Grr!

[The Cannibal Monkey]

This made me pretty angry....my roommate's boyfriend was checking out Otis, and when I told him they get about 5 feet on average, he actually asked me if I would get rid of him when he got that big!!! Apparently according to him "a lot of people do that".....Argh! I just told him that I bought Otis for FOREVER, and that doing that is just very irresponsible...I really didn't want to be mean or anything...but that kind of stuff just really peeves me soooo much......

[neithersparky]

*cough*

I used to be a cashier at a WalMart, and we sold fish...I always used to throw random little "quiz questions" at people buying fish to make sure they knew what the hell they were doing. Anyways once this couple came through buying a pleco (you know, those suckerfish) and I asked my routine pleco question: do you know how big they get? And the guy says Oh yeah, they get too big for our tank, we have a 15 gallon. This is our third. When I asked him what he meant they told me that they made a habit of flushing their plecos, live, when they outgrew the tank, and buying a new one. I um...made them leave. o_o

So anyways yeah. Some people are just incurably stupid, I guess.

[tigerlily]

The stupidity of people, in general, never ceases to amaze me. SHEESH!!

[sweety314]

My former fiance's entire attitude in life was that "People are stupid". If you just keep telling yourself that, then when they do the totally dumbsh** stuff they do, you're never surprised or disappointed.

[recycling goddess]

when i worked at the pet store last year... an older woman (late 50's) came in and told me that she just flushed her pleco down the toilet and the f-ing thing plugged it up and she had to get a plumber in. she was actually complaining to me about how much this fish cost her!!!

i told her that i was disgusted that she would do that to a living creature and we would have happily taken it in and rehomed it for her.

i also told her NO when she asked to buy a new small one. duh!!! like i'm gonna sell her another one so she can kill it... "no, i don't think so" - some people!

*rant over*

[neithersparky]

when i worked at the pet store last year... an older woman (late 50's) came in and told me that she just flushed her pleco down the toilet and the f-ing thing plugged it up and she had to get a plumber in. she was actually complaining to me about how much this fish cost her!!!

I *knew* those two psychos at WalMart coudn't have been the only people in the world who did that. Unfortunately.

[Shelby]

Flushing a live fish? Wow.. honestly.. it'd be more humane to pop it in the freezer!

Any animal I get.. I get it for life (ah.. not including rodents ) I mean I'm hoping to have my burm and my anacondas and all the other snakiekids with me for the next 30 years!

[recycling goddess]

hey, i'm all for rehoming a pet if it's not working for you (or they aren't happy with you) - as they are alive and not a possession... but flushing them cause you don't want them anymore... and obviously she never even checked into rehoming it... made me sick!!!

[ddbjdealer]

Any animal I get.. I get it for life (ah.. not including rodents )

I get my rodents for life.... Don't know how long their life is gonna be.... but it's for life!

[The Cannibal Monkey]

Boy I wish rats lived longer....when they're not making snake food, they make the most amazing pets...


I just can't fathom how someone could buy any animal and PLAN to "get rid of it" when it got bigger....it's so unbelievably immature and irresponsible. It was the equivalent of asking someone if they were going to get rid of their puppy when it grows up; unfortunately this probably isn't very uncommon either >__<