Hypothetical Moral Dilemma

[snakehunter]

OK this is something I have always fantasized about, finding a wild albino ___________ (fill in the blank)

Lets say your out field herping, just in general, it was a nice day and you figured you would go and lift a few logs and snap a few pix, just for the liesure excercise and bliss of being in the field.

You come upon a promising log or piece of tin, and upon lifting it you find an albino, or other morph animal. WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

In general albino animals do not fair as well as normal specimens of their species, and that it is safe to say an albino animal will probably not make the first winter. If you where in this situation would you keep the animal, if say it where a 'mander or species of snake (nonvenomous if you didnt have a license) That you knew the general husbandry for?

As a child it was always enforced upon my brother and I that an animal in the wild deserves its freedom, and that it is morally illegal to keep a wild animal.

Assuming that the species was not protected, and was a species you find commonly, do you think it would be selfish to heep the herp?


Here is my prospective:
There would be a few things that would have to take affect for me to collect the animal:

1) the animal MUST be a juvinile, if it where an adult I would assume it where healthy and thriving, and fairing well despite its color change.
2) It must be a common species for my area
3) It must be unprotected
4) and I MUST know how to care for it prior to collection.

Do you think this is immoral, or do you think that it is 'saving the animal'?

Any insight would be appreciated.
-Jacob