wow! you sound like me. whenever i didn't have homework i'd be spending my extra time reading or interacting with or watching nature or my pets. sometimes i would hang out w/ friends, but along the way i'd "smell the roses".

sounds like a good pet shop you worked at. most i rather not trust. that's neat how the owners were though.

pets that i've had: countless fish. many which lived long healty lives. three parakeets. (one met an untimly demise. which i will cry about until my last breath.) several frogs. two crickets. two red spotted newts. four dogs. two in my infantcy and two later on. and the Easter bunny i got to watch over for one week...until her owner came to claim her. no joke...it was the easter bunny. long story, but very cute. (and some other pets that i've happened to rescue along the way and help find their people.)

i live in bay county. (that's as much as i release over the internet.)

thanks for the compliment on my skills. i really need the confidence right now. my betta was doing fine and now he's starting to float. i just fixed a problem over the past two weeks and now this! and it was sunday, so i couldn't call the best pet shop for fish knowledge in town. (and the other one i wouldn't even give the satisifaction of a call. can you say "puppy mill"?!) so i am anciously waiting for morning to come. i took on this life and i'm not going to give up on him. i hated bettas and he has taught me to drown that prejudice. (jeeze! i've never seen such a prolonged "death" float before. usually a day or two and they're gone, so i was thinking something else is going on, since it's been over a week. but today he got alot worse. i'm so worried!) sorry, just needed to vent.