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A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
i agree to an extent, they’re already endangered, and new owners seeing them from mainstream media not having a clue what they’re actually dealing with doesn’t help. they are *extremely* delicate creatures, but to those who know what they’re doing and provide a good life to the ones they own as pets i’ll support all the way. you can make this argument with a lot of animals, just has more merit with axolotls as opposed to something like a bearded dragon.
gpt
From what I've read (so don't necessarily quote me on this reddit if I happen to be misremembering, wrong, or got bad info) that the main reason axolotls aren't worse off is because of the pet industry. Wild ones are closely protected since they have one lake left, but people keeping them and breeding them for pets are keeping their numbers up. It's one of those rare exceptions that you're actually helping by keeping as a pet if properly taken care of.