More than 200 Frogs Confiscated at OR Tambo

[Westley Price]

Does anyone know anything about this intercepted frog shioment at OR Tambo?

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/more-than-200-frogs-confiscated-at-or-tambo-20160128

[Sico]

I hardly expect that they would have become pets, more likely they would have become food (bull frogs) or traditional medicine (rain frogs). I can easily see the bullfrogs being bred in capitvity, but I doubt the rain frogs were captive bred.

[Westley Price]

I also thought with the destination country that they were due to be sold as medicine.

[Ruan Stander]

Definitely not pets.

[Bushviper]

They were shipped as pets. It is far too expensive to ship frogs as food.

Rumour has it that these were part of a larger shipment of animals but were snuck in not expecting an inspection. The animals that had permits were sent to the Far East and the frogs were taken to Pretoria zoo. Some were already dead and I have no idea what has happened to the others. They will not be destroyed before the court case and I have heard they are going to throw the book at the exporter.

We all know the rain frogs are not captive bred. If they were destined to be medicine they would have been killed and dried which funny enough would not have been against the law. The fact that they were alive is the offence. The bullfrogs are the ones which will cause the harsh penalty. Dead or alive they are protected.