Man's Other Best Friends

G'day to you. Wonderful to see you! I sure hope it is warmer where you are than the -32C we woke up to this AM. Ready for a coffee and a virtual muffin? Me too! So...how much money would you spend on a sick pet? On a fish scale of one to ten?

People's love for their pets reached a new high in December when a British man paid a veterinarian the equivalent of $500 to perform delicate surgery on a sick office goldfish (typical pet store "replacement" price: $1 to $5). 

Vet Faye Bethell of North Walsham, England, told the Eastern Daily Press in December that there was "nothing special" about the fish, but that the customer "just liked it a lot." In fact, the goldfish likely did not even have a pet name -- as Bethell in an interview spoke intimately of another patient by name (Cadbury, the skunk). 

(Bethell's procedure involved removing the patient from the bowl, flooding its gills with anesthetic-fortified water, and using a tiny scalpel to remove lumps that were causing it constipation, with the surgery guided by a miniature heart-rate monitor.) 

Source: [Eastern Daily Press (Norwich, England), 1-1-2015] 

Hey, if it makes the fish owner happy, what the heck, right?

See ya, eh!

Bob