Quote Originally Posted by Stefan-A View Post
In all fairness, nature doesn't provide optimal conditions, animals just adapt to the existing ones. All we learn from the natural conditions, is that they won't kill garters faster than the garters can reproduce. In fact, under natural conditions, garters are killed as fast as they can reproduce.
To use a more radical example of people knowing better: We don't brumate our animals under conditions that kill half of them each year.
I was in no way suggesting that we subject our captives to extremes like cold, famine, droughts, floods , predators or diseases.

However, things like stuck sheds, scale rot, etc.. would be a lot less of an issue if more people would keep husbandry within the parameters of an "ideal day" in the wild, rather than forcing animals to live under conditions that we find pleasing to us.

hope that makes sense.