Today, I saw my new pet fish completely missing the food at the bottom of his tank and sucking up the little rocks instead. My last dog died from eating rocks. I think I'm doomed to have insanely stupid pets. FML
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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my last remaining pet, a hamster, died. Even he thinks it's better to drown in his water dish than brave the world living with me. FML
Today, my neighbor asked me to check in on his pet. When I went into his house, I couldn't find any animals. I searched all over, and finally gave up and called him. I asked him what type of pet he had. His response? "My pet rock, Stubby." That's right, I just spent some time looking for a rock. FML
Today, my pet fish died because my drunk father microwaved it. FML
Today, my girlfriend dumped me because I didn't take her pet rock seriously. FML
Today, I bought a new Siamese Fighting Fish. I was so happy with my new fish so I bought him an expensive lovely bowl, some weeds, and a toy for the bowl. I left the room to get the fish food. When I returned, the fish was gone, and the cat was sitting on the table. FML
Today, I excitedly showed my new roommate my pet fish. She then told me about how she purposely starved her last fish to see how long it would take before they started eating each other before starving to death. FML
Today, while doing some spring cleaning, I found the remains of my goldfish, which I was sure my cat ate last year. FML
Today, I found a pile of animal skeletons scattered in my backyard. It appears that last night, mother nature decided to rain so hard, that the graves of my childhood pets floated back up to the top, and covered half of my field. I now have to pick all of it up before my dog sees them. FML
Today, I spent almost two hours cleaning my fish tank, only to find out that my cat had secretly eaten all of my fish while I was cleaning the tank. FML
Today, my new dog unburied my old dog and chewed on his bones. FML
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ARSCON 15
What about a pet rock?
SubparAtBest 23
Are you sure they're stupid? Maybe they're just stoned. Maybe it seemed like a solid plan at the time and now he's just hit rock bottom.
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Comments (89)
legendwolf 8
Are you sure it's eating the rocks? It might be trying to clean the tank like that.
Sparx1_1 16
Sounds like you're feeding your fish the wrong kind of food. If he's sucking the rocks that means he's a bottom feeder and needs sinking food like shrimp pellets and algae wafers. You're not doomed to have stupid pets - you're doomed to being a stupid owner if you don't research the needs of different kinds of pets.
LyricaSilvan 30
Not necessarily. I have two comet goldfish, and I give them goldfish pellets made for their breed. Yet they still do the rock-sucking thing. Some species just do it because they want the extra nutrients, or to clean their mouths/wear down their teeth.
MitiMiki 16
It's pretty normal for many fish. I had a ciclid that would pick up a mouth full of rocks, swim to the other side of the tank, and deposit them forming a pile on one side of the tank. I would then smooth the rocks back to normal, and he would start again. By the next day, there would be a pile of rocks up one side of the tank.
KryssLB 14
Cichlids make nests out of sand (and rocks if they can move them). Leave what he does to the bottom of the tank in place and he'll soon hollow out a nice little nest or build a defensive wall. Nothing wrong with it. :)
QueenSaru 28
I had an aquarium a long time ago. It even had a lid except for the thin strip at the back where the heater and filter hooked on. SO MANY FISH SUICIDE DEATHS. It was mildly disturbing.
QueenSaru 28
Honestly if I could have figured out HOW they were jumping out of the tank, you don't think I would have done something?
tingtingmeg 12
they actually spit the rocks back out
kasai13 0
Most fish do that, don't worry they do spit the rocks back out lol
LyricaSilvan 30
You clearly don't know much about fish...it's normal for them to do that. They're just sucking the nutrients off the rocks and spitting them out.
DamnGina 3
Almost all fish do this; I believe they are eating the algae off the rocks and spitting the rocks back out.
Girlswrestle 5
Oh my god, I'm pretty sure i have retarted animals too. I told my bf that if we have kids, we can't exchange them at the hospital, we'd have to keep ours.
LyricaSilvan 30
Please learn to spell words before using them. It's entirely too easy to make fun of you for using the word "retarded" when you can't even spell it.
GhanArch 6
Maybe they just meant to explain that their pets have gone back to being strumpets? :)
LyricaSilvan 30
You're clever, 64. I like you.
panda94_fml 7
Your dog may have had a mineral deficiency hench why he/she was eating rocks. I'm sorry for your loss though. Animals are family ♡