A Moment of Silence

[cabinetman]

I ask for you all to lower your head and pray for my personal loss. Yesterday, Spot passed away. He was about 4 years old. I named him Spot because when we got him he was spotted...so it seemed an appropriate name.

He had been sick for 3 or 4 days, and the Vet advised me to just let him die. I found that crude and inhuman. He said that's the usual way pets like spot are treated. He also said that if I brought him in for treatment, it would be unlikely that anything could be done.

So, my wife and I are very upset at losing him. We will replace him as soon as LOML grieves and comes to grip with life without him.

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[frumper64]

You've got it. Sorry for your loss. Believe me, I know what it is like.

[Turaj]

Very sorry to hear about your loss! I know how hard it is to not be able to help.

[tommyt654]

Done,Sorry bout your loss, pets always kill me, prolly cried more than once about my mutts over the yrs and best advice is get another, preferably from a shelter

[cabinetman]

Done,Sorry bout your loss, pets always kill me, prolly cried more than once about my mutts over the yrs and best advice is get another, preferably from a shelter

No one asked, and I forgot to go into any details, but Spot wasn't a mutt. He was a beautiful fan tailed goldfish. Spot joined our lives as an ity bity feeder fish, about an inch long. He grew to about 6". His final demise was due to Dropsy.

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[gsmittle]

No one asked, and I forgot to go into any details, but Spot wasn't a mutt. He was a beautiful fan tailed goldfish. Spot joined our lives as an ity bity feeder fish, about an inch long. He grew to about 6". His final demise was due to Dropsy.

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Ya got me! I thought you were talking about one of the dogs. Did Spot get a "burial at sea?"

All the levity aside, sorry to hear about the passing of your pet.

g.

[scmhogg]

Cab,

Did you provide appropriate accomodations?

http://www.bt3central.com/showthread.php?t=28574&highlight=betta

Steve

[Russianwolf]

SAw that one coming.

We have 4 remaining feeder goldfish in a 45 gallon tank. Lost number 5 a month or so ago. He was 10 inches long and had lived in the tank for 5 years. The remaining 4 are all about 6-8 inches including Survivor.

Survivor got his name because when he was little, I did a water change and got the chlorine content too high, so he got burned. I then pulled him out before he could die and dropped him in some water from outside. It was 35 degrees so he went into shock. So I pulled him out of there and had to give him chest compressions as he had stopped breathing. I then got him in a small amount of water that was okay. Of course he got a bad case of fungus (looked like a sheep for a couple days, and I even sheared him once) from the burns that I had to treat, but 5 years later, he's still with us and deserving of his nick-name.