Dear Herbie,
I was over at Brigids place and memories of you came flooding back. I wanted to write this to apologise for your untimely death.
I now know that I should never have offered to help my cousin clean your bowl. I didn't realise you were an athletic fish with considerable jumping prowess.
I wholeheartedly apologise for trying to dig you out of the plughole with a teaspoon. However, my cousin screaming hysterically spurred me to hasty action.
You were a brave little goldfish. I admire that you suffered the shock and trauma of the event for a full 24 hours before going to 'swim with the fishies'.
Herbie, I am truly sorry.
Yours sincerely,
Jen.
Has anything similar happened to you?
9.20 PM EDITED to add in Jazzygals unmissable comment:
Ah...poor Herbie! No such childhood memory but 2 or 3 years ago one of WiiBoy's gold fish was almost dead. I got him out and massaged him gently with my pinkie and gave him kiss of life!! Eeeew...eeew!! It worked too, for about a year and then he died! He was blind though...and lost his colour. So he was a blind albino goldfish!! xx Jazzy
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ha ha ha, sorry, not lughing really, poor old herbie, ha ha ha
I was just online putting up a new post and saw this. Aw, poor Herbie and sorry for dredging up bad memories......He is probably up in animal heaven with the rabbit, Sooty I allegedly killed.
Thanks for the laugh, my goldfish, thankfully are still thriving, so far anyway.
Oh my gosh, It's not a funny thing to happen but you wrote that letter to Herbie in such a brilliant way that is kinda *is* funny.
R.I.P. Herbie x
It's ok girls, this happened many many years ago I just get a stab of guilt every now and again. In my defense I have, since then, saved the life of a sheep and a cow :D
I will admit, I can still see myself digging away in the plughole and I do have a giggle :)
Jen
Poor Herbie! RIP lol. We used to have a hamster called Harry before Noelie was born. One day, I came back from work and noticed that the poor thing wasn't moving. In an attempt to wake him up in case he was sleeping I kicked the cage. But he was gone. We thought Marie was going to be terribly upset. But she wasn't. She was very much 'Ah well, poor Harry.' I think he was a bit suicidal anyway. He used to climb to the top of the cage and just let go and fall to the bottom lol!
Yep. Marianne took our fish for a walk once. And another time she hid some in a matchbox in her drawer... (She recounts it somewhere on our blog so she won't deny it happened!)
Ah...poor Herbie! No such childhood memory but 2 or 3 years ago one of WiiBoy's gold fish was almost dead. I got him out and massaged him gently with my pinkie and gave him kiss of life!! Eeeew...eeew!! It worked too, for about a year and then he died! He was blind though...and lost his colour. So he was a blind albino goldfish!! xx Jazzy
Poor Herbie, how traumatic. We gave up on fish after the cannibal incident. "Mummy the fish are eating each other!"
Oh no! If I had a dollar for every goldfish my siblings and I sent to an untimely death, I'd probably have enough money for lunch.
Great post!
@Foodie, well the kick to the cage would have finished him off if he was only halfway there lol. Glad Marie wasn't upset though:)
@Sandrine, fish.........walk, rofl. How old was she? must have been very young lol.
@Jazzy, am falling around laughing here at the thought of you doing resus on a goldfish, blowing AIR into a FISH woman. My husband wants to know if he was choking on a bubble??
@Ellen, eek, noooo, not cannibals. How did you explain that one??
@PattyO, I never had one of my own, I think I probably would have killed that many too! Rumour has it they are delicate creatures, if that eases your mind any :)
Jen
My Aunt thought their goldfish look sick so put a disprin into the bowl - there was a mini explosion of Mr Fishie!!!!
Their next fish die when she accidentally drop a big old 2p on its head
They haven't had much fishy luck!
Poor ol' fishy! We've never had a fish as Griffin has only fleeting interest in them. But something similar did happen to a fish I had a child, it leaped out of the tank and wasn't found until it was all dried up much later. YUCK!
I used to dread the local annual 'Family Fun' day when the kids would troop home with sickly goldfish, followed a few weeks later by the inevitable funeral. It was always my fault and I tried everything to keep them alive - even regularly changing the 'scenery' around the bowl to avoid death by boredom...but nothing worked
A moment of silence for poor beloved Herbie! I had a fighter fish who was determined to leave the confines of his watery domain. That fish must have jumped his bowl a dozen times before he finally did it when I wasn't home and made a permanant spot on the floor! LOL! IT's funny but it's not!
It's been fish genocide at our house over the years. I've become the Pol Pot of the UnderWaters, and fish have been known to commit suicide when they see me coming.
I'd guess that WiiBoy's goldfish was too scared to die after that experience XXX
Never killed a fish, but only because I have never owned one. Probably a good thing for the fish of this world, my track record with pets in my childhood was BAD!! I am sure Herbie will forgive you. Did your cousin?
Poor Herbie, what a little fighter but ultimately he succumbed in the end the poor little critter. We had a few goldfish die in similar circumstances as children - my Dad always told us sometimes he'd get up and find them after having jumped out of the tank and he would give them brandy and it would bring them back to life. I must ask him about that now...
@Sandra, a disprin? that is another choking laughing moment!!
@Lora, not pleasant. It must have been some escape!
@BlueSky, lol at changing the scenery. Poor old Herbie used to eat stones he was so bored!
