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On this forum's sunny side, pets come up for discussion quite a bit.
I have a tank of various types of goldfish. They're not pets for the same reason cabbages aren't. Like you would a cabbage, you feed your fish, and keep their bed clean, control harmful pests and disease. And for all your troubles, there is a payoff. The cabbage tastes pretty good. I'm guessing goldfish don't because they're the perfect size to be a McNugget, yet they've never had the honor. They don't do tricks or cute things, and you don't see goldfish in youtube videos with 30-thousand likes and climbing.
No, the only payoff with aquarium fish is their beauty the feeling of tranquility you get when you stare at them for a few minutes.
Unlike a buddy of mine who has all kinds of tropical fish, my goldfish have names. This buddy just calls his fish by their species name: the redfin butterfly, the queen anglefish, the percula clownfish. And there's always a "the" in front.
My fish and I will never have occasion, or the ability, to address each other, but just for the fact that I get to stare at them without their consent, I figured they deserved names.
I gave them descriptive names, otherwise I would probably have to keep re-naming them, and I wanted to be consistent.
Spot is white with an orange spot on his head
Adolf has a little black moustache
Liszt has long ridges along the ends of his side fins (piano fingers)
Croaker sometimes swims belly-up
Oprah Vader is a big-bellied, bug-eyed black molly (don't get upset about it, it's done)
Fanny has a very fancy tail
Brain is one of those that looks like his brain is on the outside of his his head
Pinky is, obviously, pink (and is also Brain's sidekick)
and Bubbles' eyeballs have actual bubbles attached to them
So if you haven't already exhausted the topic, what did you name your pet (or non-human companion), and why?
I will not judge you if you actually named a cabbage. But if you named a cabbage and then ate it, I might have a problem with that.
I have a tank of various types of goldfish. They're not pets for the same reason cabbages aren't. Like you would a cabbage, you feed your fish, and keep their bed clean, control harmful pests and disease. And for all your troubles, there is a payoff. The cabbage tastes pretty good. I'm guessing goldfish don't because they're the perfect size to be a McNugget, yet they've never had the honor. They don't do tricks or cute things, and you don't see goldfish in youtube videos with 30-thousand likes and climbing.
No, the only payoff with aquarium fish is their beauty the feeling of tranquility you get when you stare at them for a few minutes.
Unlike a buddy of mine who has all kinds of tropical fish, my goldfish have names. This buddy just calls his fish by their species name: the redfin butterfly, the queen anglefish, the percula clownfish. And there's always a "the" in front.
My fish and I will never have occasion, or the ability, to address each other, but just for the fact that I get to stare at them without their consent, I figured they deserved names.
I gave them descriptive names, otherwise I would probably have to keep re-naming them, and I wanted to be consistent.
Spot is white with an orange spot on his head
Adolf has a little black moustache
Liszt has long ridges along the ends of his side fins (piano fingers)
Croaker sometimes swims belly-up
Oprah Vader is a big-bellied, bug-eyed black molly (don't get upset about it, it's done)
Fanny has a very fancy tail
Brain is one of those that looks like his brain is on the outside of his his head
Pinky is, obviously, pink (and is also Brain's sidekick)
and Bubbles' eyeballs have actual bubbles attached to them
So if you haven't already exhausted the topic, what did you name your pet (or non-human companion), and why?
I will not judge you if you actually named a cabbage. But if you named a cabbage and then ate it, I might have a problem with that.
