Fish stories:

[MiddleFingerMom]

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[baldguy]

1. A fish in a bowl on a shelf isn't a pet. It's decor.

[nolabear]

3. Totally disagree.

I grew up in an environment where it was often impossible to have pets. I had a series of little betta, and I named them and talked to them and got great pleasure from the little world they inhabited.

I have a small tank in my therapy office, with just a very fancy betta and an aquatic frog in it. The people I see keep track of them, fantasize about them, whether they're happy or unhappy in there, how their health is, and we get to a lot of ways they view the world through their association to them. I'm very fond of them. I like the response when I come into the room and they get excited (yeah, I know it's a basic level reward response but I don't hold that against them). They're not my dogs or cat or birs, but they're certainly pets.

[alphafemale]

5. Betta's are pretty interactive.

More so than any other fish I've ever had. Ours, Phish, actually reacts when I come home in the afternoon. He likes to be stroked gently on the side.

[rurallib]

2. give a guy one of those singing bass on a plaque

hilarity ensues!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. take me to the river!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WC6EbRQmJ0

and check out this:
Singing Fish - Bad to the bones :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VveIve2pRBk&feature=related