Pets for the Pets

Ok, so this one requires a tad of a back story. (Yeah I know, you’re saying when her entries don’t have a back story.) Anyway, here we go: Last year Crazy-Cat-Cousin’s brother-in-law bought his Russian Blue a goldfish and left it in an accessible place for the cat to ‘go fishing’ and possibly get a live meal. Well Crazy-Cat-Cousin thought this cruel and horrid and just disgusting. I thought it clever and hysterical and decided that we’d have to try this with our two cats. (I used to have a red-ear slider turtle so was used to watching it eat live food.)

So last summer when our church had its annual festival, I went and attempted to win some fishies and went home with a prize for Pooka and Cro`i. Uh yeah, I won fish with the full intention of having ‘Snack’ and ‘Lunch’ be chomped on by my babies. Well I got home, and put them in a bowl and placed the bowl on the kitchen floor. Pooka and Cro`i was in awe of these two ‘things’ that were swimming around. Their little heads rotated like crazy as they tracked the fish. Pooka made a timid strike with his paw, dipping it in the bowl and with eyes dilated jumped back like he was shocked. Next Cro`I stuck her nose in, and jumped back because ‘no way in hell’ was she going to be ‘wet and icky’. And there it was confirmed. Pooka and Cro`i enjoyed their meals from the can.

Well, its festival time once again for the church, and mom asked me if I was going to win Pooka and Cro`i their ‘lunch’ and ‘Snack’ fish again. So last night I went down, and instead of winning 2 fishies….wound up with 4 fishies!!! Once again, I trekked these cute little guys home, three are orange…one is silver. And they were placed in the bowl. Well Pooka and Cro`i are fascinated with them. Have not passed a paw anywhere near to the water to investigate. Nope…my little angels now have PETS. My pets have their own PETS! How twisted is this? What ever happened to survival of the fittest? Pooka and Cro`i could barely keep their eyes open this morning because they watched the fish all night. And what you ask are their fishies names? Why, Snack, Lunch, Captain Jack, and Will Turner of course!