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Free - 2 Goldfish/Bowl/Small airpump

  • 11-06-2014 10:48PM
    #1
    misterheg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42 ✭


    Hi

    I have two well looked after goldfish to give away as they are no longer wanted and these will be yours for free! They need to go to a good home and you get the 2 fish, the plastic bowl, stones, small airpump to be hooked up to the mains.

    I need you to collect asap, I live 10 minutes from Virginia, Co. Cavan

    Thanks!
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Comments

  • #2
    Jen Pigs Fly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭Jen Pigs Fly


    Why are fish seen as disposable pets? :mad:

    If it were a dog there would be outcry.

    And I would hardly call them well looked after if they're stuck in a bowl, worse than a toilet those are. Do them the right thing and put them in a pond.


  • #3
    misterheg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42 ✭misterheg


    Shall I assume you're not interested in having them then? I'll be home tomorrow evening if you change your mind!

    What a joker!


  • #4
    Jen Pigs Fly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭Jen Pigs Fly


    Sad days when an animal can just be pawned off on someone else because it's not wanted.

    I don't want my toddler. Free to a good home. :rolleyes:


  • #5
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,463 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    misterheg wrote: »
    Shall I assume you're not interested in having them then? I'll be home tomorrow evening if you change your mind!

    What a joker!

    Goldfish in a bowl is not "well looked after".

    There is a reason goldfish die so young and never reach adlulthood in those tanks.

    http://www.seriouslyfish.com/wp-content/sp-resources/forum-image-uploads/poshsouthernbird/2013/11/bowl-sequence-1024.jpg


  • #6
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,417 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    I'm sure the OP means well. The op could have just put them down the toilet bowl and not offered them free.


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  • #7
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,463 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    vicwatson wrote: »
    I'm sure the OP means well. The op could have just put them down the toilet bowl and not offered them free.

    True.


  • #8
    Jen Pigs Fly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭Jen Pigs Fly


    vicwatson wrote: »
    I'm sure the OP means well. The op could have just put them down the toilet bowl and not offered them free.

    That'd probably be better off then living a short, painful and cruel life in a bowl barely large enough to be a plant pot.


  • #9
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,417 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    xxxJennyxxx wrote: »
    That'd probably be better off then living a short, painful and cruel life in a bowl barely large enough to be a plant pot.


    Oh Relax


  • #10
    Jen Pigs Fly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭Jen Pigs Fly


    vicwatson wrote: »
    Oh Relax

    This is why Ireland is such a backwards country, animal rights don't exist set all here. Bowls are banned in European countries for a reason


  • #11
    misterheg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42 ✭misterheg


    OP means very well....No intention for the two fish to see the inside of a septic tank....The two original fish out-grew the bowl and was returned to the petshop and swapped out for two new ones and these new ones are the ones on offer.

    I was expecting to hear from you xxxJennyxxx? Not that keen then?


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  • #12
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,745 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    misterheg wrote: »
    OP means very well....No intention for the two fish to see the inside of a septic tank....The two original fish out-grew the bowl and was returned to the petshop and swapped out for two new ones and these new ones are the ones on offer.

    I was expecting to hear from you xxxJennyxxx? Not that keen then?

    OP, every fish will outgrow a fish bowl. There is not a fish in the world that will be happy in one of them. Hopefully you will be able to rehome these fish to someone with a pond, and then you well be able to throw out the bowl.


  • #13
    Jen Pigs Fly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭Jen Pigs Fly


    misterheg wrote: »
    OP means very well....No intention for the two fish to see the inside of a septic tank....The two original fish out-grew the bowl and was returned to the petshop and swapped out for two new ones and these new ones are the ones on offer.

    I was expecting to hear from you xxxJennyxxx? Not that keen then?

    I would take them but I have no pond, have a spare 100litre tank but won't be big enough for two goldfish unfortunately. So I'll have to pass.


  • #14
    goz83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,778 ✭✭✭goz83


    Could they be put into a lake? Plenty of those in Cavan.


  • #15
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,463 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    goz83 wrote: »
    Could they be put into a lake? Plenty of those in Cavan.

    Goldfish are non-native species. Bad idea to put them out into public waterways.

    Rehome or try to fob it off onto a pet shop.


  • #16
    RosieJoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭RosieJoe


    Put an ad up in Adverts, there is a Fish Adoption section there. You might get more traffic than here for the ad.


  • #17
    goz83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,778 ✭✭✭goz83


    Maybe a secluded pond?


  • #18
    misterheg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42 ✭misterheg


    Fish have now gone to a great new home, thanks all!


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