Keeping a Goldfish alive as a secret santa present...

[shouldbeinbed]

I was a student, and now I've got a full time job. All I can say is, make the most of being a student while it lasts. If it helps you to imagine you work harder than everyone else, fair enough, but that won't last long after you finish your degree.

At last, I can stop biting my tongue

+2 I'd go back to studentdom in a second.

My work qualifications (over 5 years admittedly) have seen me study long enough to have got my sisters 3 year degree 2 1/2 times over and all whilst doing a full time job too.
enjoy it whilst it lasts, and follow Shaun's sage advice of captain fishy.

 

[Wigsie]

All this talk about how much of a bad idea it is to give live animals as presents has made me realise its true... deep down I knew you were all right.......


.....So I have placed the kittens I bought my kids for christmas in a bag with some bricks and dropped the poor little blighters in the canal, just incase my kids didnt like them!

 

[darkstar]

And Darkstar, yes, I've been a student too, and I worked very hard, and got a first on the back of it, and then an MSc (with distinction) - I was in the library 9 to 5 and more, weekdays and weekends often, but really, it's not the same as a full time job, working to someone else's hours etc... It might seem it at the time, but it's really a pretty good life.

Yep, without doubt working full time is usually harder. I worked shifts full time in a warehouse for a few months, alternating on a weekly basis (06:00-14:00/14:00-22:00) and found it really tough, at least us students get to have a lie in every now and then

 

[Wheeledweenie]

I definitely like the voucher idea. There are many types of goldfish and he may have a particular type he likes.

If you know him well enough to know he'd like to receive a goldfish and would care for it then it's not a problem and the vouchers mean he can decide when he's over his grief for the previous fish enough to buy the new one and conveys the kind thought without a fish coming to harm if he doesn't want one.

My sister kept pet rats while a student, they'd been bought by another set of incredibly irresponsible idiots and she rescued them. She and her housemates kept them to a very high standard and they were in wonderful health throughout their little lives.

 

[Fnaar]

I knew things were not going to work out between me and a woman I went out with at uni when I had to dissuade her from buying a monkey that was in a local pet shop She thought it would be cute and fun. I thought it would be cruel and a huge responsibility, which she simply didn't have the foresight to appreciate. She didn't buy the monkey, and we went our separate ways. What the pet shop was doing selling a monkey, I've no idea, but hugely irresponsible all round, methinks!

 

[MacB]

All this talk about how much of a bad idea it is to give live animals as presents has made me realise its true... deep down I knew you were all right.......


.....So I have placed the kittens I bought my kids for christmas in a bag with some bricks and dropped the poor little blighters in the canal, just incase my kids didnt like them!

Now that's just not fair, you're meant to share pet care with your children, sacks and bricks included.

 

[Wheeledweenie]

I knew things were not going to work out between me and a woman I went out with at uni when I had to dissuade her from buying a monkey that was in a local pet shop She thought it would be cute and fun. I thought it would be cruel and a huge responsibility, which she simply didn't have the foresight to appreciate. She didn't buy the monkey, and we went our separate ways. What the pet shop was doing selling a monkey, I've no idea, but hugely irresponsible all round, methinks!

It's no coincidence that my sister and I both go out with men who love animals. In my case it means I have two cats because they were abandoned as kittens and my strapping rugby player of a boyfriend was massively distressed by the fact they had no one to love them.

 

[wafflycat]

It's no coincidence that my sister and I both go out with men who love animals. In my case it means I have two cats because they were abandoned as kittens and my strapping rugby player of a boyfriend was massively distressed by the fact they had no one to love them.

MrWC is an animal lover too. Two of our three cats are rescues and all of the hens are. And Francis is very, very much his daddy's cat

 

[darkstar]

I love animals, we have cats, horses and chickens at home. I have to say though (i may get a battering for saying this) i do get quite annoyed when people raise and donate huge amounts of money to catteries or dog charities etc when there are so many humans across the world starving and in need of vital medical equipment.

 

[Jane Smart]

I have two goldfish. I was at someones house who was moving abroad and when they showed me round their home, there was two lovely goldfish swimming in the bidet! ( yes seriously ) so I asked what was happening to them when they moved. He said we are flushing them down the toilet. I hasten to add he was very much joking.

Anyway, Bleep and Booster now live with me, they have done for the past three years now and I love them. They have a gorgeous tank, with filters etc., ( I must get a pic ) and when they first discovered the bubbles from the air stone they could not stop swimming through it! It was lovely to watch them, still is

 

[XmisterIS]

Instead of giving a live animal, why not go for this as a festively fun alternative:

 

[Arch]

I love animals, we have cats, horses and chickens at home. I have to say though (i may get a battering for saying this) i do get quite annoyed when people raise and donate huge amounts of money to catteries or dog charities etc when there are so many humans across the world starving and in need of vital medical equipment.

Each to their own. Some might say that the basic needs of human beings ought to be catered for by their governments. I've heard people say they'll only give to charities helping people in this country, not overseas - when we are rich enough and capable enough that there shouldn't be a need for charity, if only systems worked properly and money was more fairly distributed...

There's also the fact that some people may feel they've had more joy and love from animals than they ever got from fellow humans...

(I give to all sorts of charities, btw, mainly through shopping in charity shops, but Oxfam is pretty high up my list, so I'm not grinding an animal charity axe here...)

 

[Wigsie]

Now that's just not fair, you're meant to share pet care with your children, sacks and bricks included.

So your saying I should get my kids to carry the bricks to the side of the canal so they can share the responsibility in killing kittens just incase they are unwanted?

well it will teach them the value of responsibility!

 

[MacB]

So your saying I should get my kids to carry the bricks to the side of the canal so they can share the responsibility in killing kittens just incase they are unwanted?

well it will teach them the value of responsibility!

nope just what a numpty their Dad is!!!!!!!! twas a joke young Wiggo

 

[shouldbeinbed]

I love animals, we have cats, horses and chickens at home. I have to say though (i may get a battering for saying this) i do get quite annoyed when people raise and donate huge amounts of money to catteries or dog charities etc when there are so many humans across the world starving and in need of vital medical equipment.

I wouldn't disagree with that but as a society we are judged on how we treat those weaker and less able than us, for me that includes animals. Anything that is capable of suffering is deserving of help if needed.