Quote Originally Posted by celticguitar View Post
True but if you are only taking one or 2 I doubt that's much of an impact.
But why take them at all, when there are better and safer options?

I am not advocating it the place I go to is probably over populated as it is and there would a natural die off to keep things in check but then again you are interfering with natural selection and taking away the fit that survive.
Every population is at its maximum size, overpopulation tends to occur after some dramatic change, as when a species spreads to a new area or a year when reproduction has been exceptionally successful. Or when the size of the population is considered big enough that it becomes a nuisance to us. It's not possible to interfere with natural selection, either. It occurs regardless. It's not like a fragile ecosystem, it's more like math.

I'm trying to keep this short, so I apologise for the lack of illustrating examples.

My green frog came from there and he will probably return in the fall so he can breed next year he's just a summer observation pet for my son and I He's 5 1/2 and I am introducing him to nature up close and personal.
Dwight
Of course it's your choice and he'll probably learn a lot, but I can't see anything good coming from keeping summer observation pets, as far as the animal itself is concerned.

Don't worry, I'm just thinking out loud.