Releasing of animals into the wild.

[Jace]

I know when I was given Poe, I was under strict orders not to release him-not that I would. When I get an animal, it's for the lifetime of that animal. When I received confirmation of Poe being an American Bullfrog and I started doing research on this species, I was amazed and appalled at the stories I've read about them being released with no thought into a completely unassuming ecosystem. With devastating results. I think whatever can be done to raise awareness and stop this from happening is a good thing: for all people, ecosystems and animals.

[Deku]

I know when I was given Poe, I was under strict orders not to release him-not that I would. When I get an animal, it's for the lifetime of that animal. When I received confirmation of Poe being an American Bullfrog and I started doing research on this species, I was amazed and appalled at the stories I've read about them being released with no thought into a completely unassuming ecosystem. With devastating results. I think whatever can be done to raise awareness and stop this from happening is a good thing: for all people, ecosystems and animals.

I agree. I also think companies should get creative when making terrariums/aquariums and enclosures for animals so they are "cheaper", yet durable and easy to acquire. Company still makes profit. We dont get jipped of tons of money, animal gets larger cage. Like I keep thinking "how much space that animal would have if it was free" and I feel bad. So ived b een trying to make their space more free. for my rabbit I give her constant walks, and I let her roam a room. Shes litter trained and I just thump down when she goes to a dangerous corner. People should give better care to their pets. Bullfrogs dont belong in 10gallon aquariums. And its what I saw where I used to work at, and people bought em and kept them in 10gs. The storeI used to work at now keeps 6 crayfish in the same aquarium(10gallons), all mature crayfish bare in mind. Their systems worked in sumps. Meaning "shared bacteria" was in order. they keep fire belly newts, and fire belly toads in said system with fish*think of petsmart* and they kept the chytrid fungus carrying african clawed frogs in the same system as the one with the newts and toads. Once I saw them put these frogs with larger fish. Some frogs were found dead the next morning. Like I remembered they had a list of deads. Literary over 20-30 fish died per day. Fish were over priced. I remembered they get some that are 5cents and sell em for 10bucks. on top of that they give customers wrong care so they will buy more useless bullcrap. I remembered the animals they get were all wild caught. Same applies to other stores. They say its "captive bred", but if it isnt a beardie or something easy to breed chances are its wild caught. No joke.