[Is that really the best way to start, considering it's happened enough to form a whole species with wild populations and natural predation? He laughs and waves a hand.]

Oh--no, no, definitely not. I wouldn't feel safe handling either of them without some specialized training in Poison type ownership. Grimer and Trubbish are both incredibly poisonous. Breathing in too much of the gas a Trubbish produces can put you in the hospital for weeks, you know. It could probably kill small enough children and the sick or elderly outright.