I Approve of Most of H.R. 669

[wolfy-hound]

Releasing your pets is inhumane. Why would you let them starve, or die of RI, or be mauled to death by a cat or dog, rather than euthanizing them humanely yourself?
That sort of thinking is just why people dump a dog in the desert rather than take them to a shelter. If the pet dies horribly and slowly and in pain.. well they don't see it happening, so they will be happy. Fido is running in the wild meeting chipmunks and happy bunnies. The reality is way different.
I know you said "Hey it's a bad idea, sorry", but everyone seemed to be concentrating on why it's bad for the environment, and not why it's also a horribly bad idea for the pet.
I would rather have my pets humanely euthanized than to let them go, or to let the government take them to euthanize them. But the government isn't going to take your pets, they'll just make sure you can't do anything but keep what you have, and add no more, and not get rid of any in any way. As all the reptile pets die off, then there will be no more to replace them, and eventually all will be gone.

I don't think anyone should be panicing and rushing around selling off collections and euthanizing their pets. But I do think we should all be very serious about fighting this so it DOESN'T come to that. If we don't do anything at all, then we have NO reason to whine when our rights are taken away.