Do you think pet fish are aware of their imprisonment?

Cybercubed · 21-09-2012 09:54PM #1

I've been watching a pet goldfish swim around it's tank and it looks so depressed.

I hope it's not aware.

FortuneChip · 21-09-2012 09:55PM

He's not going to be much happier if you take him out

MistyCheese · 21-09-2012 09:56PM

Mine is. I make sure by reminding it from time to time.

Seedy Arling · 21-09-2012 09:56PM

Stay off the chronic man.

Tombi! · 21-09-2012 09:56PM

In what does it look depressed?

MistyCheese · 21-09-2012 09:57PM

In its bowl, I suppose.

SeaFields · 21-09-2012 09:58PM

I had a one tropical fish eat the rest of the fish in my tank....he was aware of what he was at....the pr!ck.

B.A._Baracus · 21-09-2012 09:58PM

They say Goldfish only have 30 seconds of memory.

question is tho, how did scientists actually prove that? :pac:

TheBody · 21-09-2012 09:58PM

Cybercubed wrote: »

I've been watching a pet goldfish swim around it's tank and it looks so depressed.

I hope it's not aware.

Hire some goldfish hookers for it to have some sexy time.

tin79 · 21-09-2012 09:59PM

A heron ate all the fish in my pond last week

I wonder if they were aware of being digested

MaroonAndGreen · 21-09-2012 09:59PM

I doubt they are aware :P

aaronjumper · 21-09-2012 09:59PM

They always seem surprised to me.

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 21-09-2012 09:59PM

Yes, every 6 seconds.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 21-09-2012 09:59PM

Two goldfish in a tank.

"How the **** do you drive this thing??"

Silverfish · 21-09-2012 10:00PM

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

They say Goldfish only have 30 seconds of memory.

question is tho, how did scientists actually prove that? :pac:

It's a 3 month memory.

Where To · 21-09-2012 10:00PM

Coarse they are.

21-09-2012 10:01PM

They do remember and they get depressed in small spaces, like the normal confined tanks they sell with them
I had one repeatedly attempt suicide

Before I knew any better

tin79 · 21-09-2012 10:07PM

Where To wrote: »

Coarse they are.

Clever

Cian92 · 21-09-2012 10:07PM

Where To wrote: »

Coarse they are.

Ah c'mon now there is a time and a plaice for that sort of thing.

B.A._Baracus · 21-09-2012 10:11PM

Silverfish wrote: »

It's a 3 month memory.

Funny the way you know that considering your username :pac:

SeaFields · 21-09-2012 10:12PM

Where To wrote: »

Coarse they are.

outstanding sir, well played.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 21-09-2012 10:13PM

Whats the point in keeping goldfish. What do people get out of it?

Silverfish · 21-09-2012 10:15PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Whats the point in keeping goldfish. What do people get out of it?

Mine are deadly. Also, they made more goldfish. So overall I'm up by 3 goldfish.

Wee Willy Harris · 21-09-2012 10:17PM

Do you think they're aware of their own reflection? More pouting than rozz purcell and the stone rosses combined...

MaxSteele · 21-09-2012 10:17PM

I feel worse for pet birds. Should be illegal to keep them in cages like that.

I actually find it hard to look at my mate's parrot just sitting their in his cage when he should be 200 feet high outside.

starlit · 21-09-2012 10:19PM

I doubt they do as I can recall that goldfish only have about a 7 second memory they forget where they were and what they did 7 seconds ago. So its like their 7 second memory is being wiped out every 7 seconds.

Silverfish · 21-09-2012 10:21PM

doovdela wrote: »

I doubt they do as I can recall that goldfish only have about a 7 second memory they forget where they were and what they did 7 seconds ago. So its like their 7 second memory is being wiped out every 7 seconds.

You mean their 3 month memory?

Where To · 21-09-2012 10:23PM

Apparently goldfish actually have a three month memory. Can't for the life of me remember where I read that.

starlit · 21-09-2012 10:33PM

I was sure it was a 7 second memory or was it 20 seconds? or 7 minutes something like that, 3 months? Didn't think they had brains but obviously they have to have some kind of one but minute one with very little grey matter!
I either read it somewhere or was discussed on tv.

Seedy Arling · 21-09-2012 10:34PM

Where To wrote: »

Apparently goldfish actually have a three month memory. Can't for the life of me remember where I read that.

You obviously read it more than three months ago. :P

midlandsmissus · 21-09-2012 10:35PM

I remember wondering 'do cows get bored' then heard later it was a deep philosophical question. Apparantley.

Do you think pet fish are aware of their imprisonment?

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