>Ok don't flame me for cruelty to Goldfish.
[clipped story of sacrificing living fish to amuse ferrets}
 
RESPONSE: Why shouldn't one be 'flamed' for such a horrible practice?
(and yes, that's a serious question asking for an explanation).
 
OPINION:  It's one thing to buy 'food' for animals that need such a diet,
but to torture (and yes, I would consider fish dying from suffocation and
mauling torture) an animal just because it's cheap and 'expendable' is as
humane and letting a pack of dobermans loose in a room full of ferrets.
 
CONCLUSION:  Please don't try this at home.  Fish are animals who feel pain
and fear and CAN die traumatic deaths.
 
                                        -Erin...
 
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   Mr. Erin M. Ennis    |       Any sufficiently convoluted argument can
 eennis(at)zoo,uvm,edu  |       be made to appear to be science as the
 Water Resources Major, |       layman equates incomprehensibility with
     Biology Minor      |       science.                -Unknown
    Uni. of Vermont     |
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[Posted in FML issue 2323]