People do that kind of thing all the time. Parakeets, ball pythons, anoles, rats, bunnies, dogs, cats. I hear about it (too) frequently. People think they messed up and shouldn't have the animal in captivity, so they are making things right by letting it go into the wild. *That* part comes down to educating people how to care for their pets, but they need to have some incentive to learn how to care for it as well.
I don't know how many questions I have fielded like "Why did my (insert pet) die?" Usually it's because they thought the rat would live entirely off of pepperoni pizza or that the snake would just have to learn how to eat cooked chicken. People are morons.
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3.4 ball pythons
1.1 kingsnakes
0.1 crazy cat
?!.?! ASFs
1.0 husband

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