A sad day in Bunkersville. Our beloved Norbert has passed.
We rescued Norbert from the Tri-State Fair one month short of 5 years ago, and provided him an easy, pampered life.
In return, we were greeted every day with a shiny, golden smile from him.
Mrs. B. enjoyed talking to him, and the small grandkids liked watching him rearrange the rocks at the bottom of his house.
I liked feeding him flies, and other small bugs, and watching him enjoy them. I never felt like he cared much for me though.
Seems like every time I took him out of the water to pet him, he went all epileptic, and acted the fool.
We will miss him. He's been part of our daily lives for nearly 5 years, and our routine has a gap in it now.
It's a sad day indeed........
archie bunker wrote:
We rescued Norbert from the Tri-State Fair one month short of 5 years ago, and provided him an easy, pampered life.
In return, we were greeted every day with a shiny, golden smile from him.
Mrs. B. enjoyed talking to him, and the small grandkids liked watching him rearrange the rocks at the bottom of his house.
I liked feeding him flies, and other small bugs, and watching him enjoy them. I never felt like he cared much for me though.
Seems like every time I took him out of the water to pet him, he went all epileptic, and acted the fool.
We will miss him. He's been part of our daily lives for nearly 5 years, and our routine has a gap in it now.
It's a sad day indeed........
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I've exhausted my speculation as to what kind of being Norbert was.
Mikeyavelli wrote:
I've exhausted my speculation as to what kind of being Norbert was.
Mike, he was a simple, humble goldfish who never caused any harm to anyone, or anything.
archie bunker wrote:
We rescued Norbert from the Tri-State Fair one month short of 5 years ago, and provided him an easy, pampered life.
In return, we were greeted every day with a shiny, golden smile from him.
Mrs. B. enjoyed talking to him, and the small grandkids liked watching him rearrange the rocks at the bottom of his house.
I liked feeding him flies, and other small bugs, and watching him enjoy them. I never felt like he cared much for me though.
Seems like every time I took him out of the water to pet him, he went all epileptic, and acted the fool.
We will miss him. He's been part of our daily lives for nearly 5 years, and our routine has a gap in it now.
It's a sad day indeed........
We rescued Norbert from the Tri-State Fair one mon... (
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Sorry. I thought it might be a dog. Now I think frog or fish.
archie bunker wrote:
Mike, he was a simple, humble goldfish who never caused any harm to anyone, or anything.
...I'm switching to pizza tonight. We'll have the salmon tomorrow.
I just don't understand why Norbert didn't like you. You have all the qualities that a goldfish would love. Maybe Norbert didn't think you were humble enough.😔
archie bunker wrote:
We rescued Norbert from the Tri-State Fair one month short of 5 years ago, and provided him an easy, pampered life.
In return, we were greeted every day with a shiny, golden smile from him.
Mrs. B. enjoyed talking to him, and the small grandkids liked watching him rearrange the rocks at the bottom of his house.
I liked feeding him flies, and other small bugs, and watching him enjoy them. I never felt like he cared much for me though.
Seems like every time I took him out of the water to pet him, he went all epileptic, and acted the fool.
We will miss him. He's been part of our daily lives for nearly 5 years, and our routine has a gap in it now.
It's a sad day indeed........
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Arch, after an appropriate time of mourning Norbert's passing, get a turtle. They live forever
BTW, I'll be sending you those beer coasters I promised a few days ago.
If you have a garden, a turtle will eat it.
Tug484 wrote:
If you have a garden, a turtle will eat it.
It could be kept in a proper terrarium of a reasonable size to survive.
slatten49 wrote:
It could be kept in a proper terrarium of a reasonable size to survive.
My sister lives in Phoenix and she has an outside turtle. He manages to tear all the barriers down and eats everything she plants. He is a well taken care of turtle. She even has a lease to take him for walks.
Tug484 wrote:
My sister lives in Phoenix and she has an outside turtle. He manages to tear all the barriers down and eats everything she plants. He is a well taken care of turtle. She even has a lease to take him for walks.
Long, time consuming walks, I assume
archie bunker wrote:
We rescued Norbert from the Tri-State Fair one month short of 5 years ago, and provided him an easy, pampered life.
In return, we were greeted every day with a shiny, golden smile from him.
Mrs. B. enjoyed talking to him, and the small grandkids liked watching him rearrange the rocks at the bottom of his house.
I liked feeding him flies, and other small bugs, and watching him enjoy them. I never felt like he cared much for me though.
Seems like every time I took him out of the water to pet him, he went all epileptic, and acted the fool.
We will miss him. He's been part of our daily lives for nearly 5 years, and our routine has a gap in it now.
It's a sad day indeed........
We rescued Norbert from the Tri-State Fair one mon... (
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He was a wonderful friend and Mr. and Mrs. Toad who were at his wedding will be sad at the news. I will tell them next time I see them. At least you have David's drawing of them at the wedding to remember him by.
Is he a turtle or a tortise?
Yes, it takes time, but he got under a pickup quicker than I could catch him.
archie bunker wrote:
We rescued Norbert from the Tri-State Fair one month short of 5 years ago, and provided him an easy, pampered life.
In return, we were greeted every day with a shiny, golden smile from him.
Mrs. B. enjoyed talking to him, and the small grandkids liked watching him rearrange the rocks at the bottom of his house.
I liked feeding him flies, and other small bugs, and watching him enjoy them. I never felt like he cared much for me though.
Seems like every time I took him out of the water to pet him, he went all epileptic, and acted the fool.
We will miss him. He's been part of our daily lives for nearly 5 years, and our routine has a gap in it now.
It's a sad day indeed........
We rescued Norbert from the Tri-State Fair one mon... (
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Very sorry for the loss of your dog, it leaves a bigger hole in or lives than we often care to admit.
archie bunker wrote:
We rescued Norbert from the Tri-State Fair one month short of 5 years ago, and provided him an easy, pampered life.
In return, we were greeted every day with a shiny, golden smile from him.
Mrs. B. enjoyed talking to him, and the small grandkids liked watching him rearrange the rocks at the bottom of his house.
I liked feeding him flies, and other small bugs, and watching him enjoy them. I never felt like he cared much for me though.
Seems like every time I took him out of the water to pet him, he went all epileptic, and acted the fool.
We will miss him. He's been part of our daily lives for nearly 5 years, and our routine has a gap in it now.
It's a sad day indeed........
We rescued Norbert from the Tri-State Fair one mon... (
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My condolences Arch, maybe he just needed a larger house or got tired of swimming in circles or being petted so much? Maybe he just got lonely and needed another goldfish to pal around with? The average lifespan is 5 to 10 years, in the wild is 25, and the world record is a whopping 43 years.
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