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* Preposterously common throughout the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' franchise, besides the video games.

** This is mainly because there is no reason to release a Pokémon in the game unless you bottlenecked on your limit and really have no more use for them. Most people who release pokémon are releasing the ones that they bred (at level 5 or 1 depending upon which generation you are breeding) and waiting for the one that they really want. In the Pokémon world, it would be like throwing helpless pokémon out onto the street and/or to be killed by other wild pokémon.

*** However, given that you can [[Improbable Species Compatibility|breed]] [[Lego Genetics|for moves]], it can [[Pint-Sized Powerhouse|take care]] of itself.

* Sakaki does this with Maaya, a wild Iriomote ''cat'', in the episode of ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' in which she first encounters him. {{spoiler|He comes back in a simultaneous [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] and [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]].}}

* A possible example occurs in ''[[Kanon]]'' where Yuuichi remembers caring for (and becoming quite attached to) a fox that had broken its leg, but once healed he has to take it back in the wild because he has to leave town. Needless to say, both parties are quite distraught. {{spoiler|The fox finds Yuuichi upon his return as the human girl, Makoto. Her feeling of loss at their parting is why she is so beset by irrational anger at him.}}

* ''[[Code Geass]]'': {{spoiler|Lelouch does this a couple of times to Kallen in R2. In the first instance, he pretends that he was merely using Kallen as a pawn to drive her away, when in reality he was trying to save her from being killed by the rebelling Black Knights. He betrays his intentions with a soft, barely audible, "Live on, Kallen." In the second instance, when Kallen confronts the newly-crowned Emperor Lelouch about his parting sentence and kisses him, he feigns a lack of emotion to again drive her away and make sure that when he dies as part of his planned Zero Requiem, Kallen will not die with him.}}

* In ''[[Help! I'm a Fish]]'', Stella has to send Sasha away (who for a good part of the movie had acted as Stella's [[Horse of a Different Colour]], and [[Team Pet]]), before going back into [[Absent-Minded Professor|Professor MacKrill's]] labratory. What makes it sadder though, is that Stella is a little girl, about five.

* There's a Shoo the Dog moment in ''[[Air Bud]]'' as well, but it doesn't last.

* Near the end of ''[[The Journey of Natty Gann]],'' Natty encourages her [[Canine Companion|wolf friend]] to follow the call of another wolf back into the wild.

* Parodied in the mockumentary ''[[The Independent]]'', during a scene from the fake movie ''Whale of A Cop''. The in-universe story goes that the movie was scripted as a ''Free Willy'' rip-off, but the producers wanted the whale to be changed to a cop, so we see a scene from the movie where a kid has to let the title character (played by [[Ben Stiller]]) go "to be with the other cops". The cop is acting like a whale for much of the scene, then stands up and begins exhibiting human behavior...up until the point where he spits water like ''[[Flipper]]''.

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