This post does not have anything to do with my healthy journey - but it is related to my life. Isabel lost her first pet today, our 2 1/2 year old fish Biggy. Biggy was a gift from our oldest daughter Kayla to our youngest daughter Isabel. He received his name because he had huge bulging eyes. For a fish, he had a lot of personality. Biggy would beg for food when you walked by him, suck up and spit out the rocks on the bottom of his bowl and loved to show off when he knew you were watching. Over the last few months we had a few scares. He kept getting stuck in the decorative castle. He would lay on the bottom not moving, looking lethargic, Then you'd feed him or clean the tank and he'd come back to life.
Isabel is hart broken. We all had tears in our eyes at her reaction this morning. After 2 years I think we are past the flushing option, so we will have to plan a proper burial this evening. So hard to see your child in so much pain. Unfortunately there is no way around it when you have pets and we have 3 more, 2 cats and 1 dog that are all around the same age. I hope that this experience will help her deal with future loss.
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