Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!news.moat.net!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "soofuu" Newsgroups: fj.rec.pets Subject: Land hermit crabs sold in Japan Date: 19 Dec 2005 15:58:42 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 36 Message-ID: <1135036722.857282.256910@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.69.139.12 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1135036730 12153 127.0.0.1 (19 Dec 2005 23:58:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:58:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com; posting-host=207.69.139.12; posting-account=9Lu94AwAAACnEnqg_gLj66VAeIqr5sxZ Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.rec.pets:75 Not only pet dealers but also a toy company sells the land hermit crabs in Japan. TOMY, one of the biggest toy company in the nation sells the crabs in the capsule as though packed fresh food. However, Marukan, the Osaka based pet wholesaler sells the crabs in deli cups. (See the first link below.) Several flower shops also sell crabs. They treat them as live interiors as so cut flowers. Other variety or gift shops sell the crabs together with the glassware. The 'show cases' (that's how they call their merchandises), some are only wine glasses, others are 1' cubic glass cases. There're no room to raise, nor for the necessity goods sustaining their lives. They are obviously considered as the objects, not a subjects, but the expendables. Those lives are decoys to sell their cheap, poor made profitable merchandises. There're still couple of shops selling online even now winter time. They say, "we put heat pack in the box, so no worry." But who knows if there'd be delay or closure of traffic. They put only one heat pack that doesn't last no longer one day. Of course none of those merchant knows how to raise, what are necessary to survive. It's not their concern whether the small creatures make it in captive. That's awful. I'm wondering why Japanese are not strongly disagreeing against such cruel manner. I thought the Japanese has a sense of 'issun no mushi nimo gobu no tamashii'. Pet wholesaling company http://www.marukan.org/yadokariland/03.htm Toy product company http://www.tomy.co.jp/hermiescrab/product.htm Flower shops (What's 'Chistmas'?) http://www.inakanohanaya.jp/user/2122155/yadokari/ The cruel shipper, the shop specializing in land hermit crabs http://www.yadokaripark.com/