{"id":22831,"date":"2022-10-17T18:54:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T22:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=22831"},"modified":"2022-10-17T21:32:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T01:32:38","slug":"new-zealand-pet-shelters-are-being-swamped-with-axolotls-are-minecraft-and-tiktok-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=22831","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand pet shelters are being swamped with axolotls. Are Minecraft and TikTok to blame?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5e993f3c5e6e46ef962a613bc1889dca864afe9a\/0_339_5122_3074\/master\/5122.jpg?width=620&amp;quality=45&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=none\" width=\"340\" height=\"204\">Thousands of the smiling amphibians have been handed in, as some owners of the hot new pet are overwhelmed by unexpected arrivals<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/14\/new-zealand-pet-shelters-are-being-swamped-with-axolotls-are-minecraft-and-tiktok-to-blame\">New Zealand pet shelters are being swamped with axolotls. Are Minecraft and TikTok to blame?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>So I looked into these <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Axolotl#Captive_care\" target=\"_blank\">as a pet<\/a>, starting with the Wikipedia page&#8230; so not horribly complicated; specific but readily available food, temperature control, etc.  But also in some <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/99percentinvisible.org\/episode\/model-organism\/\" target=\"_blank\">existential trouble<\/a>, at least the wild species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>META: look <s>at that<\/s> all the linking!!  Right to thew sp[ecific para on caring for these guys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, Minecraft and TikTok are as responsible for this problem as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Duke_Nukem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Duke Nukem<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.callofduty.com\/ca\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">COD<\/a> are to mass shootings or other violoence buy kids etc.   The fucking peole that bought these things are responsible.  i was gonna say charge them a significant fee for taking these offspring, but then peopell will just terminate them.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of the smiling amphibians have been handed in, as some owners&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1494,1482,445,1495],"class_list":["post-22831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-lizards","tag-minecraft","tag-pets","tag-tiktok","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}