I think your average person will say, "I'll just get another frog". And that is something your going to have to deal with, but that IS the nature of people. My wife is also in vet school, and what you say is very accurate, but it is because of that attitude. A reptile does not display emotions like a dog, and even though you got a dog for free on the side of the road (example), its life "somehow" has more value than a snakes, or (I know this was touched upon in another thread) since we all like kingsnakes here their lives are more important than a lizards, or a mouses...but really that is BS that us humans put value on.

I breed thousands of rodents, but I spend hundreds of dollars on THIS rat at the vet, to someone else he was worth less than $5.

His name was Big Pappa and he sired me thousands of baby rats. He was my favorite rat. Long live the line of Big Papa, I still have his great grandkids.









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"Relax, Don't Worry, Have a Homebrew!" Charlie Papazian

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