Dennis III
Dennis update. Patti went to the pet store this morning while Emily was at pre-school. She got another goldfish that looks like Dennis II and Dennis I. We had a close call last night when Emily heard the water in the tank and wanted to see it, but she was upstairs right before bed so we enforced the ?go-to-bed-right-now-you-little-brat? rule. She didn?t bother to look this morning, and even if she did, I would have said that Dennis was taking a walk to get some exercise and she would have believed me because she is not even three and she believes whatever I say to her, one of the great things about having a little kid.
When Patti was talking to the goldfish expert at the Pet Rodeo, he said that the larger goldfish was probably pecking at the smaller one because goldfish, and this is a little hard to believe, can sense when another goldfish is weaker and they pick on it. Now, that sounds like something that happens in the harsh and violent world of, I don?t know, wolves or sharks or something, maybe piranha if you are sticking to small fish, but goldfish. Anyway, this ?expert? said that Dennis II probably let himself die, JUST LIKE I SAID yesterday. Sally drove Dennis so nutty that death was better than living with her, a common problem when dealing with the female side of a species.
So I?ll post in another couple of weeks to introduce Dennis IV.