DH being cruel to small fish

Have you ever been to a trout farm, there are so many fish in them that they struggle to swim, never mind anything else.

I say let your DH have to tell them that his wife took it into a pet shop and the pet shop has reported them to the RSPCA. That way they won’t buy a new one.

Hope this is all sorted now. I couldn't live with someone who is being so cruel to an animal. He'd be out of my house faster than you can say fish.

do the right thing and buy it a proper tank, it’s your pet now. They are being cruel and heartless! That is a life, poor thing

Bullshit right back at you.

People torturing a fish is bad, but people eating farmed fish is not? If you are against animals suffering, the extremist is the one that justifies one over the other instead of condemning both.

Divorce?

Bullshit. There is a world of difference between eating for sustenance and torturing an animal for a cheap thrill. I don't have a problem with people hunting if they are going to eat the kill, I do have a problem with killing for the sake of killing. There are ways of consuming more responsibly by buying produce that at least has some consideration for how the animal(s) are reared and minimising the environmental destructive side effects. Just drop the extremism please.

Do you also object to anyone putting down a pet that is suffering severe pain and cannot be cured, because there is no such thing as "humane killing"?

I'd re-home the fish immediately otherwise you're just as guilty because you're allowing the cruelty to continue. Up to DH what he says to his friends. I'd be pretty unimpressed by his craven approach to date.

This.

FFS you take the fish and look after it yourself or give it to someone who can.

And then give yourself a slap for marrying such a twat.

Shame on them if they do, poor children being brought up by people like that.

Surely they know if it has been passed around, likely already been to their house.
God know what they are teaching their children.

Take it away from them and look after it yourself, this is unacceptable. Let him blame you for stopping this stupid ‘game’ if he has too but do NOT let him pass it on to someone else, this is beyond disgusting.

Thanks

You said nothing wrong, Hjjja. I don't know why your comment was deleted.

I would change the water, give it a better environment and refuse to give it back.

the people saying they would leave their husband over this and generally being hysterical cannot have very much going on in their live to concern them.

What a horrible spineless person. The ick would zip my vag shut for life

This is cruelty to a living being and your husband doesn’t want to cause a fuss? I’d tell them it died, pay the fine, put the fish in an appropriate tank and keep it and distance him from this bunch of horrors. Without being melodramatic that sort of attitude can escalate, what are they going to torment next?

The difference is that one involves killing fish for human consumption and one involves deliberately keeping a fish indefinitely in miserable conditions for human entertainment. Not the same thing at all.

You are making a massive assumption - you do not know me or what I believe.
You claim I am making a laughable deflection when I am simply pointing out the deflections in the claims that those who have called out the awfulness of animal abuse eat fish are (insert insult eg massive blinkers / selective outrage).

I have already agreed that animal farming practices are poor and harmful. But that is a separate issue than cruelty to animals for human entertainment. Conflating the two and alienating anyone who eats animals with lectures and insults does not represent your cause well.

It's same thing on a smaller scale. Fish-eaters just see one fish's life as worth saving, while the ones they eat are still destined to die for human consumption in terrible conditions.

The selective outrage is quite apparent and the blinkers are massive. The fact you believe someone pointing out this discrepancy might not care about animal cruelty is laughable deflection. I imagine they care very much and want those who eat fish to consider their dissonant beliefs and stop supporting industrial-scale animal cruelty.

There is no such thing as "humane" killing. It's an oxymoron.

The problem is that this isnt solving the wider problem. Its not enough. They will continue the sick game with the replacement fish to neglect for 'sport'. Not stopping a game of animal abuse for entertainment makes you both complicit in whatever happens to other fish bought to continue the game. It needs reporting to the RSPCA and the sports club.

This female sports team all got done for animal abuse for keeping a mascot goldfish in a jar and joking about flushing it down the toilet after a match: https://grapevine.is/news/2013/07/22/exaggerated-death-of-a-goldfish-causes-uproar/

I think it’s really weird grown men are carrying on like this, & that’s honest God ..
I’m being completely genuine when I say , any grown man I know , am friendly with , this just wouldn’t happen, & they’d be involved in team sport & what have you ..
It is cruel , yes …
I can think of at least 100 other things to get laughs from ..
Tell your husband to cop the fuck on , & to tell his stupid buddies to do the same …

I wouldn’t pay the fine either - tell them all to grow up !