Flushing live fish

[Dr.Gonzo4]

As a person keeping a fish in a small glass box, yea I do believe it's your obligation to care for that fish to best of your abilities. If a fish is to the point of no return, then humanely kill it. Don't flush a suffering fish down a toilet to let it suffer more in some cesspool or sewer system. As far as my 4000 posts, I happen to he an active member on here and enjoy helping when I can. I don't consider my posts to be judgmental at all. Maybe you shouldn't take offense to a comment I made, unless you truly are a lazy prick. Then, I give my sincerest apologies for offending you. Don't come out of your face at me. I've never had a problem with you, i would like to keep it that way. Don't be the keyboard tough guy we all hate.


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at least before you flush it, have the cahones to cut its head off. I used to finish off my uncles big sick catfish from his pond with a .22 rifle, not because it was fun but because after trying numerous ways this was the fastest.

Just decapitate before flushing and you wouldn't be getting called out by people for abusing animals. I hate when people set aside problems with pets just because the best solution is to kill it. Its a thing that every pet keeper of any sort must do at times to the beyond hope sickly animals. so before you let it suffer alive in YOUR own **** and piss, slowly choking to death, chop.its.head.off.

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[Dr.Gonzo4]

I don't know about any of you guys but I was taught from a young young age that you have to kill your pets at times ( beyond hope sickness, massive injury etc). fish included. its not that hard. pull a trigger or force down with a butcher knife. The only other fish other then my uncles channel cats I've used a gun on was my sisters cichlids, they were all terribly ill beyond hope (she was a terrible keeper and would yell at me when I told her she should clean it) so I took my pellet rifle and gave em each a shot through the brain. instant death. no flopping around in their owners fecies.

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[petspoiler]

you tell 'em Gonzo!

 

[Dr.Gonzo4]

you tell 'em Gonzo!

lol I was already aggrevated with a bunch of drunks at work and then I get a chance to sit down for the first time in the night and bam, derpness

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[Bottomfeeder]

The guy who said that is an idiot, and should not have any living creatures under his care.

 

[robnin2002]

I have never had to flush a live one and thank goodness for that. When my buddies rtc got sick ( which it did often for no reason while the other tank mates were fine) he finally took it outside to his chopping block, got his knife/ax watever it was and chopped off the head nice and quick. Gruesome but none the less the fish didnt suffer from getting sick all the time.


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[Dr.Gonzo4]

I have never had to flush a live one and thank goodness for that. When my buddies rtc got sick ( which it did often for no reason while the other tank mates were fine) he finally took it outside to his chopping block, got his knife/ax watever it was and chopped off the head nice and quick. Gruesome but none the less the fish didnt suffer from getting sick all the time.


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My point exactly, you just have to at times. If it was big enough I would have used a .22 on it my machete probably wouldn't make it through an big RTC with one whack lol

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[krichardson]

That would have to either be a pretty dull machete or a pretty huge RTC...sounds like you just look for reasons to shoot your rifle.

 

[Dr.Gonzo4]

That would have to either be a pretty dull machete or a pretty huge RTC...sounds like you just look for reasons to shoot your rifle.

I've never had to machete a giant catfish, so I figured the thing would be pretty damn tough. And I was imagining like a 3 or 4 footer, those things have heads at like a foot thick.

And as I said in a earlier post, its the quickest way to put down animals. This was about putting down animals. So I wouldn't want to have to pull a machete halfway out of a giant half dead flopping pet of mine and try to hit it in the same spot. A bullet is much cleaner. And yes I do enjoy shooting, I do not enjoy putting down my pets. Its easier to pull the trigger on something then chop it with a blade, and MUCH more humane.

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[krichardson]

I agree...in most cases but shooting a fish,especially cichlids,is a bit much lol.