Live Animal Keychains Exist And People Are Furious

People usually don't spend much time accessorizing their keychains, mainly because they spend most of the time sitting on a random desk or stuffed in a pocket. Somehow, keychains are in the news and people are getting very angry. Why would anyone be angry about a keychain?

Live animals are being sealed in small keychains and sold to anyone who wants one. You have to see the new trend that has people both fascinated and horrified. Animal rights activists are highlighting the trend as an abuse of animal rights.

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Everyone has a keychain. For most people, keychains are something we pay very little attention to because they serve a specific purpose: holding keys.

For the crazy ones out there, sometimes they have a few personalized add-ons and have a fun design.

It's pretty common to have a stuffed animal keychain. For the even crazier ones out there, only a live animal keychain can please them.

People have started packaging live animals and adding them to keychains.

Here is someone with live turtle keychains. Let's just say that some people love them — and some people absolutely hate them.

If you think these turtle keychains are weird, you have to see the others...

Here's a table of keychains with both live salamanders and turtles. 

The trend is has found a flourishing home in China.

Vendors claim that the animals are provided with "nutrient-rich" water as a counter to claims that these animals are being treated too cruelly.

Here is a GIF showing a turtle moving in one of the keychains.

I'm really not sure how it's possible that the turtle is content staying in one spot forever, to be honest...

CNN has reported on these keychains in the past and found that they were being sold for as cheap as $1.50 each.

One vendor told CNN that the water contained crystallized oxygen and other nutrients for the animals to live on.

One expert told CNN that it is impossible for the animals to live long at all on the nutrients in the keychain.

"Lack of food and diminishing oxygen concentrations within both the water and the small amount of air in these plastic pouches will cause the animals to die in a relatively short period of time after the pouches are sealed," said David Neale, animal welfare director of Animals Asia.

I think most of us agree that Judge Judy's reaction here is appropriate.

Here's a video that captures a keychain vendor with live animals in China.

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