Thursday, December 12, 2013

God Needed a Goldfish

We have been expecting his death for about a year, and yet I was surprised to come home today and find Norman had finally been called home.
He is pictured above from December 2005. Take note of the pinkish area behind his gills. He got himself stuck in a little castle and managed to descale himself while trying to get free of the little castle. 

Susan and I came home and discovered him stuck and had to kind of force him through the hole in the castle.

He was never quite the same after that. He developed a palsy in his tail and he eventually went blind. 

Susan gave me Norman when we first started dating and he was a tiny little thang. He was about 13 years old. 
I know he looks dead here but that's just him trying to make us look like bad fish owners. This picture was taken back in February.

Rest in Peace, Norman!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

But since Norman appeared dead on so many other occasions, how is it you were able to ascertain that he was in fact dead and not just being demonstrative? Did you obtain a writ of morte from a veterinarian? If not, how did you do it. Some swamis allow themselves to be buried alive for days but they're not really dead. I can only hope you didn't cast Norman out of his tank before he'd truly found another home.