"Eric Schreiber" eric at ericschreiber dot com wrote in message
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george wrote:

If the fish is floating on it's side and no remedies are helping it,
it is certainly not going to last very long out of water.

Perhaps, perhaps not. That's irrelevant. If the goal is to minimize the
suffering of the animal, then the best solution is to kill it
immediately, not to let it die relatively slowly in open air.


Excuse me for saying so, but it is a fish. How much do you think it suffers?
If it is a goldfish, it's brain pan is smaller than a pea. The fact is, people
tend to anthropomorphize their pets, be it a goldfish or a St. Benard. Do you
also euthanize a dying piece of hard coral? Or a snail? If it makes you feel
any better, you can always deliver "last rights" after it expires.