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Animals You Can’t Have as Pets in Illinois [LIST]
There goes my dreams of owning a liger and a monkey.
Illinois has a pretty strict policy and ban on private ownership of exotic animals. This includes non-domesticated felines, wolves, bears, reptiles and non-human primates.
Illinois Law according to BornFreeUSA.org reads:
Summary of Law: No person may harbor, care for, act as a custodian, or maintain in his possession any "dangerous animals" or primate except at a properly maintained zoological park, federally licensed exhibit, circus, scientific institution, research laboratory, veterinary hospital or animal refuge... Persons who had lawful possession of a primate before Jan. 1, 2011, from continuing to possess that primate if the person registers the animal by providing written notification to the local animal control administrator on or before April 1, 2011. There are no state requirements for a person possessing other exotic species not defined as "dangerous animals."
So what are these "dangerous animals?" Here's a handy list:
- Pieter-Pieter, ThinkStock
Pieter-Pieter, ThinkStock 1Lion
- Willbrasil21, ThinkStock
Willbrasil21, ThinkStock 2Tiger
- Purestock, ThinkStock
Purestock, ThinkStock 3Leopard
- Sherman, Getty Images
Sherman, Getty Images 4Ocelot
- Three Lions, Getty Images
Three Lions, Getty Images 5Jaguar
- Cameron Spencer, Getty Images
Cameron Spencer, Getty Images 6Cheetah
- Jacobsen, Getty Images
Jacobsen, Getty Images 7Margay
- Ablestock.com, ThinkStock
Ablestock.com, ThinkStock 8Mountain Lion
- Morozova Tatiana, ThinkStock
Morozova Tatiana, ThinkStock 9Lynx
- rruntsch, ThinkStock
rruntsch, ThinkStock 10Bobcat
- Getty Images/iStockphoto
Getty Images/iStockphoto 11Jaguarundi
- Lynn_Bystrom, ThinkStock
Lynn_Bystrom, ThinkStock 12Bear
- EcoPic, ThinkStock
EcoPic, ThinkStock 13Hyena
- Ingram Publishing, ThinkStock
Ingram Publishing, ThinkStock 14Wolf
- Ezra Shaw, Getty Images
Ezra Shaw, Getty Images 15Coyote
- Rob Stothard, Getty Images
Rob Stothard, Getty Images 16Poisonous Life-Threatening Animal