Yup mine is 10! Literally the size of a samll cat, the only fish I have been able to keep alive... I think it's because he lives at my parents house... hence the thread I started "fish killer."

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Originally Posted by Aurora_Bell

yup mine is 10! literally the size of a samll cat, the only fish I have been able to keep alive... i think it's because he lives at my parents house... hence the thread I started "fish killer."

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Aurora, I feel your pain.

I figured that since I had to get a 20 gallon tank for Goldie (don't laugh, my kids named him) I might as well get more fish. After all, one fish in a 20 gallon tank is kind of sad.

All but one died. It's a bottom feeder. Now it's him and Goldie, together to the end. I give up with the rest, I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I can't be that wrong, Goldie and Fang (ya, Fang, I know, my husband named him) are still alive.

Maybe I should get another goldfish. What am I saying! :eek:

Aww do it! I can live vicariously (spelling?? ) through you!! And since you told me you had a puppy...

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aww do it! I can live vicariously (spelling???) through you!!! And since you told me you had a puppy...

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Aurora, I have 3 dogs, 4 rabbits, a bird and 2 fish. :eek:

I just watched a show called hoarders where the lady had 76 cats, only 41 of them alive. Ya, there were corpses everywhere. The house was in such a state that she didn't even realize there were dead cats (some of them died years ago) among the live ones.

The whole house was covered with cat pee and poo, 3 inches deep. She thought she was saving them.

When they cleaned out her garage they found another 37 corpses and a live skunk! :eek:

I'm afraid if I get one more pet, even a fish, I might head down that road. Wait... I take care of my pets. All of them are vet checked yearly or on a need to basis. I even paid $300 to neuter a rabbit!

If I get another pet and hubby kicks me out can I live with you? ;)

I'm only kidding. I hope you know that.

Yes I knew that! OK sad story... here in NS in a place called Cape Breton there was a "spca" branch called celtic pets. The Cape Breton Post: Local News | Celtic Pets was subject of multiple investigations
Google it. I can't even bring myself to tell the story. I have fostered 3 dogs that came from that "shelter". 95% of the cats we have( in our shelter) are from there. It is sad. Can't think of anything else to describe it but sad, disgusting, wrong. I was there when they took the animals out of Gail benoits house here in NS
Information about Gail Benoit - Puppy Broker in Nova Scotia

Now I am hijacking your thread! Sorry!
I know you are a good pet owner. It shows in all your posts. You talk about your animals, like most people talk about their kids (I mean that as an extremely positive thing, I am just lacking the words I need to express it)!
And yes you and all you fur fur babies can come! Lol

I feel the cat issue, the older lady across the street had at least 27 cats last year, but it got worst, their next door neighbor starting setting wire animal traps and catching the cats when they were outside, we don't know where they went or what he did with him, she is down to about 5 cats the best I can tell now.

Animal control said nothing they could do, the "traps" were not proof of anything ( sorry?? )

Ugg were they humane traps or were they killing the cats?
The woman across from me has 7 cats now, 5 females 2 males.
I can hear them allnight long. We will be over run by kittens this spring. I volunteer at the only local SPCA here in this town and we are so over run it's not even funny. I have reported her to the animal control, but unfortuantly it is not illegal to have multiple cats and not have them spayed or neutered. |I feel torn, I want them to have food and a warm place, but how can I support her by feeding her cats?
I feel like I am damned if I do and damned if I don't. I have an older dog house that I have recently insulated with hay, but I feel like I am just helping with this problem. I can't afford to get the neighbours cats spayed or neutered, but I can't stand to watch them starv and be out all night long with no where warm to sleep.

They were caught alive, but I don't know what happened after that, he was either killing them ( my opinoin) or he was just dumping them on the side of the road somewhere else.
But don't know beyond I just stayed out of it.

I reported several dog issues to animal control today, but not holding my breath they will even come look.

I really hate to hear that Fr_Chuck... I hate that there was a situation that needed to be reported. I think killing them or dropping them off on the side of the road is pretty much the same thing. It's so horrible I really wish that people had to be screend to own animals. I wish there was more reprecussion to those who are abusing the animals. I know how you feel, but I know what it's like when your hands are tied, and there is no rrom and all that'seft is to be euthanized. It's a hard place and a rock. And being stuck in the middle is the worst situation to ever be in.

On the show I watched animal control was involved, they were thinking about charging the old lady with animal cruelty.

They said that 50 unaltered cats can turn into 1000 cats within a year. They breed worse then bunnies.

Sadly all the cats on this show had to be killed. They all had a lung infection that is not treatable. Even the one week kittens they found had to be euthanised. :(

I like watching RSPCA Animal Rescue, it's basically like the show they have in the US with the 'animal cops'

There are a few sad stories, but mostly happy ones.
There was a lady on the last episode who had over 100 poodles, cavaliers and cavoodles (hence my signature)
They were horribly matted and they had just been left to breed freely. The puppies were not cared for.

They lived in 2 rooms of the house, with 4 dog beds covered in feces against each wall.

15 dogs had to be euthanised due to health and behavior problems, but 85 dog were successfully rehomed!

There was one dog (a standard poodle) who's fur was so matted and covered in feces that it almost looked like deformed lumps of skin.
He was fixed up, put in a foster home for a month and he is now living in his forever home :)

Aww I love it when I hear happy endings! I have a hard time watching those shows. :(
I know that animal hoarding is a 'real' thing but I think 99.9% of the people who have this supposed disease are really out there just trying to make a buck. That woman Zonda from Celtic pets said she is suffering from AH, but why sell them? To me that doesn't sound like hoarding behaviour. I think she suffers from "Iwant more money and I don't care how I get it" syndrome.