Fairground fish - 20th May 2013 5:50pm
Someone is asking on the local Freegle site , for a bowl for the goldfish they have just won at the fair. Anyone know which fair?
Why oh why do the fairgrounds have to use live prizes. In the past Ive seen fish in coloured dyes, fish in bags being taken on rides, fish being left on a wall in their bag when the teenagers went home, and fish being swung along carelessly as folk get money out, eat hotdogs or move from ride to ride passing the poor thing about to mates. Even ones hanging on the stalls are subject to horrendous levels of bright lights and noise, and I hate to think what happens to the left over ones.
I suspect this fair must be on private land as I think Chester and cheshire west and Wirral have banned it on theirs.
Please may I ask that if you go to the fair, dont support sideshows that offer fish.
This is off the RSPCA website.
"Goldfish are often offered as prizes, but are easily stressed. They may suffer from shock, oxygen starvation or even die from changes in water temperature. Many fairground fish die before their new owners can get them home - or soon afterwards.
Under the Animal Welfare Act 2006, it is an offence to enter into an arrangement with a person reasonably believed to be under 16, who is not accompanied by an adult, whereby an animal is to be won as a prize.
Help stop the trade - don't support it!!
Contact your local authority or the event organiser and ask them to adopt a policy of not allowing animals to be given as prizes at any fundraising activities held in their buildings or on their land."
Why oh why do the fairgrounds have to use live prizes. In the past Ive seen fish in coloured dyes, fish in bags being taken on rides, fish being left on a wall in their bag when the teenagers went home, and fish being swung along carelessly as folk get money out, eat hotdogs or move from ride to ride passing the poor thing about to mates. Even ones hanging on the stalls are subject to horrendous levels of bright lights and noise, and I hate to think what happens to the left over ones.
I suspect this fair must be on private land as I think Chester and cheshire west and Wirral have banned it on theirs.
Please may I ask that if you go to the fair, dont support sideshows that offer fish.
This is off the RSPCA website.
"Goldfish are often offered as prizes, but are easily stressed. They may suffer from shock, oxygen starvation or even die from changes in water temperature. Many fairground fish die before their new owners can get them home - or soon afterwards.
Under the Animal Welfare Act 2006, it is an offence to enter into an arrangement with a person reasonably believed to be under 16, who is not accompanied by an adult, whereby an animal is to be won as a prize.
Help stop the trade - don't support it!!
Contact your local authority or the event organiser and ask them to adopt a policy of not allowing animals to be given as prizes at any fundraising activities held in their buildings or on their land."