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make money on pets? Anonymous
is there any money in growing dogs, or farming rabbits or aquarium fish? id like a part time job thats also fun, but is it realistic as alternative to flipping burgers?
>> Anonymous
maybe, but you'd have to factor in food, shelter, and health care, which could very well outweigh the profits you'd make breeding any type of animal (except maybe fish, but I dunno how many people are lining up to buy fish from a random dude.)
>> Anonymous
If your alternative employment would be flipping burgers, you are not suited to raising animals.
>> H
Growing dogs, rofl
>> Anonymous
>>111987

yeah since students can get any jobs they want nowadays, just pick a company and call them and they will happily give you a permanent job with great pay, just like that
>> Anonymous
FARM LIFE SEEMS TO BE THE THING FOR YOU... BUT THEM ILLEGALS YOU KNOW. NOTHING AGAINST THEM. FEW PEOPLE WANT TO DO THEIR WORK, EVEN IF THEY WERE PAID 20 BUCKS AN HOUR FOR IT BY THE FARMERS. SUCH A MESSY SITUATION.
>> Anonymous
>>111981
No. There's money to be made in puppy-mills, which farm genetically flawed dogs en masse for sale to pet stores, but unless you already have a small business loan and can afford to buy a half-dozen to a dozen purebreds, a kennel, feed, an FDA license, vaccines, etc., that's not going to happen.

There's money to be made in large-scale aquaculture if you know what you're doing (as in, you have business experience and a bio degree and know how to deal with and prevent mass fungal infections, etc.) but you'll still need to afford the massive startup costs.

If you live somewhere rural (or have a time-machine back to the 40's) where people still regularly eat rabbit you might be able to make a profit on a small breeding operation, but nowadays its unlikely and unless you can find an interested laboratory the only time pet rabbits are really in demand is around Easter, long before Summer.

Suck it up and get a fucking job.

>>111993
... and you think spending a summer as a "dog grower" will look good on a resume to those companies?
>> Anonymous
Breed dogs. Breed rabbits and sell them per pound for the meat. And I guess you could breed some rarer fish and sell them to people who want them.
>> Anonymous
>>112003
YOU'VE CONSIDERED SAID OPTIONS IN AQUACULTURE, BUNNY FARMING, AND PUPPY MILLING YOURSELF I PRESUME?
>> Anonymous
>>112010

I think he just knows what he's talking about. And hey, he managed to get his point across WITHOUT RESORTING TO CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL.

Apply for a job in a pet store and stop being such a weepy bitch.
>> Anonymous
Well, theres these worthless hippies around boulder colorado that have dogs and sit next to intersections with cardboard signs that say "need help, dog is hungry". Ring, Ring, hello, animal control? theres some bums that can't feed their dog, could you investigate plz?