Damn, I almost killed Brute van Mansteak today--it was tragic.
I got him a new fishbowl the other day that's supported on these curly iron legs, so it's kind of modern-looking and stylish. Anyway, the thing only holds around a gallon of water--though he's had smaller, this new bowl is consequently one and a half gallons less than his old aquarium. But all goes fine, and today I'm snuggled up on the couch with my Anatomy notes studying when I happen to look up and see Brute in a dreadful state--the poor guy is swimming practically upside down in a jerky, irratic fashion.
I of course get alarmed--I've had this damn goldfish for almost three years and he's amazing in ways goldfish shouldn't even be amazing. So I immediately clean his bowl (which I'd done a week prior) and feed him and stare at him for a half an hour while trying to determine if I'd have to break down and flush him. Because that would be as gruesome as it would heartbreaking.
But thankfully over the course of twenty or so minutes he starts to swim rightside up again, and his fins puff back up like normal. I breathed a sigh of relief. I can't believe I almost suffocated my 2+ year old goldfish that I bought at Meijer for $0.79 and dropped on the floor as soon as the pet lady put him in one of those plastic bag-things. We've got history, Brute and I. We understand each other.
So in summary, another successful night on Emergency Vets: Kalamazoo! I'll keep you posted in case he slips back into critical condition--I can't keep his fanbase out of the loop.
9 comments:
kindly inform Dr. Shruts if any emergency medical conditon arises. By the way, does his insurance cover mouth to fish mouth?
And prescriptions too!
ya he'd better KNOW who to contact for that!
oops...that was me :)
OMG....I just found out that if a woman gets pregnant, and the embryo goes beyond AT LEAST the blastocyst stage then she (astoundingly) retains some of the embryonic stem cells from that embryo that stay with her for her entire life!!!!! And HELP her!!!!! WOA! One lady had like 5 kids, and she had a hepatic disease or something...and her liver was FULL of these embryonic cells that were trying to regenerate the liver! :O
Wow... that's really awesome. What class did you learn that in?
Uugh! Grossology 101, probably. It's a prerequisite for Make Michael Jordan Die 212.
Hey, Grossology was a great class. I learned a lot of valuable material to be used in everyday life in that one. :-P
sorry to dissapoint...it was pathology, but was also in my advanced slashdotology course. :)
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