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Old 08-03-2005, 04:55 PM
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"kathy" wrote in message
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Words ~ just ~ fail ~ me....

Vets discover gold in fish bowls
By Gerald Plessner

....The correspondent, in classic somber tones, talked to the owner
of an Oranda gold fish, which for some reason started swimming on its
side a few weeks earlier.
.....' The doctor designed, get this, a prosthetic device to keep the
goldfish vertical as it swam around the bowl!
The doctor drove a small pin under the top fin of the fish. He then
fastened a small cork to the fin, trying to pull the fish up into a
vertical position....the procedure cost almost $400.

Full story here
http://ihmp.net/@/id
or
http://www.whittierdailynews.com/Sto...734251,00.html


I heard about this on NPR. A fish with a crutch, I love it.


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