By now you've made your decision and it is indeed a difficult one to make. I release, after raising many Copes from tads found in my water troughs each year. I place them on trees often filled with the tiniest insects. I know frogs are targets for birds, raccoons, snakes and other predators, but that is the complex beauty of nature. Sometimes, I carry them with me to different wooded areas when I go camping and release them not far from ponds. It's fun to think it strengthens the gene pool. Kinda like "Johnny Appleseed." And many are released in my own wooded back lot. I see them and hear them every spring - their numbers are growing.