Who leaves a 4' foot fish, still alive, gasping for air out in a communal driveway? My neighbors, that's who. They fail at life in so many ways, this is but one.
And they left that fish alone. If you are going to jab hooks in the mouth of a fish, transport him in water all the way back home, just to let him asphyxiate on dry land by himself, then you suck, but at the very least, you damn well better be there for his final moments. Also, I do not like you very much. I mean, all the other stuff is awful - the hook, the pain, the transportation.
But there is something achingly painful about leaving a fish to die alone on asphalt. It made my heart sad.
And they left that fish alone. If you are going to jab hooks in the mouth of a fish, transport him in water all the way back home, just to let him asphyxiate on dry land by himself, then you suck, but at the very least, you damn well better be there for his final moments. Also, I do not like you very much. I mean, all the other stuff is awful - the hook, the pain, the transportation.
But there is something achingly painful about leaving a fish to die alone on asphalt. It made my heart sad.
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I'm guessing he had been out there awhile, his last seconds were upon him. Or her. There was not anything I could do - I would say he died 30-45 seconds after I came home.
To be honest, I am not sure what I would have done had I found him immediately after they took him out of the chest of water. It isn't illegal. And they were not going to take him back. I might have yelled at them, I don't know.
It's sad to feel helpless.
I still have nightmares about my Koi fish jumping out of the pond and landing on the patio. Thankfully, it was a rare occurrence and I never lost one. It was heart-stopping when it happened, though. Can't imagine doing it on purpose.
Fishes are definitely tougher to relate to. They live in a strange world and don't have any physical resemblance to any of us mammals and even birds. It's only been a recent human discovery that they can feel pain the same way we can and that many species are pretty intelligent.
How people see that and think they don't feel and think is beyond me.
It hurts my heart as well rinala.