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  • Arkansas (legal to keep 6 or less)
  • Florida
  • Idaho
  • Illinois (with permit)
  • Massachusetts Southern Flying Squirrels Only
  • South Carolina
  • Wisconsin Section 4 of Wisconsin Statute 169.04 (dealing with restrictions on captive wildlife) states,

    "(4) EXEMPTION FOR CERTAIN WILD ANIMALS. (a) A person is

    exempt from holding a license or other approval as required under

    this chapter to possess live native wild animals if the wild animals

    are not endangered or threatened species and are any of the following:

    1. Arthropods.

    2. Chipmunks.

    3. Pocket gophers.

    4. Mice.

    5. Moles.

    6. Mollusks.

    7. Opossums.

    8. Pigeons.

    9. Porcupines.

    10. Rats.

    11. Shrews.

    12. English sparrows.

    13. Starlings.

    14. Ground squirrels.

    15. Red squirrels.

    16. Voles.

    17. Weasels."

Illegal (or stipulations apply)

  • Alabama
  • Alaska
  • Arizona - (Not Confirmed Yet)
  • California
  • Canada
  • Colorado
  • Connecticut
  • Georgia
  • Iowa
  • Kansas
  • Main
  • Massachusetts Southern Flying Squirrels OK!
  • Michigan (illegal without permit)
  • Mississippi
  • Nebraska
  • North Carolina
  • Ohio (as of now SFS and exotics, etc are legalhere..Bill HG 45 so far has not gone thru to change this..some stipulations are for the city of Dayton where they are not allowed in the city limits..you can get more info on OAAO's website.)
  • Pennsylvania (it is posted below that Pennsylvania is a legal squirrel state BUT you have to get your squirrel from a PA Game Commission licensed breeder. You can't import from another state or take from the wild. The receipt that you get with the breeders info on it is all you need as proof that you got it legally in PA.)
  • Tennessee (You must have a rehabbers license to keep any native wildlife.)
  • Texas (unless it's a flyer)
  • Washington (It is reported, but not confirmed, that Flying Squirrels are legal as long as they are from a breeder.)
  • New York (without a rehabber's license)
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