...that's my issue with it, yes, exactly.

[He seems pensive, though.]

I usually stay close to Goldenrod City, and I keep most of them out where I've been staying...I've noticed that they don't seem to mind when I do travel, but I don't know that that doesn't come along with this "absolute obedience" business that happens when they're captured. That's always struck me as a bit strange, too - wild animals shouldn't act like that.