To have released a goldfish into the stream behind our house

[roseability]

Had 2 goldfish (I got them years ago before DS was born) in quite a big tank and I thought they were well looked after

One died of natural causes so we released the other. My DS wasn't interested in them (only a toddler) and I didn't want him getting old enough to want more as I admit they need more looking after than I originally thought

Am I hideous? Mean? Cruel to animals?

Hit me I can take it

hahahahahhahahahaahahahahahhahahahaahahahahahhahahahaahahahahahhahahahaa

this thread is hilarious

Yesterday I hoovered up a spider

his poor hairy leggies sucked into the vortex of my Miele

bye bye my spidery friend

Quint, you have a koi a metre long!

Is it FrankenKoi?

No, it is a DraKoila - it is mainly orange and black specked!

You can see the news in two years time can't you.

"It has been discovered that the cause of the new wave of killer goldfish that is responsible for the millions of dead fish found floating in rivers, streams and in the oceans of the world is due to Goldie the goldfish released into a Mumsnet stream back in October 2008. We are closing in on the member responsible and will confine her in a glass bowl indefinitely".

I am joking by the way. I'm not having a go at roseability at all.

Is this thread a wind up?

I'd love to 'release' my parrotfish, maybe should chuck it in the Thames. It eats it's tankmates, so I have a 4ft tank with only 5 fish remaining. No one will take it on and I'm longing for it to die off so I can have a properly stocked tank again.

was he called Blinky, roseability?

I think I'll release DS1 and DS2 into the wild as they take a hell of a lot of looking after and it seems cruel to confine them in a house. Anyone know of a chimp sanctuary in the north east?

YANBU. My Mum used to flush the goldfish down the toilet dead or alive when ever we came back with one from the fair.

Send them to norway. They can survive of fishing and wild berries, and nobody minds kids pooing in the wild here.

I havent heard about gold fish being caught in rivers here, it is mostly trout and salmon, to put your mind at rest

Can someone advise me of a humane and legal way to divest of a mini-tank of SeaMonkeys please.....

Drop a toaster into the tank

pmsl @ roseability confessing to the police

FGS it's a fish

Sausages are more intelligent

I think it's a GREAT way for a fishie to die

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee and then flu

Much better than another 20 years swimming around a shoebox

What do you mean you dont keep a sausage as pet?

My dh has one, it is OUR pet, though, I can pet it too.

OI! My fish is more intelligent than a sausage. He watches tv, and chases the dkids up and down the tank from behind the glass. He gets excited and does a happy dance when we open the cupboard where his food is stored.

morningpaper, actually fish are quite intelligent and goldfish can be trained to do tricks.

They're often kept in substandard conditions and very few people take the time to research how to care for them properly and seem surprised when they don't live very long (a healthy, well-cared for goldfish can actually live decades).

They're not cute and furry, and don't cost a lot of money to replace which is why they've become "disposable" pets in our culture. When kittens are drowned because the owner can't be bothered with them anymore, there's rightly an outcry. Sick of your fish - just flush them, no-one cares.

Doesn't make it right.

It will spend years swimming upstream, looking for the orange bit where it is well camoflaged(sp)

My dh trained our Koi to do little tricks, and then eat of his hand. Then it became so big it though dhs hand WAS THE FOOD, so we had to stop.

But sausages are made from pigs which are much more intelligent than goldfish (are there some people on this thread who eat sausages who didn't know this?)