Abandon

Abandoning is an action available to unfrozen hatchlings and eggs. This can be used if you no longer want the dragon in question; you can then abandon it, and it will go to the Abandoned Page (AP). Another user can then pick it up. Eggs from Holiday multi-clutches or new CB holidays (if you have reached your limit) will be auto-abandoned in an hour. If you pick one, every one except the one that was chosen will be automatically abandoned.

Eggs and hatchlings abandoned gain a day the first time they're abandoned. However, this time can not exceed 7 days. Sometimes, when you try to abandon a hatchling, it will follow you and remain on your scroll, with text reading: "You lead the hatchling to a nearby cave and try to walk away, but it follows you." or "You try to leash the hatchling to a tree trunk outside a nearby cave, but it chews through the rope and begins to follow you." If this happens and you want to try abandoning it again, you must wait a day.

If you accidentally click an egg from the main cave which you do not want, you can abandon it, but you need to wait five hours. This is to make the five-hour wait more desirable (as Killing an egg still counts on your scroll as a live one for a day) and prevent people from taking unwanted commons in the main cave and simply abandoning them into the AP. However, there is no such restriction for eggs picked up on the AP or bred eggs.

In the past, if the AP exceeded four lines, it used to "block" the cave, meaning that no eggs from the main cave could be picked up until it went down to four lines. This would be accompanied by the description: "Near the entrance to the cave, there is a huge pile of abandoned eggs. If you don't want the dragons inside to die, you can take one of those instead." After Habitats were added to the cave, the cave block description turned into: "As you set off toward the (habitat you are travelling to), you see a massive pile of eggs. You decide that there are plenty of eggs there, and travelling is unnecessary." The cave block was lifted during the Christmas event in 2014 and hasn't been reimplemented.