Many children spend months, sometimes years, attempting to convince their parents to let them get a fluffy puppy or kitten as their first pet, only to land a slightly lower maintenance companion like ...

"Crap, we have a floater," I thought in my head last night when I went to shake food flakes into our 1-year-old Betta fish's bowl. This isn't, however, what I said to my son who was "daddy" to the ...