@Candace, aawww. Yes, it's funny, but it's not :) A lot of goldfish seem to have a death wish!
@Jean, no way, they couldn't be afraid of your lovely bowlside manner! Lol at Jazzy directed comment!
@Marie, no I never personally owned one either. My cousin was a good bit younger and not sure if she made the connection but if she did she forgave me. My guilt didn't allow me question her at the time.
Jen
Poor Herbie, I have killed a few goldfish in my time and I just can't allow them in the house anymore. I have to look after them, clean their very smelly bowls. Might just stick with a nice puppy!
LMAO
I have visions of Herbie sitting beside St Peter looking at each new arrival, muttering,
"Nope, that's not her...nope, not her, either....Wait!...No, not her...." :P
LMAO!! Sorry but it brings back memories of giving Leighans hamster cpr as thought it was dead not realising they hibernate sometimes... I blew air into it and was doing cardiac massage with my pinky when the little fecker came to and bit me hard hehe... guess he's not a morning person either hahaha xx
I love goldfish stories :)
I had two goldfish and one killed the other by violently bashing it against the side of the fish tank. the other died of natural causes.
that's my goldfish story :) thanks for sharing yours.
@MoaM I would love to know if that really happened, did you ask? :)
@Fran, I have minded our neighbours goldfish while they went on holidays. Thankfully it went back alive, but oh wow do they STINK!
@Ro, LOLOL, but the sheep and cow I saved will be behind him saying 'no, she is a good egg', I hope!!
@Petunia, lol. We go to such lengths to keep our children happy!!
@smileyfreak, I should have known you love goldfish, you have those lovely fish swimming on your blog :)
Jen
pml poor herbie xx
I just WISH you had this on video. That would be one. amazing. vlog.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!1 nothing to add but that...thanks for the laugh!
Oh my goodness.... Im not laughing..really .... that just brought to many memories back ....Bop had a beta fish ..and I nearly killed that the 1st time I cleaned it out....
That reminds me of a couple of fish who lived happily for a short time at our place before meeting an untimely death down the loo. Average life span of fish when I was a kid was about 1 week. I hope their situation has improved since I stopped befriending them?
Thanks for visiting my blog this week. It has been great to read your comments :) I, on the other hand, have been a slack blogger who has been off in the real world instead of the cyber-world this week!
PS that sounds condescending. It isn't meant to. Just mean I am sorry I haven't returned the favour but it's because I haven't been around :)
Jen, it was great to read and laugh at this a second time around not forgetting Jazzy's unmissable comment :)
We had eight fish once. Eight. Now we have none. Does that tell you a sad little story all by itself???
Fish have feeling too
Poor fish. I killed all our pond goldfish earlier this year, but they had left eggs behind so we have easily three times the number I killed. Ah well.
My eldest lad had a fish called Thomas a few years ago. I was making a cult of tea one morning before work and noticed that Thomas was floating on top of the bowl. I poked him abut but with no joy. I then gave him a decent Christian burial, (flushed him down the loo), and when I got to work, rang my wife to give her the terrible news. Luckily no one notice the lack of Thomas in the bowl before school and herself went to the local pet shop and got a replacement. All went well till eldest lad came home from school and went to feed the fish. "What happened to Thomas" he asked. "Nothing" said mammy, "Why?". "Well, it's just that he's only half the size he used to be and a different colour" says the Lad.
Once again...thanks for the laugh...especially the "digging out of the drain hole with a teaspoon"...and Jazzy's kiss of life! HAHAHAHA
LOL that is a funny tale, although a little macabre!! Xx
Ha ha ha ha, it shouldn't be funny but it is!! I had a suicidal goldfish once. It jumped out when my mum went to clean it out... clever little thing jumped behind the cupboard as well so there was no chance of reaching him in time!! x
So glad you linked this one. And yes, I have suffered similar. Even worse was the fact the really dead fish started swimming happily in toilet bowl just as flush button hit.
I did wonder if someone witnessed and stole the incident after watching Finding Nemo!
Oh, boy, this is funny, despite being sad....Poor Herbie!
Ok, the teaspoon bit was a little upsetting to me. Just saying.
still so very funny..((()))
omg I actually really did LOL at this! : )
especially the teaspoon part. LOL
The only thing I have even close was that one year my friend asked if we wanted her sons guinea pig because they didnt want it anymore. We got it and it was acting a little down so I thought hmmm maybe some fresh air for the little guy. I sat it out on the porch in the sun, we lived right next to a highway at the time. We left to run some errands and I picked up a book at the library on how to care for a guinea pig because I knew nothing about them. Flipping through on the way home I began to panic. The things they listed to never expose one of those weak hearted little guys to? Direct sunlight and noise. We got home and sure enough there it lay dead in the cage. : (
My kids have never let me forget that one. :/
Awwwh. Poor Herbie. It happens though. More often than fish friends would like. Such sensitive little creatures. :(
My pet goldfish went down the plughole during bowl cleaning when I was a kid. I remember my dad heroically trying to intercept the flappy golden one's journey to the sewers at various drains and inspection manholes, but to no avail. At one point, he stood redundantly, net in hand as my precious pet slid out of sight, gasping, on his scaly side. Quite traumatic really. Maybe that is why, to this day, I still have fish nightmares.
Laughing all over again!
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