It's bad enough having to deal with the fact that you occasionally lose a kitten and you almost always lose a puppy out of any given litter. Arguably the best Lab breeder in the U.S. lost two pups out of my Ruby-dog's litter of 8.
Feeling sorry for lizards and snakes would have me a basket case!! :-D
You’re a classist! Reptilia are as cuddly as the majority of mammalia.
Speaking of which, DP just found one of our tropical anoles looking rather peaked. At first, he accused Bill and Tom of not feeding them enough, but then he noticed that the other two were looking fat and frisky. This third one wasn’t getting to the crickets quickly enough!
He put it in the cage with the chameleon, who gets lots of crickets and doesn’t move very fast.