Libertarianism on the March!
A major victory — it is now legal to own a pet squirrel in Pennsylvania!
Senior Judge Joseph Hudock, in an 11-page opinion, had fun recounting Nutkin’s early years (“Then one day tragedy struck: Nutkin fell from her tree nest!”) and relocation from South Carolina to Pennsylvania in 1994 (“Dark clouds began to gather.”)Nutkin’s owner Barbara Gosselin was charged in 2002 with violating the ban on keeping wild animals after a game officer came across Nutkin while investigating a case of deer poaching. “The Game Officer acknowledged that the squirrel was too old and too tame to be released in the wild,” wrote Hudock, comparing the furry rodent’s condition to “an old appellate judge, like the undersigned, attempting to return to the boiling cauldron of the trial court after being tamed by years of peace and quiet above the fray.”
Gosselin’s conviction was overturned and the judges ordered that her $100 fine and costs be returned.
Can ferrets in New York City be far behind?
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