Cat Fish Bowl

1. fluff
   September 14th, 2007 at 4:56 am

   In europe those fishtanks are illegal; Not so in the US?

2. Stacyj
   September 14th, 2007 at 6:33 am

   Heh, I had no idea there were any sort of fishbowl regulations in Europe, fluff - though after an initial googling on the subject that yielded "fish bowl porn" as the first hit (I DON'T want to know), I finally managed to find a BBC News article that mentioned round fishbowls being illegal because they're believed to make fish blind - I'd had no idea such was the case. Learn something new every day! But no, they're not illegal in America. Apparently we relish the sound of poor little goldfish thumping sightlessly into the sides of their bowls over here =P

   That cat bowl looks pretty cute when looking at it from above like that but I wish they'd had a picture from the side as well - are we going to have to keep our fish not only blind but living on a slant in order to get the most out of the cat-quarium?

3. GeekAlerts
   September 14th, 2007 at 10:23 am

   I don't think they are illegal all over Europe. My sister works in a pet shop store (in Sweden) and she said this was up as a proposal some time ago, but there's yet no law considering the use of these types of fish bowls (at least not in Sweden).

   Even if it was, I'd love to have the one above as a water bowl for my two cats.

4. Dim67
   September 14th, 2007 at 12:28 pm

   Fish-bowls are animal-abuse. because of the round shape the watervibration from the fish swimming around cant go anywhere and gets bounced back to the fish which drives it crazy.

   Did you know that a well taken care of goldfish that lives in a large pond with other goldfish can live up to 20 years?

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