Exotic pet laws in Wyoming

Chapter 69, § 8(a)

An importation/possession permit shall not be issued for importation or possession of the live cold-blooded wildlife in this section... (a) Injurious wildlife listed in 50 CFR § 16.

Ambystoma mexicanum is inside the same federal genus listing, so Wyoming will not issue a permit. Section 8 is absolute: it does not offer a permit route, it forecloses one.

How this rule works: Section 10(a)(i) is the sentence that matters for reptile keepers: amphibians and reptiles not listed in Section 8 or 9 need no permit at all.

Checked against the published text on 5 August 2026.

§ 8(a)

An importation/possession permit shall not be issued for importation or possession of the live cold-blooded wildlife in this section... (a) Injurious wildlife listed in 50 CFR § 16.

Adopted from the federal injurious list, which has covered Python bivittatus since 2012. The reticulated python and the green anaconda arrive by the same route.

How this rule works: Section 10(a)(i) is the sentence that matters for reptile keepers: amphibians and reptiles not listed in Section 8 or 9 need no permit at all.

Checked against the published text on 4 August 2026.

§ 11(b)(iii)

a permit shall not be issued for importation or possession of the following live warm-blooded wildlife in Wyoming... (iii) Monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus);

Not merely unpermitted. The regulation says a permit shall not be issued, which closes the route entirely.

How this rule works: Two closed lists do the work. Domestic animals and domesticated animals are both defined by enumeration, with the phrase for the purpose of this regulation, only the following animals are considered domestic. Anything on neither list is wildlife, and Section 13(d) leaves it to a permit that may be authorised upon approval.

Checked against the published text on 4 August 2026.

Chapter 69, § 8(a)

An importation/possession permit shall not be issued for importation or possession of the live cold-blooded wildlife in this section... (a) Injurious wildlife listed in 50 CFR § 16.

Wyoming adopts the federal injurious wildlife list wholesale, and 50 CFR 16.14 covers every species in the genus Ambystoma. That makes the tiger salamander one of the few animals Wyoming will not permit at all, and the ban follows from a federal disease rule about Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans rather than from anything Wyoming decided about salamanders.

How this rule works: Section 10(a)(i) is the sentence that matters for reptile keepers: amphibians and reptiles not listed in Section 8 or 9 need no permit at all.

Checked against the published text on 5 August 2026.

§ 11(b)(v), § 13(d)

(v) All members of the order Rodentia from Africa;

The rodent ban is geographic and reaches Africa only, so a South American rodent falls through to the discretionary permit at Section 13(d).

How this rule works: Two closed lists do the work. Domestic animals and domesticated animals are both defined by enumeration, with the phrase for the purpose of this regulation, only the following animals are considered domestic. Anything on neither list is wildlife, and Section 13(d) leaves it to a permit that may be authorised upon approval.

Checked against the published text on 4 August 2026.

§ 13(d)

A permit may be authorized upon approval for other warm-blooded wildlife unless otherwise specified in this regulation.

The domesticated list clears the chinchilla, the guinea pig, the gerbil, the hamster, the mouse and the rat, but not the degu.

How this rule works: Two closed lists do the work. Domestic animals and domesticated animals are both defined by enumeration, with the phrase for the purpose of this regulation, only the following animals are considered domestic. Anything on neither list is wildlife, and Section 13(d) leaves it to a permit that may be authorised upon approval.

Checked against the published text on 4 August 2026.

§ 13(d)

A permit may be authorized upon approval for other warm-blooded wildlife unless otherwise specified in this regulation.

Wyoming's prohibited list names the gray wolf, the red wolf and wolf hybrids but no fox.

How this rule works: Two closed lists do the work. Domestic animals and domesticated animals are both defined by enumeration, with the phrase for the purpose of this regulation, only the following animals are considered domestic. Anything on neither list is wildlife, and Section 13(d) leaves it to a permit that may be authorised upon approval.

Checked against the published text on 4 August 2026.

Ch. 10 § 3; § 13(d)

Except as otherwise specified or exempted in this regulation, a permit from the Department is required prior to importation, possession, confinement or transportation of any living warm-blooded wildlife.

Wyoming is a closed-list state on the warm-blooded side and the southern flying squirrel is on none of the lists. It is not among the eighteen animals defined as Domestic at Ch. 10 § 2(i) or the twenty-four defined as Domesticated at § 2(j); it is not prohibited under § 11, whose only rodent entry is the order Rodentia from Africa; it is not a furbearer or a game bird under § 13; and § 16, the no-permit section, covers domestic and domesticated animals plus three classes of bird and no other mammal. So § 3 applies and § 13(d) is the route: "A permit may be authorized upon approval for other warm-blooded wildlife unless otherwise specified in this regulation." Recorded permit rather than banned because that clause is a grant of discretion rather than a bar, unlike Alaska, whose rule forbids issuing a pet permit at all. Wyoming's own flying squirrel is the northern, Glaucomys sabrinus; § 15 lets a Wyoming-caught nongame mammal be possessed without a permit while still requiring one to import the same animal.

How this rule works: Two closed lists do the work. Domestic animals and domesticated animals are both defined by enumeration, with the phrase for the purpose of this regulation, only the following animals are considered domestic. Anything on neither list is wildlife, and Section 13(d) leaves it to a permit that may be authorised upon approval.

Checked against the published text on 5 September 2026.

§ 13(d)

A permit may be authorized upon approval for other warm-blooded wildlife unless otherwise specified in this regulation.

Native to Wyoming. Section 14 allows possession without a permit of mammals declared pests if they were captured in the state, but importation of those same animals is barred.

How this rule works: Two closed lists do the work. Domestic animals and domesticated animals are both defined by enumeration, with the phrase for the purpose of this regulation, only the following animals are considered domestic. Anything on neither list is wildlife, and Section 13(d) leaves it to a permit that may be authorised upon approval.

Checked against the published text on 4 August 2026.

§ 13(d)

A permit may be authorized upon approval for other warm-blooded wildlife unless otherwise specified in this regulation.

Not on the prohibited list at Section 11 and not on either the domestic or the domesticated list, so it lands in the discretionary permit category. May be authorised is not the same as shall be issued.

How this rule works: Two closed lists do the work. Domestic animals and domesticated animals are both defined by enumeration, with the phrase for the purpose of this regulation, only the following animals are considered domestic. Anything on neither list is wildlife, and Section 13(d) leaves it to a permit that may be authorised upon approval.

Checked against the published text on 4 August 2026.