[mhking]

"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!" PING....

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[Redcloak]

I agree. Using baggies is cruel.



















They should use blenders.

[Support Free Republic]

Hi Mom!

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

[weegee]

Cat juggling is still going to be permitted at the fairs though, right? Right??!!!

[LibKill]

Free the goldfish.

Bag the activists.

[Sofa King]

Reminds me of the time me and my cousin were out fishing, but all we could catch were some carp. We laid them out on the road to watch them get run over.

[weegee]

Is the cruelty the way that the fish are stored? Would a tank be allowed?

Is the cruelty inthe way that the fish are given to the kids (in a plastic baggie as one might get at the pet store)?

Or is the cruelty that kids will bring home a goldfish but not have the responsibility to keep it fed and result in a dead fish?

It sounds like they are wanting to ban the practice altogether so I'd bank that the third reason is the real issue (pets and honeybees are nothing more than "animal slavery" < /sarcasm >)

[xm177e2]

Have funfair goldfish had their chips? (Activists say it's cruel to put fish in baggies)

Darn. I thought the headline said:

Have funfair goldfish had their chips? (Activists say it's cruel to put fish in bagpipes)

[4mycountry]

Uh oh.

[Servant of the Nine]

How do these fools think tropical fish always travel? They come in in plastic bags with water and oxygen from all over the worlds by air. After you pay in some cases hundreds of dollars for them, the store puts them back in a baggie for you to take home.

So9

[BraveMan]

Maybe the Royal Society should consider it art . . .

[Pan_Yans Wife]

"The fish can suffer stress and can die from a result of changes in temperature."

I thought this was the precise reason why they are put in plastic bags. You take the plastic bag, with the fish inside, place it in the fishtank that is already prepared and ready for new fish. You put the plastic bag into the fishtank, so that the temperature of the water can become equal to the temperature of the water in the tank. Then you open the bag, and let the fish out. This way they aren't shocked by the difference in temperature.

[honeygrl]

How do they think fish get home when bought from a pet store? They go in the same type of little plastic baggies. Now if they really want to bug someone they can always go after the live fish supply places that sell fish to pet stores. When I worked selling fish, they would send the fish bagged 100 per bag in a bag smaller than a garbage bag. That was usually for small fish like neons and guppies. Siamese Fighting fish (bettas) had it even worse. They were bagged seperately in tiny little bags much smaller than a sandwich bag with barely enough water to turn around in. That is why half of them look almost dead when you see them at the pet store. They are hardy little fish though and usually make it through shipment. In fact, we rarely had any dead fish no matter how many fish they bagged up together. They were rarely bagged more than 12 hours. If they had been bagged longer, there probably would've been a few dead ones. I once shipped 50 baby convict cichlids to a man via USPS in a bag with about 2 gallons of water. Not a single one died during the 3 day shipment. ANyway, moral to the story, there are companies that do much worse than the fairs do to the goldfish. Send them to Wal-Mart and let them see how many fish they kill every week due to lack of fish keeping knowledge. Goldfish aren't very smart anyhow. They have about the intelligence of a chicken. Cichlids OTOH have about the intelligence of a dog... especially Oscars. The fairs probably also change the water for the goldfish a lot more often than places like Wal-Mart so I doubt their fish suffer any until the little kids get them and try to make a water tornado in the bag. Even that probably isn't too bad since goldfish are river fish and like a good strong current in the water. That goes for the ones at the fair anyway. The fancy goldfish are freaks of nature (i don't think they even come from nature actually) and don't usually end up at fairs because they are more expensive. The fair fish are the same ones pet stores sell as feeder fish for big fish like Oscars. They are lucky the fair has them instead of the pet store.

[djf]

We need first person accounts. Can we get a coupla "activists" to hang out in a water-filled plastic bag for a few hours?

[LadyDoc]

http://www.applesforhealth.com/PetHealth/whygolfdie4.html

why do goldfish die?