Our cat saved a jumper

[richarddeweerd]

Yesterday morning when the misses and me we still in bed, our cat came upstairs into the bedroom. That itself is nothing strange she does that every morning. But this time something was different. Instead of jumping on the bed what she does normally, she stayed on the carpet and started to meow. I got directly out of bed and there in front of her on the carpet was a bluestreak goby that we have for 2 weeks now. I grabbed it up and thought it was dead. So ran downstairs grabbed a small bin and filled it with water from the tank. When I dropped the fish in, I thought at first that it did not survived but after 2 or 3 seconds it started to move it fins and it swam. We are now almost 35 hours later and the goby is happily swimming around in the tank again.

I made a mistake myself, there is a small hole in my net cover and of course the goby found a way to jump out. Apparently the cat noticed and brought it upstairs to the bedroom. She definitely deserved an extra portion of her favorite snack yesterday.

 

[brandon429]

when cats are saving small fish im inclined to believe the magnetic pole reversal thing from the 90s just might be true and in action as we speak/ cataclysm concerns

 

[Hermie]

Lovely cat

 

[homer1475]

My cat just eats the jumpers.

 

[brandon429]

Only during non pole reversal states. During them he’s also redirecting mice safely out the crack they came in from

 

[richarddeweerd]

I have to admit that if I would read this on a forum I would have a hard time to believe it.

 

[brandon429]

My gmother’s cat routinely brought in bugs and stuff he didn’t eat I believe it. We got a half mouse once he he

this may be the only doglike character a cat will ever have, presenting a bounty. Have seen it yep.

 

[DaneGer21]

My gmother’s cat routinely brought in bugs and stuff he didn’t eat I believe it. We got a half mouse once he he

this may be the only doglike character a cat will ever have, presenting a bounty. Have seen it yep.

Oh yeah, our barn cat ALWAYS gives/leaves us half eaten surprises! Haha

If not, she keeps them alive and will play with them ALL day in the yard; poor little guys haha

 

[brandon429]

I do not doubt variations on cat behavior

what I doubt vehemently is anyone’s stuck ammonia post. It’ll never happen even if the poles go away much less reverse. Even with the loss of all magnetic control on earth, that won’t automatically make api right, nobody’s surface area died.

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

That's awesome!! You've got a rescue cat!

 

[mindme]

My cat just eats the jumpers.

You sure they are actually jumping?

 

[Oregon Grown Reef]

Yesterday morning when the misses and me we still in bed, our cat came upstairs into the bedroom. That itself is nothing strange she does that every morning. But this time something was different. Instead of jumping on the bed what she does normally, she stayed on the carpet and started to meow. I got directly out of bed and there in front of her on the carpet was a bluestreak goby that we have for 2 weeks now. I grabbed it up and thought it was dead. So ran downstairs grabbed a small bin and filled it with water from the tank. When I dropped the fish in, I thought at first that it did not survived but after 2 or 3 seconds it started to move it fins and it swam. We are now almost 35 hours later and the goby is happily swimming around in the tank again.

I made a mistake myself, there is a small hole in my net cover and of course the goby found a way to jump out. Apparently the cat noticed and brought it upstairs to the bedroom. She definitely deserved an extra portion of her favorite snack yesterday.

My cats have sort of done the same thing. Before I had a net, our Naoko fairy wrasse decided to make a break for it. Our cat was playing with it on the ground when my wife realized what it was. It was behind the tank where cat hair accumulates COMPLETELY covered in hair. That was roughly 4 months ago. Still doing well.

Almost as crazy as the same cat playing with something in the living room. When I looked at it, I saw it was a bamboo shrimp from my freshwater tank...8 feet away. Haha. It survived for months before finally dying due to damaged fans.

 

[Buckster]

It's amazing that a fish can find that small hole and jump out of it. Not knowing exactly how long the fish was out of the tank and surviving is amazing. Having the cat bring it to you in the bedroom is incredible! Did you buy a lottery ticket that day?

 

[richarddeweerd]

It's amazing that a fish can find that small hole and jump out of it. Not knowing exactly how long the fish was out of the tank and surviving is amazing. Having the cat bring it to you in the bedroom is incredible! Did you buy a lottery ticket that day?

No, I did not buy one, I think that I used all my good luck for this week already

Fish is still swimming after 55 hours I'm really starting to believe it survived.

 

[trmiv]

I had a similar thing happen a few weeks ago with a striped Blenny.

I had just released the fish from the acclimation box, put the cover on my tank and turned around. I heard a noise from the cover and then a splat. Turned my head and the Blenny had flown through a opening on the cover where my gyre cord popped it up.

The Blenny hit the floor about 3 feet away from the tank, and my cat immediately pounced on it and grabbed it. I yelled “no no no no the cat grabbed the Blenny!” and he took off running down the hall with the fish. I ran after him, my wife and daughter were screaming “nooo”.

Finally he got to the end of the hallway and stopped with the fish and when I ran up to him he dropped it. I grabbed the Blenny and ran back to my tank. striped Blennies are fang blennies, so on the way back she was not pleased with my handling her and she sank her fangs into my finger. So I’m yelling “ow ow ow” and rushing it back. I plopped her back into the tank and after a few minutes she was swimming around like nothing happened and ate. That was like a month ago and she’s perfectly fine. We named her Lucky.

fang blennies certainly deserve that label. Her bite hurt and was bleeding for about 20 minutes.

 

[40g Nano]

So once my dad was trying to get a zebra danio (fw fish) out of the back of an aio, and he didn’t know he got it in the net, so he was looking and looking until he noticed that the fish was in the net in the table, for minutes

he put it back into the display, and he was swimming upside down, but in a few minutes he acted like nothing happened

this was in my fw tank, and a month later, he got eaten by me red tail shark

 

[Fish man]

I would get your cat checked out. That's not normal!

 

[Steviegee]

when cats are saving small fish im inclined to believe the magnetic pole reversal thing from the 90s just might be true and in action as we speak/ cataclysm concerns

Maybe it was the Jewish space lasers. Lol

 

[Pistol Peet]

Yesterday morning when the misses and me we still in bed, our cat came upstairs into the bedroom. That itself is nothing strange she does that every morning. But this time something was different. Instead of jumping on the bed what she does normally, she stayed on the carpet and started to meow. I got directly out of bed and there in front of her on the carpet was a bluestreak goby that we have for 2 weeks now. I grabbed it up and thought it was dead. So ran downstairs grabbed a small bin and filled it with water from the tank. When I dropped the fish in, I thought at first that it did not survived but after 2 or 3 seconds it started to move it fins and it swam. We are now almost 35 hours later and the goby is happily swimming around in the tank again.

I made a mistake myself, there is a small hole in my net cover and of course the goby found a way to jump out. Apparently the cat noticed and brought it upstairs to the bedroom. She definitely deserved an extra portion of her favorite snack yesterday.

This is very very cool I own two cats which have saved a carpet surfing Dragon wrasse for me before. They tried to save my eel also but I didn't listen to good on that 1.

 

[Cwentz758]