(October 24, 2019 at 11:43 am)Athene Wrote:(October 24, 2019 at 7:53 am)AtlasS33 Wrote: The sea is full of creatures with a better personality and depth than fish, an Octopus or a sea Turtle would make life pretty different !
Fish on the other hand are...boring buggers with lots of identical copies.
Meh...the animal kingdom as a whole is full of creatures that are "cooler" than conventional house pets.
Most of them aren't exactly easy to procure nor are they necessarily appropriate for domestication, though.
Unless one is able to provide the space/freedom of movement that an octopus requires to thrive, keeping them as pets is pretty selfish, IMO...Cruel, actually.
Octopuses (other the smallest mini-species, perhaps) become bored and very distressed in fish tanks.
This tank's already not big enough for the octopus as is. And it eventually will reach up to 3 feet in length---if it doesn't kill itself trying to escape.
I totally agree that there is something different about how an octopus perceives emotions and especially boredom; they are very smart. That spoiled girl don't deserve it as a pet; the poor thing is locked in a very small tank.
But I found this video and it kept me in awe:
more like an alien life of some sorts
