Originally Posted by jellyman

You are truely on some fantasy island. If these frogs were truely thought of as non disposable then the shipments of frogs arriving dead from the wild would stop because there would be no demand. Breeders would ONLY sell to cover their costs and would only sell to those that walk to the tune of your standards. Certainly most of the folks that join a website based on this hobby personally feel differently but that accounts for such a small percentage of the actual frogs in circulation. And you got it right, frogs are no different then grass, insects, dogs, and humans. They are all exploited, self motivated hybrids, and then they die or are killed. Most every human on this planet could die tomorrow and the ones that are left would not even know the difference. Life would go on.