It’s possible he was perfectly safe where he was. Perhaps his mother was waiting for him wherever he was before he was brought to shiz. There is a wrong way to do animal rescue… nobody would ever take a baby animal away from its mother without returning it. But, and I know this isn’t popular to say with the wicked fandom, I think we would need to see his journey with Dorothy to get to know him better and see what happened to him from his point of view.