My stupid goldfish

Grumpy - just been cleaned out

I have a goldfish.  We have had it for around 10 years - the usual scenario - daughter wanted a pet, so we thought a goldfish would be ideal.  After about a day of cooing daughter lost interest.  You would have thought we would have learned from the rabid hamster incident, but thats another story!

So obviously I took over the responsibility of feeding and cleaning out the damn goldfish.  Now I know it sounds crazy but I genuinely believe the goldfish to moody!  What do I mean by that?  Well, when I have forgotten to feed it, it splashes the water to get my attention when I am in the room.  And when I clean it out - which can sometimes not be until the tank is so green you can't see the fish - it really gets a moody on!  I think it likes living is stagnant, green water as the pump is so clogged up with fish poop it has stopped working!

When I am ironing it sits with its nose right up against the glass and stays that way until I have finished - which isn't very long as I only iron when I need something ironed, I am not one for standing around doing hours and hours of the stuff.

Over the years we have tried giving it a friend, but unfortunately each one has been bullied to death or just blatantly murdered by my stupid goldfish.  I am convinced it is not actually a goldfish but some alien being using its body for cover.

It is blind in one eye - although I am not entirely sure - its quite hard to test this - but it has one orange eye and one black eye - that's all the evidence I have.  It is way too big for its tank (around 5 inches), but I am afraid if I got a bigger tank it would grow some more and that would be scary!  It isn't gold either - more pink!

But for all its ugliness and its moodiness I do have a soft spot for it and will miss it if it ever decides to go to fish heaven.

It is a constant reminder that we none of us are perfect and we can only strive to take care of ourselves, respect each other and accept people warts and all!