tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post554520747566661121..comments2023-09-22T06:56:46.508-05:00Comments on Adoro te Devote: A Tale of Two GuppiesAdorohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02853244433854822731noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-1779202827036425292009-11-30T20:22:11.055-06:002009-11-30T20:22:11.055-06:00I've known of feeder goldfish to survive in a ...I've known of feeder goldfish to survive in a small outdoor pond over the course of a Canadian winter. Of course, they weren't exactly feeder sized, and if I recall correctly, one of them got cannibalized, but...Hidden Onehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06042188431683942338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-51474502793041468702009-11-24T19:37:18.741-06:002009-11-24T19:37:18.741-06:00Jennifer ~ What a great story, and yes, you did a ...Jennifer ~ What a great story, and yes, you did a great job of keeping him alive for a month! Whenever I caught frogs and such, they died overnight. *sigh* <br /><br />I'm so glad I've had better luck with dogs! <br /><br />Re: the goldfish...wow, never knew they COULD live for that long...and without a name...tragic...Adorohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02853244433854822731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-77141090813786396942009-11-24T19:25:28.388-06:002009-11-24T19:25:28.388-06:00I had to laugh when I read this...
When I was ab...I had to laugh when I read this... <br /><br />When I was about 9 or 10, my brother and I found a lizard that we convinced mom to let us keep, and we named him Sarsaparilla, after the soda. ( I couldn't tell you why.)<br /><br />Sarsaparilla lived for about a month. I'm amazed he lived that long, because I'm sure I didn't know how to take care of a lizard... I just gave him a lot of aphids. He did seem happy with that though.<br /><br />Anyway, we buried him in the flower box inside of a little yogurt container, with all the proper ceremony.<br /><br />A couple of years later, I tried to see if I could find it, and I couldn't? I'm sure I just forgot where exactly he'd been... but reading your post, I wonder... <br /><br />Interestingly, one of my best friends won one of those little goldfish you can get at fairs (they almost always die, within a few weeks, but her dad happened to know someone who told him that that type of fish gets a certain disease or something oftentimes, which is taken care of relatively simply, but that most people don't know about... so they were able to take care of it, and the thing lived for like thirteen years! And my friend never even named him! She called him "fish". Imagine that!Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17225797161001709496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-33362446204689388172009-11-24T15:18:38.466-06:002009-11-24T15:18:38.466-06:00Warren ~ That is one tough fish! LOL!
Abbey ~ We...Warren ~ That is one tough fish! LOL!<br /><br />Abbey ~ Well, certainly what happened is the simply the fish decayed and were eaten in the regular way once buried. They aren't in heaven; animals aren't designed for eternal beatitude and were not given the dignity of man to direct themselves, with Grace, towards their final ends. For them...the final end is back to dust. Fin. For us...it is both, and the Resurrection.<br /><br />But yes, it is nice to think about what "heaven" would be like for animals...like a return to Eden. I like those romantic images, too, especially given all the pets I miss so much.Adorohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02853244433854822731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-25218922334165221902009-11-24T13:05:10.960-06:002009-11-24T13:05:10.960-06:00I'd like to think that God came and swooped u...I'd like to think that God came and swooped up Swish and Stripe. If the cat had gotten them, the napkin would have been disturbed. I think somehow they are in fish heaven where they are fed just enough, and the water is clean all of the time.<br /><br />Blessings<br />AbbeyAbbey's Roadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04031127190630487584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-78975985901910990342009-11-24T08:03:30.064-06:002009-11-24T08:03:30.064-06:00Anyone remember the Cosby show episode the goldfis...Anyone remember the Cosby show episode the goldfish dies...<br /><br />"He was a good fish... Happy and brave!".<br /><br />I keep tropical fish as a hobby, and I have made a lot of silly mistakes, and those were all as a grownup. Once I even used soap when cleaning out a fish tank. One of my fish actually survived the soap encounter. He is still alive, these many years now, and I call him Survivorfish. I thought he was the love-child of a pleco and a guppy, but apparently such a thing is biologically impossible. So I must have bought a cory-cat of some kind, that I don't remember buying.<br /><br />WWarrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04053407632823479165noreply@blogger.com