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i'm highly doubtful sam, or any other fish, would enjoy being jostled around in a swinging ball of water.

think of what happens when you let your children carry the liter of carbonated beverage home from the store. now put a fish in the middle of this.

this is a fun idea.....not a function one. maybe a bowl with a mountable stroller?

It would be fun with those little motorized fish that they used to have when I was a kid. Do they still make those?

agree with HH. The fish in the pic looks rather alarmed.

Yeah, I think they still make those fish... I used to have a wind-up dolphin.

Thank you, Healthyhome.

Not to mention the incredible amount of stress that would be put on a fish constantly changing its environment. It would be dead within a week. The bowl is FAR too small be used as a full-time home, but you can just move fish from tank to bowl to outdoor park and expect it to survive. It will suffer.

I don't mean to suck the fun out of something visually appealing (and the post was written very sweetly), but this bowl ultimately amounts to little more than animal cruelty.

I think it could be cute for something like a Beta Fish, something that does better in small areas. But carrying it around would not be so awesome, so I think it would just be a really interesting option for a home bowl for a fish that does well in small areas.

Minus the fish and the H2O, it would make a very stylish contribution receptacle for panhandlers.

does anyone else find the idea of a mobile goldfish bowl for children of divorce about the saddest thing imaginable? I would want to cry every time I looked at it.

Sad and cruel. It doesn't matter how cute it is if the poor animal inside is just going to suffer.

How much capacity for suffering does a fish have, actually? I don't know myself, I'm not a fish. Just asking.

It's an attractive design. You don't have to move it if you don't want to.

AT, haven't you learned? Post a fish in anything smaller than a garden tub and people are going to begin screaming "cruelty." I just hope that those with conviction enough to complain about this bowl have conviction enough to donate, volunteer, etc. Go spend a few hours at the Humane Society and leave those of us here for shelter porn alone. Actually accomplish something.

Also, this is (relative to the size of the animal) a much bigger space than that we give the lobsters sold for food. Not to mention shellfish are often boiled alive...but I don't see any of you protesting at the grocery stores.

It doesn't look like a very comfortable handle. I think you might get pretty far from home with that, feeling kind of eccentric and hoping to get attention, and then kind of get over the whole thing and wish you didn't have to carry it all the way back.

As to the comment about shelter porn, are you a fish? Is taking a fish on a walk something you plan to do? I do wish people would set aside some things that may be cruel and actually just focus on how they are also stupid. Because I want to take my plant for a walk, visit some of its relatives and maybe they can talk about what it's like to live in the ground vs. in a pot. Then we can go sit on a bench at the mall and make fun of the sucker trees that have to live inside the mall. I and my plant are really looking forward to this outing. I hope it rains.

Amusememusically, it's not about the size of the bowl at all. Fish are delicate to the temperature of the water, especially the cheap fish that we are wont to give small children. Whenever you move a fish from tank to tank or bowl to bowl there is this really annoying process you have to do to ensure that the fish is gradually acclimated to it's new water. You have to put a bunch of the water from the tank it is currently in, into a baggie, then put the fish in that baggie. Then you have to sit the baggie with the fish and water in it in the new tank of room temp water, and wait a few hours before releasing your fish into it's new environment.

If you have a cheap fish and don't go through this process it's probably gonna die within the first few tank transfers.

It's just not practical for what they are marketing it for. Unless you're the type to keep replacing your children's fish and neglecting to tell them that it's not the same one they've had the whole time.

It's not good for the fish which means it's not good for the kid because the kid who probably has enough stressed with his divorced parents now has to deal with his favorite fish dying. And can you imagine doing that acclimation process every time the kid leaves for the other parent's house? It's not even worth it for a weekend trip.

But yes I'd love this just as a stationary bowl for a beta.

Not a good idea at all----

I think this is sad and cruel. You really think a fish wants to be walked?

I feel sorrier for the child than for the fish.

I like how someone said the fish looks frightened. LOL How is that?

Dear Amusememusically,

I just spent all day working at an animal welfare agency, came home and logged in an hour answering email for the animal-welfare nonprofit I founded 4 years ago and poured countless hundreds of hours of free labor into for the sake of reducing the suffering of homeless pets and am vegan and don't shop in crappy supermarkets that bind and hoard lobster so I am not inspired to protest my markets. Hopefully you'll approve my desire to post! (Oh, and before someone else asks why I don't help any *people* because clearly all people interested in animal-welfare have no social skills and hope all people rot in hell, I'll jump the gun and tell you all I've done my good people-deed for the week as well!)

Thanks for asking us to justify...posting a comment. Hopefully I passed your good samaritin test and I can only hope you also have the pedigree I'd desire for you to make such a post. A frontal lobotomy.

And oh, yeah. I second what all the others have said - too small. Even for a beta. (http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?cls=16&cat=1918&articleid=2340)

how can one treat animals like that?
the idea with divorced kids in mind is surely kind of interesting in a cyincal way but i don't wanna see products like that going on sale.

on tv i saw platform shoes with living fish in the transparent platforms once. it was somehwere in japan i guess.
these things are wrong.

respect life!