So this morning Anatole was being a bit of a dick. He was on one of this “Hey! Pay attention to me!” sprees, accompanied with the type of hyper-activity that typically precedes a big poop. (Yeehah.) Except more so, and more annoying.

Then when I was getting ready to leave, I noticed something amiss in the aquarium — one of my Bala sharks was just kinda… bobbing. Not dead yet, but upside down and not swimming. Then he got stuck in a fake plant. Shit.

He had enough gumption left to try and escape the net, but only the once. I scooped, transported, and flushed his expensive ass (couldn’t see anything wrong from the outside). Anatole commentated the whole while.

Now, Anatole is, without question, the aquarium keeper. I pay attention to it when I’m feeding them, adding water, and sometimes just staring in relaxation mode. Anatole, on the other hand, pretty much has the thing under 24-hour surveillance. (Only one of us can see in the dark.)

So was he going all “Timmy’s trapped in the well!” on me? Was he simply requesting, “I can has filet o’ fish?”, or was he just being a dick, and the dead fish was just coincidence? Cuz, y’know… he IS a cat. (o hai…)

I know it’s recommended to have Balas in threes, but I don’t know yet if I feel like replacing that one right now (I still have two). Might wait and see if anyone else decides to circle the bowl. Or if Anatole develops any other interesting communications strategies. Perhaps there are messages in the litter box I haven’t been receiving?

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