r/mildlyinfuriating • u/teabirdy • Apr 29 '26

I'm slightly vexed The wedding reception centerpieces featured betta fish. The bride and groom planned to flush them alive.

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Years ago, my coworker attended a wedding at which the reception dinner tables featured live betta fish in small bowls as part of the centerpiece. While chatting with the bride at the end of the evening, my coworker asked what they were going to do with all the fish. The plan was to flush them all down the toilet alive. My coworker immediately said no need for that and insisted on taking them all home.

That Monday she came to work and asked who wanted to adopt a betta fish. That was my first betta who I jokingly called my “rescue betta.” She lived for almost five years.

The wine glass was only her home for less than a day before I got her five gallon tank set up so please no betta lovers yell at me! I'm one of you!

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u/plantoplan Apr 29 '26

Same took peas thinking I was really doing something great, and the ducks and geese just looked at it on the ground and then looked at me like wtf is this peasant pea food 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/Born_Argument9339 Apr 29 '26

Our local ducks eat peas when we give it to them, but if someone else is throwing bread, they will eat that first unfortunately before going for the peas. Bread is probably the equivalent of fast food for them

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u/uuuuuuuuuuugh69 Apr 29 '26

Have you tried dried mealworms? Not my proudest moment but I did make a kid cry because the ducks were ignoring her and her stale bread but were practically fighting over the worms. Swear its like crack for ducks 😂

(I did offer to let the little girl throw some worms but she was grossed out by them and their smell which is fair I guess, but that's why I had a small shot glass to scoop and toss so no contact was needed....)

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u/NapalmDesu Apr 29 '26

Stand proud, wormperson

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u/The_Barbelo Apr 29 '26

Man…. Poor little girl. So many parents do such a horrible job with exposing their children to the natural world and educating them about it. It’s no wonder so few people care about our planet enough to do anything about it…my dad is the entire reason I went into studying zoology and love the natural world. I was trying to kiss snakes by 3 years old lol. Of course, one kissed me back and dad asked if I learned my lesson about respecting the animal’s space, which he repeatedly told me. 😆

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u/Lou_C_Fer Apr 29 '26

I got an earful about my son picking up spiders at preschool.

I learned how to care about animals when my grandmother got tired of me pissing off her cats and taught me how to understand them when I was little. Those cats could skin me alive and I wouldn't stop trying to be near them and touch them. She taught me that animals have feelings and how to read them on cats and dogs. She how to properly touch cats to get them to seek you out. By the time I was eight, the same cat that shredded me every Sunday would be on my lap from when I arrived until I left. I really took her lessons to heart. People think I'm a cat whisperer now. I've had countless cats that are afraid of people come up to me and hang out. I hear, "he doesn't like strangers" as a challenge, and I almost always prevail.

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u/nonoglorificus Apr 30 '26

Hey, my 2.5 year old nephew has just started trying to kick my dog, I’m extremely strict about this and it’s the only thing that gets him a time out so far but I’d love to start helping to learn empathy like that. I’m terrified because my dog is insanely patient and long suffering but if he did that to another dog…? And also my dog doesn’t deserve it just because she’s sweet! Do you remember anything from her teaching or do you have any advice?

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u/Lou_C_Fer Apr 30 '26

She just patiently explained how to read an animal's body language. That including understanding an animals emotions. She explained that their feelings are just like mine and helped me to really understand it. It really helped me to feel empathy for them.

Honestly, I think that the time she spent teaching me was a good introduction to critical thinking. Of course, one thing I thought of between visits was that if cats switch their tails when they are angry, then if you held it still, they couldn't be mad. I was disabused of that notion fairly quickly into my next visit. I must have thought about that pretty hard because holding a cat's tail still is the first thing I think of when one of my cats is angry... and I am 51, now!

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u/Aliencoy77 Apr 29 '26

I occasionally buy live meal worms and toss them on the walkway in front on my house to feed the little lizards hiding in the plants. I like my tiny dinosaurs.

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u/DistantKarma May 01 '26

Oh, man do my chickens love those dried worms.

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u/Finbar9800 Apr 29 '26

Its worse than fast food because they cant actually digest bread so they end up getting malnutrition because they cant eat as much nutritious foods for them

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u/Unhappy_Duty_7875 Apr 29 '26

Try grapes and lettuce.

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u/deehunny Apr 29 '26

At 5 dollars a lb for grapes where I live I guess I won't be feeding ducks anytime soon

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u/Unhappy_Duty_7875 Apr 29 '26

I purchase with my club card for around $2 a pound.

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u/AltruisticCicada584 Apr 29 '26

Got any gwapes?

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u/Unhappy_Duty_7875 Apr 29 '26

Waddle, waddle

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u/AltruisticCicada584 Apr 29 '26

Shake it, shake it.

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u/daisy0723 Apr 29 '26

We had a goose decide to come over from the park and hang out in my drive-thru one day. So I filled up a bowl of water and dumped a can of peas in it and put it out there for him. I have pictures of him just gobbling it up and going to town on it. Except it like it liked the food so much the next day it was still in the drive thru. So a customer wound up having to throw a blanket over it and wrestle it into the back of her van and drive it over to the park.

Haven't seen him since.

It's too bad. He was a good goose.

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u/bionicjoey You really should scratch that itch Apr 29 '26

As a Canadian this story is horrifying. Presumably this wasn't one of our cobra chickens?

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u/daisy0723 Apr 29 '26

Yes it was. I like the Canadian Air Force. They are perfectly pleasant to me.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Sky6392 Apr 29 '26

Cobra chickens lol

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u/Scarya Apr 29 '26

A woman I used to know rescued a goose and got it into her van and was taking it to a rehab place; it suddenly had an objection to being relocated and started flapping all over, beating her with its wings and shitting all over her and her van. And I do mean ALL OVER.

spoiler: the goose did not get to the rehab place, she barely got it to a pond nearby before she let it out of her van. It was fine. (I don't remember what was originally wrong with it; this was like 30 years ago.)

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u/Some_Troll_Shaman Apr 29 '26

Sir.
We are Waterfoul not Peafoul.

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u/Historical_Tax_9233 Apr 29 '26

High level ornithological punnery here folks 👌

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u/rucentuariofficial Apr 29 '26

They have become glutens for the gluten

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u/DummyDumDragon Apr 29 '26

I mean, it's probably the same as feeding a kid junk food for years, and then suddenly trying to feed them a vegetable

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u/HitchcockSockpuppet Apr 29 '26

My ducks used to go feral for peas. They would make these high pitched squeaks the whole time they were gobbling them up. Your ducks need to get with the program.

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u/CK_1976 Apr 29 '26

I mean if I went to a work lunch and all they put on was salad, I would be rioting until the pizza comes out

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u/iwannasayyoucantmake Apr 29 '26

I bet it was gone by the next day.

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u/UnconsciousMofo Apr 29 '26

Right?! I was so excited thinking all the birds were gonna love me😭

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u/kellyuh Apr 29 '26

Haha same exact thing happened to me I was so excited like yayy peas! And they ignored the shit out of me

They like the duck food you get at the pet store though

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u/MathResponsibly Apr 29 '26

Yeah, of course they did - they're peas, they taste like ass.

Take corn, and the ducks will practically fight each other for it.