Helping
FishOrphans to help your fish
Moving
house to, or from, a new property?
Young
children using the garden?
Thinking
of filling in the pond?
If any of the above may
apply please read this small advice panel below.
FishOrphans was established
on a charitable and voluntary basis to assist with the rehoming of unwanted fishes and
aquaria, primarily to hospital and retirement home sites , so that people who
had to reluctantly stop fishkeeping had a guaranteed home for their charges to
be safely housed for the rest of their natural lives – and the service is
free.
Initially, it was never designed to assist commercial enterprises or
property speculators or developers to fill in ponds for commercial gain, and to a
minor extent this principle must apply to people buying and selling houses and
therefore self-imposing “ homelessness” on their pool fishes or pets.
We
have a severe problem of lack of resources caused by rehoming pond fishes due
partly to people wishing to sell their properties and the prospective buyer
saying no to the pond, and partly by new owners buying a property containing a
pond they consider a “risk” to their charges and contacting us without also
investigating the many alternative ways of securing the pond safely. - and while we
definitely do not want to restrict our service to genuine and needy cases we
would like to to point out the following:
1.
Having young children is no reason for filling in ponds and
getting rid of their occupants. Plastic and other types of walk-on grids that go over the pond are
easily purchased online or in most aquatic centres and these make the pond completely safe
for adults and children
and protect the fishes against herons.
2.
All
conservationists agree that people should be adding ponds to their gardens and
not removing them.
ref:( http://www.bbc.co.uk/springwatch
)
3.
The law itself has
recently changed to ensure that the pond owners now have a legal duty of care in
regard to the maintenance of their pets including fishes. ( The old law did not
include fishes)
.
4.
It is TOTALLY illegal to release fishes into the wild – it
is also a good way to murder the fishes, which are tame and easily snapped up by
predators
.The fine for "dumping" into the wild environment is
(hugely) prohibitive!
That’s the info, now here is the good news. If you still need to rehome
your fishes we can probably help in most, but not all, cases – and remember we
are the only national ( with volunteer rehomers in most areas
of the United Kingdom) approved scheme that guarantees not to sell or
ship pets to unchecked rehomers.
If you still need us we are here.
FishOrphans.
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