Wilder
• Ruth Merrick
• Anne Foord
• Nancy Priston
• Carol James
• Gary Perks
• Terri Hall
• simon t burke
• Jackie Plage
• Graeme Quantrill
• sara
• leila hamilton
• trevor spencer
• Kate Ison
• Chris Drew
• Andrew Myers
• kevin smith
• Robert Wallace
• Reece Lelean
• Liam O'Hara
• Robert Bancroft
• Robert Lewis
• paul owens
• MARK MARCHANT
• Emma Louise Pattinson
• james mosley
• James
• STEPHEN HOSKINS
• Jonathan Smith
• Ronald Tinmurth
• Andrea Parry-Jones
• Gareth Grifin
• Lee Jones
• Andrea Slaymaker
• Kevin
• Rhiannon Wells
• Vikki Clark
• Adam Doona
• E.Tarr
• Andrew Stallard
• rachel white
• A Kitching
• Ian Lamont
• Fiona Lamont
• Mathew Worrell
• Jennifer Broadley
• Peter Atkinson
• Andrew Nightingale
• Guy Price
• Alex Dallimore
• Rachel Hewart
• A Wright
• Rosanna Reid
• kelly brooker
• Simn Dobson
• Helen Callaghan
• W Turner
• Warren Turner
• Sarah Rule
• amy loveys
• Simon Newberry
• John Berry
• Aimee Perrin
• Michael Lovett
• miss ewart
• Daniel Sharp
• Samantha Horton
• Jacqueline Burns
• alan gibson
• Carol Hill
• ALAN DRAKE
• Alexander Haynes
• nathan taylor
• matthew lusty
• Matt Lodge
• Peter Foulsham
• Kieron Molloy
• meina lee
• kelly brown
• Sarah Harman
• Daryll Elston
• Carly B
• Sheena Ferguson
• Deni
• KEVIN HASLEY
• Tony Baker
• Sallie Rainbow
• Anton Rojas
• Cassie Histed
• nicole white
• linda tatler
• jonathan gavin
• Jennifer A. Shepherd
• Nathian Brook
• ROB KITCHINMAN
• adam shore
• chris gard
• Rachel Gallimore
• Paul Joseph Fa
• Adam Gardner
• michelle rhodes
• john knowles
• Marcus Fuller
• Ian Shaw
• Emily Brush
• Elaine Fletcher
• Rachel Harriett
• Sian Simons
• andrew bennett
• james bricknell
• Alexandra Jones
• Michaela Oliver
• think that anyone should be able to keep an exotic pet if they want one and would look after it
• Sharon Fox
• Emma
• jonathan gurnham
• Aaron Neale
• Helen Peake
• Mark Charlesworth
• Tim James King
• Peter C. Bumstead
• Carl Senior
• Curtis Robinson
• Phil Whiting
• David Bruce
• Lee Holdaway
• Kath Dipple
• Neil Murtagh
• Terry Greer
• keeley fleckney
• Kieren Dipple
• Daniel Fryer
• John Kerr
• F Wilson
• James Jenkins
• P. Stuchfield
• Lynn King
• chris cotter
• Stephen Lovell
• alexander mais
• David Hind
• Craig Richards
• Lee hackland
• Carol Truswell
• Frances Hannah
• tracey born
• ian born
• Ellen Turner
• hannah cahill
• Ryan Westgarth
• snakewispera
• Peter Preston
• leighton allen
• Elizabeth Clark
• John phillipson
• Gabriele Tenti
• maria papangelopoulou
• hannah chapman
• Archduke JWM von Habsburg-Lothringen
• christopher stephan ross
• Gary symes
• Tracey wotton
• Oli Dodds
• Steve Zlotowitz
• Robert Hudson
• Graham Slade
• Ryan Cuningham
• J.Gahagan
• rose smart
• Peter Quinlan
• Amy Kelly
• Arthur Cooke
• graeme bannister
• Anthony Bowyer
• Mick Breach
• David Hodgson
• M.Rawbone
• Luke Hand
• james jones
• Leonie Macdonald
• jaime winder
• ben partridge
• Emma Daly
• Claire Lindsay Appleton
• Lesley Shallcross
• Alison Sutton
• Oliver Wilding
• k robinson
• nicholas burgess
