Tuesday, May 16, 2006
I've always said if you want a pet that's hard to kill you should get a Beta, a.k.a. a Japanese Fighting Fish. I swear those fish can go weeks without food and live for months in a dirty, smelly fish bowl and they'll never complain. They require no time or attention and offer free entertainment that the kids love--ever try putting a mirror next to a Beta's fish tank? Anyway, that's what I thought until we had Denver. About a month ago Denver must have decided that Elmo, that's our fish, must be starved to death and feeling a bit chapped because he dumped about a month's worth of fish food, as well as half a bottle of baby lotion into the fish's bowl. We somehow managed to save the poor thing from that very unnatural disaster and thought we had explained very clearly to Denver that Elmo only needs a small pinch of food. But yesterday Denver was once again concerned with Elmo's eating habits and determined he must be in desperate need of nourishment, because he dumped another pile of food into the tank. Hunter, upon discovering the very sunken and stiff fish along with a small mountain of food on the bottom of the fish bowl, concluded that Elmo must have thought it was breakfast, lunch and dinner time and over did himself in the eating department. And sure enough, the fish was dead. So now I'm afraid I've got to take back what I said about pets that are hard to kill and suggest that if you have a kid like Denver, maybe it's best not to have a pet at all because they will undoubtedly find a way to kill it, even if it's a hard kind of pet to knock off.
posted by Shana # 4:35 PM 
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