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Back when I lived in Laguna Beach I had a 262 gal fish tank in my living room. I originally was going to populate it with bluegill and sunfish caught locally. There was a small actually tiny drainage from a former farm water impound pond. So small people simply step across it with ease and in most places was only 2" deep. But there were pools that were deeper and there were bluegill and sunfish in those pools. People laughed when I walked out there with my ultralight fishing gear. I told most I was stalking Moby Dick.
My first day there I caught one bluegill, two sunfish and to my surprise a 6" large mouth bass. Fish and game never said a thing because the water would eventually dry up and the fish would die. Well skip ahead a number of years and the bass ate the blugill and sunfish and was a 27" 12 lb monster.
My cat himself was a bit of a monster. He was 18 lbs of muscle. I had never had a cat that big and especially that muscular. He was like something out of a jungle.
The cat and the bass would spend hours each day staring at each other. Sometimes the cat would sit on the table next to the tank and he and the fish would stare at each other. Once in a while the bass would thrash around while continuing to stare at the cat. The cat would yeow loudly back at him when he did. The cat noted that in the late afternoon the bass would circle the tank near the surface as a routine. The tank had two large access holes in the top. One afternoon the cat jumped up on the tank and sat on the dividing strip between the holes staring at the bass circling the tank. After the cat jumped up on the tank the bass changed direction and was then coming at the cat from behind him thrashing the water under the hole the cat was peering down at him from. Suddenly the bass jumped out of the water and grabbed the cat's tail which had been flicking just inside the tank through the second hole. He pulled the cat's hindquarters into the tank and the cat screamed and launched himself out of the tank and onto the floor.
Obviously the cat never came near the tank again. As a side note after watching the cat and bass over the years I noted how similar they were in terms of intelligence, memory, and what triggers them.
My first day there I caught one bluegill, two sunfish and to my surprise a 6" large mouth bass. Fish and game never said a thing because the water would eventually dry up and the fish would die. Well skip ahead a number of years and the bass ate the blugill and sunfish and was a 27" 12 lb monster.
My cat himself was a bit of a monster. He was 18 lbs of muscle. I had never had a cat that big and especially that muscular. He was like something out of a jungle.
The cat and the bass would spend hours each day staring at each other. Sometimes the cat would sit on the table next to the tank and he and the fish would stare at each other. Once in a while the bass would thrash around while continuing to stare at the cat. The cat would yeow loudly back at him when he did. The cat noted that in the late afternoon the bass would circle the tank near the surface as a routine. The tank had two large access holes in the top. One afternoon the cat jumped up on the tank and sat on the dividing strip between the holes staring at the bass circling the tank. After the cat jumped up on the tank the bass changed direction and was then coming at the cat from behind him thrashing the water under the hole the cat was peering down at him from. Suddenly the bass jumped out of the water and grabbed the cat's tail which had been flicking just inside the tank through the second hole. He pulled the cat's hindquarters into the tank and the cat screamed and launched himself out of the tank and onto the floor.
Obviously the cat never came near the tank again. As a side note after watching the cat and bass over the years I noted how similar they were in terms of intelligence, memory, and what triggers them.
