Questions about pets that become illegal to sell.
When a pet becomes illegal to sell to or adopt out to customers, what happens to them? I’m assuming the worst, given how cruel people can be, but I’d like to come here and ask to see if I’m hopefully wrong.
The pet in question is red ear slider turtles. Under Colorado state law, they can’t be sold here anymore(Something I’m glad for, people here have no damn idea how to care for them.)
The issue is… we still have some of these turtles, and they will not give us answers on where they’ll be going or if they’ll even go anywhere. I know the tank we keep them in now is much too small for any long term housing, so I hope they don’t expect us to keep them here for as long as they keep living, because that’s incredibly cruel.
With that said, I’m dreading the idea that they’ll be sent back just to be put down. That just seems unnecessary to me for animals, whose reason for being invasive is entirely the fault of ignorant humans. Can they possibly be taken to another state where they’re okay to be sold?