Dearly Departed

Let’s observe a minute of silence in this blog for two heroes who have finally perished after fighting for months. They were two brave souls who went down fighting till the end!

Track down this murderer….

I’ve just spent the last one hour in the bathroom, freshly showered, scrubbing away at a really, really gross watery grave I found my final two so-called pets floating belly-up in. Gosh, it still gives me the creeps to think of the algae-infested aquarium that naturally didn’t smell too good!

He must be found…

I grew up with a black mongrel called Blackie of which I was terrified! Blackie was more of a guard dog for the house and lived in a kennel outside. All I remember of Blackie was memories of me peeping at him then fleeing the minute he barked.

Blackie got poisoned by thiefs who tried to break into our house and for a while, we were pet-less till an aunt gave us a terribly cute but naughty puppy we called Snoopy. Snoopy was also a mongrel but a terribly cute and very naughty one. Again, for some reason, I was terrified of Snoopy and those times he managed to squeeze through the wire and run into the house, I would leap screaming onto the chair till someone removed him! Snoopy got given away after that when he got too naughty and that was the end of any attempt to have pets in my childhood!

Hunt down this animal….

Many years on, I finally decided to give pets another go. Keeping animals can’t be that hard, can it? I have friends who are so in love with their pets and I figured I was probably missing out on something! I figured keeping fish shouldn’t be too difficult. I like fish and I like watching them. I just never knew how much trouble they’ll be!

J gave me 2 fighting fish to start me off and promised me they were hardy little critters. For a while, I was thrilled and watched them almost everyday and even added on 2 more, out of my own accord! After a while, neglect took over and it wasn’t too long when they were all belly-up!

Next I tried with guppies. Anyone tried keeping these hardy, drain fish before? Can’t be too hard right? Erm no…I was actually doing quite well with them. They had started to breed, started having babies (buppies, I called them) then for various reasons, they too start turning belly-up! Oops….

My last attempt was with these two heros I caught in a Japanese game which involved catching fat little goldfish with a paper net. They were quite cute little critters, wobbling around the tank with their big tummies. That was until of course the attention span has run its course and they started having to survive in an algae-infested tank with either feast (when I remember) or famine (when I forget).

That runs to ground…

I’m a bad bad girl when it comes to pets

Am doing much better off with my adopted dog whom I sponsor! And so herewith ends my “bond” with pets of any kind! I’ll just admire them from afar, like Wuching’s goldfish, thank you very much!