Don't even waste your time Rick. Frank doesn't practice what he preaches and he feeds off of negativity. So your arguments only go to fuel the vacuous narcissistic black hole that is Frank Retes. He simply isn't worth the time or energy, unless of course you find it entertaining to yell at a brick wall, because that's all that it's going to amount to at this point.



The bottom line is, do what makes you happy and what appears to make your animals happy. We have to come to the realization that we cannot duplicate nature, we can only hope (if it is our goal) to mimic just a small fractional percent of it. After all, at the end of the day, we have to come to terms that these are pets, captive bred and kept pets. People keep pets for their own enjoyment, not for the sake of the animal's enjoyment, but for our own. If it were all about the animal, then nobody would or should have any pets at all, simple as that. To delude oneself would be to think that by keeping any animal captive as a pet is to do it solely for the animals sake.



Frank keeps captive animals. And just like the rest of us, he's doing it for his own pleasure and reasons. Where Frank fails is that he keeps deluding himself by proclaiming that it's all about the animals when his reasons and methods are not all that different than anybody else's. Don't get too caught up in this delusion of grandeur, it's a fool's errand.



Take care and enjoy your animals as best you can!
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Troy Rexroth

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