• REDACTED@infosec.pub
    5·
    13 hours ago

    I’ve never bought fish or cage-pets because I’ve always seen it morally wrong - buying living thing, imprisoning it in a small enclosure for your own entertainment. Then my sister got me a hamster for birthday. I constantly felt bad for the thing and wanted to set it free, but also didn’t want to hurt my sister since she occasionally came to visit. Lived to the best of my comfort-assisted abilities for 3 years till death.

    • root@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      fish are great if you know how to keep them

      you need ATLEAST 10 gallons

    • bstix@feddit.dk
      1·
      2 hours ago

      If reincarnation works, I wouldn’t mind being a gold fish in my next life.

      Just eat, shit, sleep every day. Occasionally nudge female fish to lay eggs.

      Good times.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      I moved in with a roommate a couple of years ago and she immediately went off on a two-week vacation the day I moved in. When she got back she said “oh my god the guinea pig is dead!” I didn’t even know she had a guinea pig, it was in a covered cage in an unused room in the house. She forgot to tell me about it and what to do to take care of it.

    • ExtraMedicated@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 hours ago

      It doesn’t help that all the fancy tubes and playthings for hamsters were expensive as fuck. I dreamt of a complex pipe structure spanning the width of my wall. All I could afford was a couple curve pieces and a ball that they could roll around in.

  • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
    41·
    1 day ago

    Real talk: putting almost any lifeform in to too-small an enclosure, with too few elements from their natural environs, is a pretty effective way to make their lives more miserable and get the least-interesting experience out of appreciating them.

    /mini-rant!

    • cholesterol@lemmy.world
      9·
      9 hours ago

      As a kid I went to an aquarium, and they had goldfish, but instead of creating some micro-habitat like in all the other tanks, they had just put a bunch of mirrors in there and all smooth surfaces. A plaque explained that the gold fish as a breed/species no longer had a natural environment, so didn’t require any similarity to one either. And even as a kid I remember that striking me as just incredibly stupid.