Fish Pedicures
March 10th, 2009. Filed under: Wednesday's Wonders.Sounds interesting, doesn’t it? How on earth can you give a fish a pedicure? Since you have to have toes in order to have a pedicure, that means no pedicures for anything living in your aquarium. Now if the owner of the fish (or any other pet) wants a fish pedicure, it can happen.
But not down here in Florida. It’s against the law. They’re worried about sanitation and any kind of animal (except a service animal) is banned in salons. This procedure apparently originated in Japan and involves putting your feet in a vat of water and allowing a bunch of little fish to nibble away at dead skin. Now doesn’t that sound as if they’re performing a service? I guess it’s just not the right kind of service.
When I was a teen, my family lived near a strip pit. For you city folks, that’s the hole that’s left in the ground when the miners get done stripping it of all the coal. It just sits there, fills up with water and becomes a small lake or maybe a really big pond. These can be very deep and thus the threat warning from my parents that we were to never go swimming in the strip pit. Obedient child that I was, I waited until some friends were visiting before climbing the fence and going swimming. It was both fun and exciting. After all, we were doing the forbidden, plus we got our toes nibbled by the little fish who joined us for a swim. At least, we thought they were little fish. I think that’s as close as I’ll ever want to get to a fish pedicure.