Can Fish Feel Pain?

Fish look gorgeous in the water, swimming gracefully without a care in the world. When they are taken out of water however, they squirm for seconds and then they stop. We know that they squirm because they are deprived of oxygen which water provides for them. We also know that they stop squirming and eventually die because of the lack of that Oxygen. However, no one really wonders if they feel pain.

Fishermen and even folks who fish for sport believe that any fish’s brain  is too tiny and more so, it is devoid of nerves that render them capable of sensations such as pain. Unlike animals like mice and mammals, fish were believed to be “cold”, thus unfeeling.

According to a new research, fish can apparently feel pain. In what ways can they feel pain?  When the hook from a fishing line plunges their mouth and pierces their guts, they feel pain. When a Sushi chef grips a fish’s tail and pulls it out of water, and cuts off its head, they feel pain too, no matter how momentary it is.

Apparently, fish do have nerve endings that tell them to recognize pain. The difference between fish and other animals is their brain’s ability to react. When fish feel pain, they can’t do much. They do not have voices to squeal or scream, nor do they have paws to violently lash out at the oppressor. Only fishing enthusiasts insist that fish do not feel pain, just like deer hunters continuously insist that deer and other mammals cannot hurt when hunted.

Purina Store: Specialist in Horse Nutrition and Research on Equine Diet

Human nutrition has received lot of attention and extensive studies have been conducted throughout the last 3 – 4 decades. However, very few people are actually interested in or involved in animal nutrition. Considering how important it is to properly feed your pets or farm animals with the right quantity and quality of diet. It has become essential to know about companies or organizations which are specifically involved in doing research on animal diet and nutrition.

There are many different companies that are involved in manufacturing livestock food. But not all of them create equal kind of live stock feed when it comes to quality. Simply feeding the animals is completely different from feeding them a balanced, healthy and nutritious diet. Consider the example of human beings who consume so many items as food including the very unhealthy junk and fast foods. People who consume a well balanced and nutritious diet have a better state of health and fitness and therefore longevity than the people who consume unhealthy foods. So that gives a fair idea regarding the importance of providing a healthy and nutritious diet to animals as well. Animals, especially the horses are known to live much longer when regularly fed a healthy feed.

Purina store is a one stop shop where you can leave all your worries aside regarding the quality and nutrition value of your pet equine’s food.  Backed by years of research and development in the field of horse nutrition there could be no other option for your equines dietary needs than Purina mills feed.

Neighborhood dog walker

Guest post written by Sandy Stein

Every afternoon at 3 p.m. I walk my toy poodle Marcy around our housing development. It’s something that we’ve done for years and a lot of the neighborhood dogs whose owners are at work during the day would come and walk by us or follow us along the fences in their yards.

I don’t know how I didn’t think of it before, but one day about six months ago I decided that I was going to start a dog-walking business. Plenty of my neighbors lined up and I got to spend some quality time with some bored dogs while making a little cash on the side.

I assumed that walking about five dogs at a time would be really noisy. However, it was as loud as I thought even though they all barked and made noises. This made me think that I may have a hearing problem so I looked up information about miricle ear and got a hearing aid.

Then I started really hearing all the barks and noises I had been fully missing out on.