toronto aquarim/petshop, cruelty free, rec post
For the Torontonians with me on their friendlist that likes animals:
2006-02-09: Aquarium Rec? Cruelty free? (water plants, fish food, chem kits)
Whee, the people at toronto can be so helpful, so far I have two petshops I'm going to check out somewhere within the month. I want to start keeping fishes again, wanted to since several months back, but never started even on the planted tank parts because so many petshops I've been to are just plain awful. Sad puppies and kittens lethargic on newspapers with no toys kinda awful.
The bigger chain stores are actually kinda okay in not selling dogs or cats, and not keeping birds in cages so small they have no flight room. Most of them still have things that turn a fish person like me away though. Such as tanks of sick fishes (sometimes the dead is left there to the point of skeleton, and as one employee explains it, as a food source for its cannibal peers...), and selling painted glass fish! It's not so much painting, as injecting paint into the bodies of glassfish, unnecessary cruel, and in addition to cheap looking, the fishes are not that healthy and soon dies after purchase, see Why its cruel to dye - Practical Fishkeeping magazine.
The many species of "glass fishes" out there are already awesome in their own rights, their flesh is transparent! One of the marvels of nature indeed, why the hell do people have to inject paint into them? Often this is done aboard with underpaid workers working in poor environments too, double the suck.
...< / rant >
I totally have to check out cabbage town one of these days, soon, I've only lived here for well over a decade! Apparently there is a Riverdale Farm there too, that used to be where the old Metro Zoo was.
ETA: OMG, let me amend that to three, I found the old SPO post on the BAD petshop, Dragon City, and in it I mentioned a potentially good one I was going to check out. That was way back when in August, the goldfishes and birds store was new and the tanks and cages were still empty when I strolled in. I was going to check back later, but then my summer mini-course started and then university and I OMG forgot...
To check out:
1. The Menagerie - 549 Parliament Street
2. Big Al's on Steeles Ave. west of Yonge St. in north Toronto
3. (Chinese name) Goldfishes and birds, Dundas at Huron
2006-02-09: Aquarium Rec? Cruelty free? (water plants, fish food, chem kits)
Whee, the people at toronto can be so helpful, so far I have two petshops I'm going to check out somewhere within the month. I want to start keeping fishes again, wanted to since several months back, but never started even on the planted tank parts because so many petshops I've been to are just plain awful. Sad puppies and kittens lethargic on newspapers with no toys kinda awful.
The bigger chain stores are actually kinda okay in not selling dogs or cats, and not keeping birds in cages so small they have no flight room. Most of them still have things that turn a fish person like me away though. Such as tanks of sick fishes (sometimes the dead is left there to the point of skeleton, and as one employee explains it, as a food source for its cannibal peers...), and selling painted glass fish! It's not so much painting, as injecting paint into the bodies of glassfish, unnecessary cruel, and in addition to cheap looking, the fishes are not that healthy and soon dies after purchase, see Why its cruel to dye - Practical Fishkeeping magazine.
The many species of "glass fishes" out there are already awesome in their own rights, their flesh is transparent! One of the marvels of nature indeed, why the hell do people have to inject paint into them? Often this is done aboard with underpaid workers working in poor environments too, double the suck.
...< / rant >
I totally have to check out cabbage town one of these days, soon, I've only lived here for well over a decade! Apparently there is a Riverdale Farm there too, that used to be where the old Metro Zoo was.
ETA: OMG, let me amend that to three, I found the old SPO post on the BAD petshop, Dragon City, and in it I mentioned a potentially good one I was going to check out. That was way back when in August, the goldfishes and birds store was new and the tanks and cages were still empty when I strolled in. I was going to check back later, but then my summer mini-course started and then university and I OMG forgot...
To check out:
1. The Menagerie - 549 Parliament Street
2. Big Al's on Steeles Ave. west of Yonge St. in north Toronto
3. (Chinese name) Goldfishes and birds, Dundas at Huron