Comments on: A Humane Goldfish Bowl http://www.the-vu.com/2009/12/a-humane-goldfish-bowl/ An Internet Magazine - Online Every Day Since 2000, at the-vu.com Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:12:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: admin http://www.the-vu.com/2009/12/a-humane-goldfish-bowl/comment-page-1/#comment-13991 admin Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:34:27 +0000 http://www.the-vu.com/?p=2067#comment-13991 Passing on a comment at the writer's request because she cannot spell well in English language. "I think it's okay to put one in a bowl when it is very small, as long as it is relocated when it gets to about 5 cm maximum length including tail. If the water is always clean, then it's okay and it's great to have a portable pet". Admin. Passing on a comment at the writer’s request because she cannot spell well in English language.

“I think it’s okay to put one in a bowl when it is very small, as long as it is relocated when it gets to about 5 cm maximum length including tail. If the water is always clean, then it’s okay and it’s great to have a portable pet”.

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]]> By: Flo http://www.the-vu.com/2009/12/a-humane-goldfish-bowl/comment-page-1/#comment-13880 Flo Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:33:40 +0000 http://www.the-vu.com/?p=2067#comment-13880 A goldfish only exists because it was bred. But it's still a living being that deserves and depends on our husbandry. Occasionally a goldfish will live long in a big tank or a pond, but 99% of goldfish die small and young due to poor care or because they are fed to other pet fish. So if you rescue a little feeder fish from the pet store's death tank and put it in a bowl for a year and keep the water clean, then relocate it when it grows larger, you are doing something good, not something cruel. But one day for the water is about the maximum so it's a commitment. A goldfish only exists because it was bred. But it’s still a living being that deserves and depends on our husbandry. Occasionally a goldfish will live long in a big tank or a pond, but 99% of goldfish die small and young due to poor care or because they are fed to other pet fish. So if you rescue a little feeder fish from the pet store’s death tank and put it in a bowl for a year and keep the water clean, then relocate it when it grows larger, you are doing something good, not something cruel. But one day for the water is about the maximum so it’s a commitment.

]]> By: Machete Machete Oink http://www.the-vu.com/2009/12/a-humane-goldfish-bowl/comment-page-1/#comment-13879 Machete Machete Oink Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:42:02 +0000 http://www.the-vu.com/?p=2067#comment-13879 I've been wondering the same. More than one mention of this un-named hormone around the www, but no qualification. It may be an urban legend hormone. Maybe someone imagined it and others took it as true. Some say it stunts growth and the internal organs then grow too big, and others say it stunts the growth of the organs. Both sound cruel, but is this real? Perhaps if someone has a fact rather than a viewpoint we might get somewhere with this. I like the idea of keeping a small one in a clean bowl and then returning him to the store when it grows to a certain size. Sounds like a rescue to me. I’ve been wondering the same. More than one mention of this un-named hormone around the www, but no qualification. It may be an urban legend hormone. Maybe someone imagined it and others took it as true. Some say it stunts growth and the internal organs then grow too big, and others say it stunts the growth of the organs. Both sound cruel, but is this real? Perhaps if someone has a fact rather than a viewpoint we might get somewhere with this.

I like the idea of keeping a small one in a clean bowl and then returning him to the store when it grows to a certain size. Sounds like a rescue to me.

]]> By: Hodge http://www.the-vu.com/2009/12/a-humane-goldfish-bowl/comment-page-1/#comment-13878 Hodge Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:25:39 +0000 http://www.the-vu.com/?p=2067#comment-13878 However... after posting my comment earlier, I found this article: http://www.hennet.org/docs/newsletters/HEN_2009_01.pdf in which Cynthia Hua writing for the Humane Education Network says, "In small spaces, they excrete a growth-stunting hormone and this leads either to organ compression or organ underdevelopment." She does not name the hormone and I find no other mention of it, but I think that if such a hormone really exists, that could be another argument against even the cleanest bowl. However… after posting my comment earlier, I found this article: http://www.hennet.org/docs/newsletters/HEN_2009_01.pdf in which Cynthia Hua writing for the Humane Education Network says, “In small spaces, they excrete a growth-stunting hormone and this leads either to organ compression or organ underdevelopment.”

She does not name the hormone and I find no other mention of it, but I think that if such a hormone really exists, that could be another argument against even the cleanest bowl.

]]> By: Hodge http://www.the-vu.com/2009/12/a-humane-goldfish-bowl/comment-page-1/#comment-13877 Hodge Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:19:28 +0000 http://www.the-vu.com/?p=2067#comment-13877 Well first of all merry xmas. As a goldie enthusiast I search for and read anything I can find on the subject, usually every day, and to find this article was quite a shock. Initially I wanted to leave a negative comment about how it is wrong to keep a goldie in a bowl, but I re-read this and then re-read it again, and I have to say I cannot disagree with your logic here. You have changed my mind. Well first of all merry xmas. As a goldie enthusiast I search for and read anything I can find on the subject, usually every day, and to find this article was quite a shock. Initially I wanted to leave a negative comment about how it is wrong to keep a goldie in a bowl, but I re-read this and then re-read it again, and I have to say I cannot disagree with your logic here. You have changed my mind.

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