F---ing Cat!

[Lexie3787]

Haha sorry was in the shower, my sister came home with a betta in hand and no tank to put it in. So I tried to get my 2.5 gallon ready as fast as possible but the water was still freezing so i put a heater in it. Little did i know the heater was broken.
The water was safe, i have a tap water purifyer and everything, but i woke up the next morning to a steaming tank. The poor betta was ripped apart. I felt the water and it burnt my finger. I threw that heater out

and i just realized that I suck at telling stories =D

 

[demonmagus]

oh.. thats how you did it

 

[Lexie3787]

hah I hope you all werent thinking that I just grabbed a fishy and accidently plopped him into a pot of boiling water

 

[prankster705]

I am sorry for your loss. I kind of agree with CFC about cats (just cats, not other fury creatures) because I am alergic to cats...

PS: Animation, Lexie and Genesis you all have way to long signatures (sorry for being a pain in the @$$ but we all have to go by the rules...)...

 

[OohFeeshy]

No, Lexies is OK if I remember... Me thinks it's 5 lines of standard text, I make it 5 lines...

 

[prankster705]

^^Now it is, it wasn't before...

 

[timmystood]

Sorry to hear about the fish. My fish room always has it's door closed the tank lids on, so my 2 cats cannot repeat what yours did.
Only 1 of my cats would even attempt it though - the other ones far too lazy.
But, there's plenty of birds and mice etc. where I live for my active cat to catch (As I am always finding out! )

 

[Jue]

I'm really sorry to hear about your poor fish. It must have been awful for you to find him like that

BUT I've got to say that I'm disgusted by the remarks of some members on here. I thought you were actually animal lovers? I think not!

At the end of the day cats are hunters and they do what comes naturally to them given the chance. I've got cats and fish - the fish are kept secure by strong lid etc and hopefully I won't ever go through losing any of mine like this.

Jue

 

[prankster705]

^^Yea we are animal lovers, but fis are first (well maybe not, but certainly before something I am alergic to)... Yea I know, that the domestic cat is the most "ferocius" cat on the world, as it hunts more than 1000 species of animals...

 

[cujoho78]

Sorry to hear about your goldfish. It's bad enough having fish that beat up on other fish let alone having a cat scooping your fish out of the tank. I guess you don't have a lid for your aquarium?

 

[CFC]

I'm really sorry to hear about your poor fish. It must have been awful for you to find him like that

BUT I've got to say that I'm disgusted by the remarks of some members on here. I thought you were actually animal lovers? I think not!

At the end of the day cats are hunters and they do what comes naturally to them given the chance. I've got cats and fish - the fish are kept secure by strong lid etc and hopefully I won't ever go through losing any of mine like this.

Jue

The name at the top of the page says Tropical Fish Forum, nothing about other animals at all so its hardly suprising that a lot of the members think more of fish than they do cats or any other animal.

 

[Jue]

It's got absolutely nothing to do with the site being a tropical fish forum. Everyone has the favourite pet or animal. I'm sure that a lot of people on here prefer fish to other animals. At the end of the day we make our own chocies.

I can understand people being upset about losing a fish in this way, I'd be very upset myself. Quite honestly if someone injured or killed one of my cats and it had been deliberate I would personally string the b******s up in the most painful way possible. I would feel the same regarding any animal I saw being mistreated. However, what needs to be brought into perspective is that cats are a predatory animal like any other - they hunt for food. Would you put a Neon in a tank full of Angel Fish and expect them to not try to eat it? I suppose the Angel would be sentenced to death for following its natural instinct.

If you don't like cats, then you don't like them. Simple as. I just don't think that there was any need to make the distasteful remarks that were made.

edited to add: if you find this sort of remark appropriate then I think I must really be on the wrong forum - Tie a tea cloth round it's waste it's really funny because it can't balance and falls over- Also rip the cat apart and tell him what goes around comes around

 

[WILDER]

Sorry for your loss, not nice, my cats don't bother with the fish at all, kitty looks at then now and then, but i just tell her to get down and she does. R.I.P.

 

[MegTheFish]

Don't worry people, the cat won't be harmed I do understand that its natural for a cat to do this, both my cats are outside cats and are always killing birds and mice. I hate it when they do this but theres nothing I can do about it. Actually, we don't feed the birds around here because of the cats, so I guess that helps a bit. And before the "why don't you keep yours cats inside" argument starts up, we never intended for them to be outside cats, but they spent there first few months of life outside all the time so when we brought them home they got extremly pissed off that they couldn't go out, our male even started to destroy stuff.

And yes, there is a lid on the tank, its glass and theres a small opening going along the whole back of the tank, just big enough for our cat to reach his paw down there So that'll have to be fixed, just don't know what to do with it, don't want it to look junky as this tank is in our living room.

I didn't mean to start a fight

 

[grumpymole]

yeah sorry about your lose, my cats annoy my fish by jumping onto the sofa, which is level to one of the tanks and gazing at them intent on finding a way in one of my cats, kitty actualy jumps up onto the tank