For Siamese Sake, Don’t iPod the Fish!
12.17.07 - 01:34pm
In a fight against cruelty of animals the animal rights groups are stepping up in arms to battle for the well known Siamese Fighting Fish, sometimes called, “The Jewel of the Orient” due to their wide range of beautiful colors. The fish are being put into a new iPod gimmick speaker called an iPond holding just 650 milliliters of water, 15 times smaller than the 10 liter tank the fish requires to live peaceably.
“The fish in this thing does not look like it has very long to live and it can barely move,” said Animal Liberation Victoria’s Noah Mark. “Even if it does live it’s not [a] life worth living … it’s really just a torture box.”
The speaker is out in Australia and is very popular selling out at multiple stores. In the iPond is a miniature brick-shaped fish tank built into a portal speaker for your iPod. The fish is squeezed into a tiny space with the speaker small enough to fit in your pocket, alive.
Jason Gedamke an acoustics expert says the fish will also suffer from noise overload as well as the easily apparent claustrophobia. “It’s the same as putting a fish tank on a speaker,” said Gadamke
RSPCA spokesman Hugh Wirth said the tiny iPod speaker/fishtank will cause the fish to suffer from oxygen deprivation, along with a rapid temperature change which would probably kill the fish, (hopefully faster than slower). “The iPond should be banned,” said Dr. Wirth.
The iPond is currently being sold at Pets Paradise and Pet Goods Direct chains in Australia. According to a marketing manager for the stores, the torturous fish tank has been selling briskly since September.
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