Wednesday keeps on giving

Zu-Klara said:
Quite lovely, isn’t it? Well there’s no proof that he IS dead. There was no report in the Thurrock Gazette or what not. In fact no evidence WHATSOEVER! She just presumed he must have deliberately killed himself because he never came back begging for another delicious helping of Mum Zu’s infamously popular bobs and vagene :side-eye:
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Oh my. Was there no investigation or search for his body?
 
Floppet said:
Only one ever came back after the flush and luckily I was able to flush it again successfully before the spawn saw it.
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:D But surely they don’t actually drown? Or is it the whoosh of the flush which finishes them off? I mean it’s not like chucking DYING MICE down there
 
Floppet said:
In other news whenever it was time for a goldfish to shuffle off this mortal coil I just flushed them down the toilet as that's the quickest way to fishy heaven. Only one ever came back after the flush and luckily I was able to flush it again successfully before the spawn saw it.
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It's really cruel flushing them apparently..it's a painful and slow death and bad for the environment.

I mean no death is pleasant to be fair. Years ago I had a fish and I needed to kill it so I put it on a plate in the sun in the garden and left it for 10 mins. Came back and the cat was playing with it.

I really should stop getting pets.
 
Rachey said:
It's really cruel flushing them apparently..it's a painful and slow death and bad for the environment.

I mean no death is pleasant to be fair. Years ago I had a fish and I needed to kill it so I put it on a plate in the sun in the garden and left it for 10 mins. Came back and the cat was playing with it.

I really should stop getting pets.
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HAHAHA fucking hell. As well as not being able to BREATHE the poor cunt was simultaneously BOILED ALIVE and tortured by a fucking GIANT.

Just flush the poor bastards next time.
 
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big ron said:
HAHAHA fucking hell. As well as not being able to BREATHE the poor cunt was simultaneously BOILED ALIVE and tortured by a fucking GIANT.

Just flush the poor bastards next time.
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I've learnt since then. I now use Mandy and a saucepan.

I'm ordering clove oil. And trying to find somewhere that will sell me fish in lockdown.
 
Already replacing poor Bernard! That was a BRIEF mourning period! At least wait for the body to go cold!
 
Rachey said:
I've learnt since then. I now use Mandy and a saucepan.

I'm ordering clove oil. And trying to find somewhere that will sell me fish in lockdown.
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The pet shop across the road from me is still open and has loads of fish, want me post you some?
 
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Zu-Klara said:
Is it basically where they start swanning around with a glistening necklace of turd hanging from their nethers?
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Pretty much :disco:

Plus they bloat and slowly die a painful death. So putting him out of his misery was the kindest thing to do.
 
Beverley said:
But I don't understand: why did this fish need to DIE? Was it being euthanized or something?
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Because it was suffering :( he had been sat on the bottom of the tank for 2 days barely moving and bloating even more. I looked at ways to treat him but the the time they get that bloated it means their organs are failing so couldn't be saved. So rather than leaving him to slowly die in pain and be eaten by the shrimp, it was kinder to kill him.

Annoyingly, when I got him, no one I spoke to said fighters don't do well in hard water. And I had no idea how hard Isle of Wight water was.
 
Rachey said:
He had dropsy and was pineconing. I didn't just wake up and think "bit bored of day 56 of furlough, might kill a fish for fun".
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One of my goldfish used to get dropsy and I'd just feed him a frozen pea every couple of days and he'd be fine again for months. He wasn't tropical or anything and lived on his own, I suppose that's more difficult to do with lots of other fish in the tank.
 
Floppet said:
One of my goldfish used to get dropsy and I'd just feed him a frozen pea every couple of days and he'd be fine again for months. He wasn't tropical or anything and lived on his own, I suppose that's more difficult to do with lots of other fish in the tank.
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Yeah I did try the pea thing but it didn't work. Bettas are ridiculously hard to keep in the water we've got down here. I need hardy fish I think. My harlequins are doing really well and I test the water weekly, so I know it's more the fish than the living conditions.
 
Zu-Klara said:
:D But surely they don’t actually drown? Or is it the whoosh of the flush which finishes them off? I mean it’s not like chucking DYING MICE down there
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To be fair all the ones I've flushed were found floating on the top of the tank water already dead except for one who was dangling suspended upside down in the middle of the tank for three days and no amount of poking would make him swim. He gave a half-hearted wiggle as I scooped him up in a teacup but I think he was too far gone to suffer on his sewer-ride of a lifetime.
 
Rachey said:
Yeah I did try the pea thing but it didn't work. Bettas are ridiculously hard to keep in the water we've got down here. I need hardy fish I think. My harlequins are doing really well and I test the water weekly, so I know it's more the fish than the living conditions.
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What you need is fairground goldfish, they're bombproof and can live for decades in the skankiest conditions.
 
My dog picked a fish up out of our pond once and tried to bring it in :D This was AFTER half of the fish WENT MISSING
 
Floppet said:
What you need is fairground goldfish, they're bombproof and can live for decades in the skankiest conditions.
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I'm all for the improvement of both animal and human welfare as we progress as a society, but I do miss winning a fish on the old hook a duck.
 
Floppet said:
What you need is fairground goldfish, they're bombproof and can live for decades in the skankiest conditions.
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:D omg I know right!! They never die. But my tank is too small for goldfish. They need a lot of space.
 
Rachey said:
Were they expensive koi carp?
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I have no idea, the last time I saw the fish was when the pond froze during the BEAST FROM THE EAST and we had to put them all in a bucket before they SUFFOCATED :D
 
Soldi said:
I have no idea, the last time I saw the fish was when the pond froze during the BEAST FROM THE EAST and we had to put them all in a bucket before they SUFFOCATED :D
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Fish are a real joy to own aren't they :bad:
 
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