A Day Of Mourning

The Tate household has had a day of mourning for Bailey's pet fish, Wayne. He hadn't been looking good for the past couple of weeks--he went from red to gray and his tail actually fell off. We kept telling Bailey that Wayne was sick and she would say "poor Wayne." Well, yesterday, he officially died. I swear he was dying off and on for about 2 weeks. He wouldn't move for quite a while and then swim around when we turned on the light in the tank. I think Bill was in a bit of denial. He cleaned his tank and put the dead Wayne back in it last night. When Wayne was still in the same spot this morning that he was last night (stuck in one of his trees), Bill decided that he was finally gone. So, we told Bailey that Wayne needed to be flushed so he could be with his family in the ocean. The little stinker told me, "but mommy, his family is in other people's tanks." I convinced her that Wayne's Gramma was still in the ocean so she decided it was okay to flush him. We went this afternoon and got a new fish. Please welcome Wayne Jr. to our house! Bailey is excited.....she said, "Wayne Jr. has a tail!" Hopefully his tail will stay intact for a while!