People spending ludicrous amounts of money on Bettas, to watch them kill each other

Vorpy

This bugs me.

You see, there are a group of HxC nerds I know that find "Bettabetting" very interesting. Where they buy a fish, and the other guy buys a fish, and they will make "death records" of said betta. One category is for damage (aka, the amount of fins ripped off the other fish), kills (how many bettas the owner's fish has killed) and survivals (how many times a fish has survived without dying). The winner out of a betta duel or a beta free for all wins all the money and objects betted on the bettafight.They will have contests with these fish and watch them kill each other, and this makes me grimace every time I see them walking into my pet store to buy more "piece-mealers".

I have reported them to the pet store, but the owner tells me "What they do with their fish after they purchase them is none of our business, and the animal control center won't respond to these kinds of calls due to the fact that they are just fish." Yes, having customers purchase our fish is important to the company and to assure that we can order more. Just knowing that they are going off to be put into a blank tank to rip each other to shreds, is kind of sick.

Either way these sick fucks spend around 75 dollars a month at this store buying Bettas.

Gelzo

"and survivals (how many times a fish has survived without dying). "

As opposed to surviving while dying?

But yeah, that's fucked.

Vorpy

Well the fish have 5 minutes to fight. Once they are taken out of the tank and then put in their little bowl, if they don't die then it counts as a "survive". They used to do this in my school all of the time, and it pissed me off because no matter what I did against it it would lead to me going to jail for stupid reasons, like stealing fish, or breaking an aquarium or harassing them. I hate not having legal help at my side.

Counterclock

: \

that's messed up.

Schitzo

I remember my photo class having a tank of bettas.

One killed another via only leaving his glooping face. It kept glooping for 30 minutes.

InsanityAddict

The owner tells you the animal control center won't respond. Something tells me he doesn't want you to even try to call. Have someone else call the animal control center for your own job security, and if that doesn't work, contact local media outlets. There's been artificial controversy over stuff far less deserving, so it has a good chance of working.