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BillieTheBot
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I'm thinking of getting my cat a goldfish in a bowl as a treat but my mate thinks its a bit cruel.
Your thoughts?
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Its not terribly natural to present a predator its prey in a small bowl though is it.
You dont normally buy them alive though do you?
Yep you can do... Like you buy live cricket to give to food for gecko, praying mantis and others...
Okay then, crickets for a spider.
This is true.
If you REALLY want to treat your cat (If it wants to hunt, it can go in the garden) buy it Prawns. They fucking LOVE prawns. Bag of prawns and your cat will be happy as larry.
Goldfish actually also make good pets as well, if you like fish. If not, I think it be a bit cruel... but I like fish, as most animals. TBH, it's a cat too. It would probably catch it, kill it, eat half of it and leave the rest hidden somewhere until to tread on it.
Like the infinte birds they tend to catch.
On another note, my mates cat used to catch his neighbours fish. Then they put a big net over the pond. The cat walked out to the middle on the net and stuck its paw through the holes to get the fish.
not serious hunting that mate.
give a harpon the cat as well...
It doesnt really like prawns, it does like tuna, so I suppose I could just give him some of that, but I thought the fish would be more exciting for it.
And put the cat in the bowl too, now you have a fair fight...
That it would like then!
NMM... cat in a bowl
Dogs don't eat cats.
It would have to be a large bowl, the tuna would be as big as my cat.
As for fairground goldfish - I suspect they're not allowed anymore, its only in the good old bad old days you could get them there.
You still can when the Carnival hits town... at least, last time I was there.
tbh, i think if you got your cat a goldfish in a bowl, it would try and catch it for a while, quite possibly give up when it realised it was getting its paw wet, and then if it did happen to catch it, it would probably just kill it or play with it without even eating it, and then try and give it back to you as a "present".
I fear that's going to be the case, although he's not bothered about getting his paw wet, his breed dont mind water like normal cats.
I only give it to them very rarely because a) its too expensive, and b) they'll get fat.