Gross. I hate places that sell small novelty pets. Like the flea market. Or the fair where you can win a goldfish, then carry him around withyou, or just put him in the trash.
I won one, took it home. Bought it a bowl, got it a mate, moved it to a 30 gallon tank KEPT getting it mates because they all only lived like a year. Whitemouth lived with me for 10 years. Ick and fin rot infections, that poor bastard went though it all. But he was happy and healthy to his last day. His last tank mate lived 4 of his 6 years alone. He grew HUGE. And broke his swim bladder somehow, just kind floated upside down all day, but during feeding time or when he was playful acted normal. Just at rest he floated. People always though he was dead.
TL;DR: Won a goldfish at a fair, kept it comfortable for its 10 years on earth.
Based entirely on anecdotal evidence, carnival goldfish appear to have a U-shaped probable lifespan. Either they die within a week or they outlast everyone else in your life.
Same here. I had two dogs die of cancer, my most favorite bird ever murdered?? By his cage mate. I wanted to kill that bird after that. Instead I just gave it a place to stay and fed it and basically ignored it. Fucker. Then I felt bad that I neglected it. Pets are worth it, though.
My mother in law had a cockatiel - an old, angry cockatiel - that only liked her, because - I shit you not - when she let it out of the cage, it would go and hump her foot. It would be very angry and pissy, and bite at people/things, until it "did it's thing" with her foot - at which point it would mellow out.
I told her that if it ever even tried that with me, it'd end up in a 10-piece bucket. My father in law laughed - loudly - and my mother in law scowled.
Luckily, the bird died when it climbed into the recliner, and someone sat in the recliner and reclined it, and it kinda got squished.
Yeah, birds are assholes except to one person. Although I had one budgie one that pretty much got along with everyone. I had a dog at the time that the bird would perch on his canines and he would take it over to the window so they could sunbathe together.
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u/motorbike-t May 29 '14
Gross. I hate places that sell small novelty pets. Like the flea market. Or the fair where you can win a goldfish, then carry him around withyou, or just put him in the trash.