Keeping exotic wildlife in Pennsylvania requires an Exotic Wildlife Possession Permit from the PA Game Commission. Allentown separately prohibits keeping wild or exotic animals within the city. The county sets no exotic-pet rule; check your municipality.
Pennsylvania regulates exotic wildlife (bears, big cats, wolves, venomous reptiles, and similar 'exotic wildlife') through the Game and Wildlife Code, which requires an Exotic Wildlife Possession Permit issued by the Pennsylvania Game Commission before anyone may keep such animals. On top of that, Allentown's animal control ordinance bans keeping wild or exotic animals within the city and authorizes officials to remove and rehome or humanely dispose of any such animal kept unlawfully. Because counties do not zone, Lehigh County itself imposes no exotic-pet ordinance; requirements come from the state permit system and your specific municipality.
Possessing exotic wildlife without a Game Commission permit is a summary or misdemeanor offense with fines and seizure; Allentown code violations add municipal fines and removal of the animal.
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