• Debbie Hall
• James Hall
• Sacha Hildich
• James Gilman
• Becky Rose
• Derek Leske
• Mike
• Matthew Bergin
• Lorna Johnson
• Sean A. Rhodes
• Richard Keirnan
• Chris Walsh
• Paul Biggerstaff
• Mark Ferris
• kathleen mccamley
• Alan Rumsam
• Jo Heslop
• daniel simpson
• neil wagstaff
• donna davis
• Karen Bainbridge
• ROD EVANS
• Nicholas J Lamb
• Aidan Wilshaw
• Stephen Goff
• richard errington
• Helen Aldred-Jones
• Eliot Bailey
• Ben simpkin
• fraser spratt
• andrew bowles
• Kim Morris
• Daniel Mitton
• Chris Giel
• geraint evans
• juliann gillingwater
• Laura Bradley
• Barnaby Murphy
• Rebecca Norris
• ria acton
• James Box
• Nikki katt
• brian michaels (liverpool reptile rescue)
• Matthew
• John Ford
• Joseph Valentine
• Janine Southam
• andy smith
• Iain MacRae
• Mandy Rollinson
• Sara White
• neil johnston
• Raymond Bett
• Steven Aldred-Jones
• Alice Mearns
• Sarah Fawcett
• Chrisbrett
• matt swingland
• Dr Rhys Ponton
• Paul Lane
• Paul A. Jenks
• Stacey Smith
• Rob Merritt
• Leigh Sheldon
• Ian Crowe
• Bryan Graham
• John simon
• karen carter
• Sian Morgan
• samantha clayton
• Sam Edgar
• Hannah Baker
• Georgie Holme
• tony Hackett
• Mike Cookson-Taylor
• Mike East
• kirsten marper
• sarah mealing
• s a
• Graham Allen
• jane smith
• Claire Smith
• trevor pearman
• Greg Talt
• Jacquita Allender
• Daniel Cherbanich
• Melissa Hart
• Yan Horton
• Joel Robinson
• Michael Lovett
• Stephen Heather
• David Moore
• Victoria Nicholson
• Nick Ward
• Niall Mellers
• Adam Sprules
• dianne ward
• e carson
• Nathan
• Anthony Watson
• Josie Masters
• Heather Carol
• stuart morgan
• kieran barratt
• James Fenton
• Alex Baldwin
• Rosemary Cooper
• samantha hampson
• david hampson
• leah knight
• Ryan O'C
• donna stapley
• steve hopewell
• Rachel Cossins
• Bonnie Jackson
• Karen Brenan
• victoria pocock
• Gary Parker
• Paul Scott
• sean mcgurk
• Brian Robinson
• Kirsten Marper
• Thomas Briscombe
• Daniel Patten
• rob galloway
• darren mcgovern
• Matthew Bullard
• Jobey Fletcher
• Vaughan Wood
• joost van Dijck
• James King
• Peter Smith
• Carol Lindsay
• Scott Hunter
• Oli wilding
• Andrea McCulloch
• Daniel Thorpe
• Clive H Howell
• Carl Groombridge
• mark newell
• Sarah-Louise Wilson
• Nicola Madeley
• Richard Madeley
• Tom Deakin
• Nicholas Tilley
• Pippa
• Andrew
• Gemma Madeley
• Aimee Partis
• Luke Moffat
• aimee rutherford
• Chris Vaughan
• Carol Munro
• colin bradbury
• Sophie Prentice
• Rosie Ray
• Jim Carlton
• Sally Conyers
• Grace Derbyshire
• erik paterson
• Cazzie
• Nicholas Browett
• kevin Collyer
• su hampton
• christopher bell
• Glen Hurst
• Claire Brass
• Sami Barnett-Jones
• Richard Mason
• andrew webb
• jennifer mackenzie
• ANGELA KEARNEY
• gordon graham
• Joanna Phillips
• Leeann Brodie
• K Stevenson
• Gareth Niblock
• Ian Fayx
• Jim Reid
• Scottish Exotic Reptiles Forum
• Sam Johnstone
• Ashley Sykes
• Elizabeth Kirby
• Ian Whitlock
• kerry craig
• Debbie Standen
• Tom Edlin
• jamie woods
• Jane Woods

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