Singapore is now exporting ... tattooed fish!
At Steve's Wonderful World of Pets in Williamsville, N.Y., owner Steve Lane is selling tattooed fish for the first time. Some have polka dots, some have stripes and others even have pink hearts.
The fish are imported from Singapore. Lane believes they have to be restrained and then tattooed with a tattoo gun.
Four of the fish were brought and taken to the SPCA for their opinion.
Spokeswoman Gina Browning says the practice is not illegal as far as she knows, but they don't condone it. "Morally and ethically what we're looking at is incorrect. Any animal lover would agree, it's so unnatural," says Browning.
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GE fish owners treated 'like criminals'
Christchurch fish owners say they are being treated "like criminals" by Biosecurity New Zealand after officials destroyed genetically engineered (GE) tropical fish at their home yesterday.
Cashmere tropical-fish owners and breeders Tristan and Carissa Clements said they were surprised when Biosecurity officials told them their brightly coloured zebra danio fish were illegally genetically engineered.
Five Biosecurity officials and two security guards visited them yesterday to kill about 20 fish.
A total of 300 tropical fish from five Christchurch properties were destroyed.
Officials said the fish were "humanely euthanased".
Biosecurity was told of the GE fish after members of the public saw them for sale on an internet auction site.
Other danio species kept on properties with GE fish were also killed.
Bailiff! Wack their peepees!
I grant this process is less destructive than the more common dyeing process of fish, but it is still worthlessly inhumane.
As for what Juliet says, your right. Branding cows is inhumane, clipping or bobbing a dog is inhumane, fishing is less of a problem for me, though I will not be engaging in any myself.
I grant any arguement over what is "natural" for fish is ridiculou; especially when I, as many others do, keep pet fish. However there is a level of responsibility in owning a pet that something like this clearly disregards. Until it is proven that this is painless and does not affect the fish's well being, why bother?
Pure aesthetic alterations or unnecessary alterations (i.e. declawing a cat, plus what juliet noted) seem far more unethical than anything. oh what people will do for money...