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Article: Billions sleep with the fishes every day, by God
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 14, 2006
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OPENING SHOT
Cats kill fish. It's in their nature. For food, sometimes, or just
for sport, as was the case this week when our younger cat, Gizmo,
nudged a fish bowl containing a black tetra just given to our younger
son, Kent, from its spot in the center of his dresser, off the edge
and onto the floor. Nobody else was around.
Kent later came upon the scene -- overturned bowl, a spray of
gravel, the very dead fish -- and let out a howl that brought us all
on the run.
The culprit had fled. I grabbed toilet tissue and performed fish
disposal duty. My wife uttered some poetic words over the lifeless
form before it was flushed away.
"At least we didn't have it long enough to form an ...