...eat Hermie. I mean if it were a real disaster." The kids looked horrified when Adam made this off hand remark. I reassured them that we would never eat Hermie. (We are currently working on emergency preparedness in our family. We are putting together 72 hour kits, or "Grab and Go" bags as they are also known. Just in case disaster falls upon us, we will have everything on hand if we have to leave in a hurry.)
Hermie is our family pet. I purchased Hermie this past Christmas after I had given a Beta at a white elephant party. The kids thought having a fish would be cool, so I bought one for our family too. I didn't know how much work it would be. Cleaning the bowl, finding it a babysitter when we go out of town, feeding it etc... Adam even comes home from work and makes the comment, "Is that thing still alive? I thought it would die after a month or two. I didn't know we were committing to so much when we bought the fish."
Then there is Henry who draws a family picture and includes a fish in a fish bowl next to the five of us. Then there is Caroline who sticks her hands in the water and over feeds the fish. Then there is the mom who has to clean the fish bowl every week.
Regardless, we are never going to eat Hermie. We may let it out in a river someday though.
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better get used to him. Ours lived for 2 1/2 years.
very timely post for us. cameron spent his birthday $$$ on two betas with this cool bowl with a divider in it this past week. one died within 48 hours. he got a sitter for the other one this weekend while we were out of town and the poor little "gill" didn't make it through the weekend. what are we doing wrong???
Never had to worry about the fish at our house. More than one got flushed down the toilet after being attacked and mauled by our 'fraidy cat, Orville (who was shy of humans but very brave around beta fish in their fish bowls). The family would be alerted to the attack by a horrified shriek from little Annie who,at her young age, could not stomach the massacre. It's a wonder to this day that Annie is now a Nurse who has to stomach worse things on humans. I guess that the fish massacre prepared her for her proffesion. As for food and family preparedness, I'd rather eat cardboard.
I'm laughing just thinking about our conversation about Hermie at lunch the other day.
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