We are ALL pet friendly!

[AccountingDrone]

Others might be hiding out from abusive relation, and was worried about their pet fish.
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the now exhusband of my friend A. put her breeder cockatiels in the freezer when she went to visit her mother in the hospital [really did visit her mom in hospital] and used that as an excuse to move out on him. If it had been expensive fish he probably would have flushed them down the toilet.

[protege]

I miss my fishies. Even though they lived in a 10-gallon tank at my mother's, I no longer have them. They all died, and the tank was put into storage. Still, I'd like another one at my place. As for the kitties, I've only had them in the car once--the day I brought them home from the shelter. They didn't mind the car ride, but cried after they were inside the carriers. Kitty, on the other hand, *hated* being inside his carrier. He knew, that if he was in there...he was probably going to the vet. He'd fight, scratch me, etc. If he was really upset, he'd take a dump in there.

[shadowpanda]

In response to AccountingDrone, and the story of the birds in the freezer... it breaks my heart when people are unncessarily cruel to any creature, animal, child, adult. Especially when something is fairly powerless. A man vs cockateil? no contest unfortunately.
I find behaviour like that is very revealing, your friend is better off without him.
I understand not everyone is as attached to animals or pets as myself, but cruelty like that is unexcusable!

[LillFilly]

You know, there are seeing-eye miniature horses. Imagine seeing someone walking into a hotel/motel with one of those! Heeheehee.

[Antisocial_Worker]

You know, there are seeing-eye miniature horses. Imagine seeing someone walking into a hotel/motel with one of those! Heeheehee.

Indeed... They wear little sneakers on their hooves to keep from damaging floors.

[AccountingDrone]

In response to AccountingDrone, and the story of the birds in the freezer... it breaks my heart when people are unncessarily cruel to any creature, animal, child, adult. Especially when something is fairly powerless. A man vs cockateil? no contest unfortunately.
I find behaviour like that is very revealing, your friend is better off without him.
I understand not everyone is as attached to animals or pets as myself, but cruelty like that is unexcusable!

He was doing it deliberately to be cruel.

The reason for the divorce really takes the cake - a couple of guys at work got him a hooker/stripper for his birthday. He refused to get any sort of STD testing and was rather insistent on getting laid. She refused until he got tested. Then she came up to visit her family [they lived in FL, her family is all up in CT] and he killed her birds and told her on the phone. She figured he was jerking her chain, so she had a neighbor with a copy of the keys sneak in when he was at work and she confirmed all 20 or so of the teils were in the freezer. [She bred and hand raised them, and they sold to pet stores for quite a good price. I personally would have sold them and kept the money as revenge] She moved in with Rob and I with her kid and 6 months later after she had residency again she filed for divorce.

[shadowpanda]

Wow.

I don't know what else to say. What an awful situation

[Raveni]

The reason for the divorce really takes the cake - a couple of guys at work got him a hooker/stripper for his birthday. He refused to get any sort of STD testing and was rather insistent on getting laid. She refused until he got tested. Then she came up to visit her family [they lived in FL, her family is all up in CT] and he killed her birds and told her on the phone. She figured he was jerking her chain, so she had a neighbor with a copy of the keys sneak in when he was at work and she confirmed all 20 or so of the teils were in the freezer.

Does this story have a happy ending? Is it too much to wish that this man is paying his child support while in jail for animal cruelty and treating a nasty STD?

[PepperElf]

They have to be kept separate. They fight, otherwise.

though i think that's just the males no?
i mean otherwise how would you ever mate the fish?


and omg.. .i hope she sued him for that as well
i mean it won't bring them back but... it could fuck him over.
especially since that could be an arrestable offense... not only being animal abuse, but also killing a family member (since they were pets) and it can be taken as a threatening gesture (like he's saying as easily as i kill your pets i can kill you too) etc.

she could have his balls over a grill for that

[Kristev]

People can do that to animals? I'm so disgusted! I'd never hurt my kitty that way.

[wolfie]

though i think that's just the males no?
i mean otherwise how would you ever mate the fish?

Yes, it's just the male Betas that have to be kept separate. Most pet stores only sell the males, though, because the females aren't as decorative.

[AccountingDrone]

Does this story have a happy ending? Is it too much to wish that this man is paying his child support while in jail for animal cruelty and treating a nasty STD?

She is happily divorced and remarried [she emigrated to Australia to be with the new hubby] and luckily the guy wasn't the father of her son so there wasn't any messy custody crap to go on. She opted for fast and dirty divorce to get it over with. She considers it a happy ending.

[zombiequeen]

though i think that's just the males no?
i mean otherwise how would you ever mate the fish?

I had a pair of bettas I tried to breed once, and the female killed the male. Must not have been in the mood or something. We named her Domina (she was also white with black fins so it was kid-friendly) and she lived by herself. She did eventually breed with a different male, but we didn't separate them quickly enough and she killed him too.

My brother just dropped his lizard off at our house for the winter. Mum is super excited to be babysitting...but in a month or so I'll have to take care of Bugaboo or mum will kill her... It happens here a lot.