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

[shouldbeinbed]

This lad will benefit from the companionship a goldfish brings,

love it, those late night jamming sessions on guitar and bongos, up all night talking politics and the x-factor, drinking and smoking their way to enlightenment, man and fish in perfect harmony.

he is just nervous and can't come round to entering a garden centre and buying a new one. He could be close to ending it all... Monty could be saving his life!

or maybe he took the ribbing harder that people thought and is too terrified of having the piss ripped out of him by his cohorts to get another fish and could well be very unhappy to become the focus of fish lover jokes once again albeit with good intention on OP's part.

Seriously I'd be making more enquiries than asking his brother have you still got a fish tank. He's a big boy and if he wanted a new fish he's perfectly capable of getting one, the fact that he hasn't should be ringing loud alarm bells as to the suitability of the present. Leaving the morality of giving another living thing as a present aside.

 

[Wigsie]

Still not had a reply from Snapper_37. That comment about students was outrageous, and the aggressive attitude to the OP was uncalled for.

Would not call it outragous, Snapper is an animal lover and a bit of a tree hugging hippy (massive presumption ), perhaps she could have worded it all a bit better but she is lovely deep down.

 

[Wigsie]

Just put it in the box, with a bit of oxygenating weed. It'll last for ages.. There you go, the simple answer that was needed. no need for anyone to get b-oyster-ous

I think I will get one tomorrow and see how long it will live in a box!

 

[montage]

Would not call it outragous, Snapper is an animal lover and a bit of a tree hugging hippy (massive presumption ), perhaps she could have worded it all a bit better but she is lovely deep down.

I think being called a ****ing disgrace is a tad outragous tbh, and the shoot first ask questions later policy she adopted did surprise me as I previously held respect on her liberal animal loving posts.

Not that I care much, certainly been called worse things be ladies late after 9pm

 

[4F]

Would not call it outragous, Snapper is an animal lover and a bit of a tree hugging hippy (massive presumption ), perhaps she could have worded it all a bit better but she is lovely deep down.

And to be fair she was right, it is a stupid idea to give a pet as a present irrespective of whether they have a an empty goldfish tank.

 

[4F]

Them not wanting to look after a goldfish?

That is tough luck

Montage, this is the real issue here.

 

[montage]

Montage, this is the real issue here.

But I have described how the receiving person used to be a goldfish enthusiast. My abrupt response to darkstar was on the assumption I wouldn't be morally raped by people who will look down on me from the gates of heaven as I try to escape hell.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Personally, I'd advise against giving live animals as presents too - just my advice, you understand, that's all...

 

[darkstar]

Outrageous? Hardly.

Lighten up.

All right i'll lighten up, but comments like that are just annoying when i've spent the last 2 weeks living in a library...

 

[montage]

I appreciate people's advice on here, on whether my option is feasible or not. I also appreciate people's moral advice, and thank those of you who have kept it diplomatic, I am not ignoring this advice, and definately rethinking my plans, but to those of you who have launched in with your halo's, a piece of advise - people do not respond well to being bitten or refered to as "****ing disgusting", and I am sure that many of you have lived 1 or 2 years more than myself, so if I have learnt that lesson by now, you should have by now as well.

If you have a view, put it accross diplomatically or with humour attatched.

Nuff said

 

[Fnaar]

My dog has the brain of a goldfish

 

[Bandini]

My dog has the brain of a goldfish

How does he smell?

 

[Shaun]

Could I make a suggestion?

Why not buy him a gift voucher for a pet store so he can buy the fish himself?

This will give him time to check his existing tank and equipment, and prepare the tank for the fish/es (7 days is a good ball-park timescale for the chlorine to disipate and the water to settle at room temp.)

Whilst you're in the shop buying the voucher, you could get a little tub of fish food, and some bottles of water cleanser/conditioner to wrap up with the voucher.

This way he gets his fish, and you don't have to worry about the details of carrying/presenting a live animal.

Cheers,
Shaun

 

[Bandini]

Could I make a suggestion?

Why not buy him a gift voucher for a pet store so he can buy the fish himself?

This will give him time to check his existing tank and equipment, and prepare the tank for the fish/es (7 days is a good ball-park timescale for the chlorine to disipate and the water to settle at room temp.)

Whilst you're in the shop buying the voucher, you could get a little tub of fish food, and some bottles of water cleanser/conditioner to wrap up with the voucher.

This way he gets his fish, and you don't have to worry about the details of carrying/presenting a live animal.

Cheers,
Shaun

Deus ex machina!

 

[Fnaar]

How does he smell?

There must be some kind of receptor cells on the inside of her nozzer, linked to the olfactory nerve, I guess! But hey, whuddIknow?

Don't buy anyone a pet as a present. A goldfish is not just for Christmas... it's for several weeks longer than that!