a little bit of good news for me
another guy was due to come and collect the oscars this weekend. it was emotional (and wet!!!) to catch them, stick them in the container and start saying goodbye again. then the bloke turned and said, come on lets go and take you to your new oscar pal.
of course this guy hadnt mentioned he had another oscar at home and planned on sticking these pair in with it. i looked at my fella, my fella looked at me and turned to the bloke to confirm 'you are going to put these with another oscar
'
'erm, yes' replied the bloke
'then sorry you cant take them' my fella said
of course the guy protested, kicked up a right fuss 'but the other is only a baby it wont harm them'
OH set him straight about the probably, inevitable death that would happen to the little guy and we hastily re-caught our pair and returned them to the tank
the guy stomped off (after trying to bribe us with more money for them)
so the oscars are still with us, and they will be staying. we had a talk last night and will sort it somehow. who needs living space? ok the 'finding' time for tank cleaning and so forth will have to be sorted asap but we're gonna figure it out one step at a time.
thats the second time we've been mucked around, the second time in a week the poor oscars have been caught, then thrown back in the tank, so no, no more stress for them it aint fair.
im so happy though, really. my babes can stay.
for now