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2010-09-10 07:08:06
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Thought you might want to read this website. Its about fishing rather than than keeping fish as pets, but its interesting to read. The part about livebaiting is especially full on. Made me want to throw up.
http://www.animal-lib.org.au/lists/fish/fish.shtml
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Interesting article. Thanks for posting it. As mentioned in it, one of the biggest problems is the lack of empathy with the fish. Since they are aquatic organisms that don't have the same types of mechanisms to express pain as other mammals. If you inflicted a similar injury on a cat, it would whelp and cry; a reaction biolgically similar to one that we would make. As a result, we relate to it's experience and are able to empathize with the cat. Unfortunately, fish do not react to pain in the same way, and since they do not issue the types of cues that we can understand, most people simply assume that they don't feel any pain at all.
In fact this is the number one reason why fish are treated so horribly in the pet industry by both retailers and hobbiests alike.
-- Ryan Chapin
HappyCichlids.com
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