🚀 go-pugleaf

I have been following the small thread about the cost of dogs in pet
shops. Personally, I hate seeing dogs and cats in small glass "cages" -
it makes me want to take them away from there and give them a good home.
I guess that's part of the reason for the cages...

What gets to me more, though, is the horrifying way that fish are
treated in these stores.

I know that many people do not think of fish as intelligent animals (you
should meet mine.. they know when it's feeding time and how to get my
attention), but that is no excuse to treat them in the way they are
treated.

This Christmas I have seen countless "goldfish bowls" - so small that
the average goldfish would die within a few weeks. I see tanks
overcrowded, with fish suffering from signs of stress. 

One pet shop I went into had a tank with about 50% of the stock dead. I
mentioned this and pointed out that as the water cycles through every
tank, that the diseases would probably affect all the other stock as
weel. The reaction "Doesn't matter - we get more on Tuesday".

When are organisations like the RSPCA going to extend their wings to
cover those pets with no voice at all who are treated worse than any
other?

Kersti.