Totem has always liked pets. She's always wanted pets. Recently she told me that she does not want to come home to an empty house anymore (she gets home at 6:30, I get home at 8:30) so she wanted to get a pet... I protested because first of all our landlords do not allow pets in our apartment and second, everytime we have gotten a pet we either have to move away (her dog was left at her parent's house when she left) or end up having to give away our pets and she'll get depressed (our two cats).

We tried a guinea pig (free from a friend) for a couple of days and I said if our landlord says we can have it, I'll be ok as long as she takes care of it. Our landlord said they would get back to us an never did... :\ We both made the decision that a guinea pig is not the right thing to do because we're never around and, for me at least, it just sat around and generally didn't give two $hits about us or anything else as long as it had its food...

So we compromised... Fish. :) 11 of 'em. All goldfish. (It probably helps that they were only 28 cents at Walmart.) We got the tank setup last night and so far only two have died (Walmart has a 24 hour policy so we are getting two new ones to replace them). I figured we now have a really fancy nite lite in the kitchen (plus the tank is a really nice addition to the apartment) and Totem gets to come home to something (even if she can't hold them, she was still happy that SOMETHING was there at the house)...