Stop talking about it.

[wilomn]

How many of you had pets when you were younger that ended up suffering from ignorant husbandry, rehomed, dead before their days, or in the care of your parents. You never acquired any of those animals with those intentions, but it happened. How many pleaded for a dog or cat and dumped it with your parents or someone else when you went to college? How many of you are here pushing on this guy because you now see how easily you could have prevented all of those things. He's on the forums getting a whole lot more husbandry info than I ever had when I was that age. I'm not saying to applaud, but know when it's appropriate to keep pushing on someone and when you need to let them learn their own lessons, even at the expense of some animals. People get so cranky about how pet stores care for animals and pass that on to the buyers. Welcome to the pet trade. I'm probably going to upset some people saying that, but take a hard look at yourselves and tell me you were A+ all mighty animal parent from birth.




How many people fall into THAT boat that are passing judgement here...

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I'm just playing devils advocate here - I'm not actually evil or bitter. This thread should have died before it begun, though. He's young - he knows everything - you did too. Lay off and be happy that he's on the forums to soak in some knowledge second hand so he can deploy it when he's ready.

Being young is no excuse for his behavior at this point. Sure, at first, being young and stupid is a great excuse. But 10 threads and hundreds of posts later, young doesn't carry much weight anymore.