Petsmart employees

[into]

By purchasing them, you reward their them for their bad husbandry skills/policies.

true. Though you have to consider that most of them will get bought up by children and uneducated people that see them as novelty $5 pets that are seen as disposible by many. ... like goldfish.

I've been to pet stores where a clerk was chasing frogs around to get one for a child requesting one. Recently, I overheard a kid ask his mom if he could get a frog and she told him "no, you keep killing em... maybe next time".

[Chel]

It breaks my heart that people think of frogs and toads as disposable. They are just as alive as any other pet and deserve the same amount of care as any other pet.

[into]

It breaks my heart that people think of frogs and toads as disposable. They are just as alive as any other pet and deserve the same amount of care as any other pet.

I have to admit that before owning them, I never gave much thought to frogs.

[Chel]

I have to admit that before owning them, I never gave much thought to frogs.

Even though I recently just got into frogs and toads, I stil felt bad for them at stores when they weren't being treated right.

[Kurt]

Recently, I overheard a kid ask his mom if he could get a frog and she told him "no, you keep killing em... maybe next time".

My mom used to say that I kept on killing things all the time, still does occasionaly. That maybe have been true when I first started keeping fish and herps, but it hasn't been true in a long time. I had a moray eel that lasted for ten years, when every thing I read said that the captive life expectancy was only eight months. I lost it in the mid-nineties. I always have to throw these things back at her when she makes those kind of statements.