The weather has been growing colder and any day the outside pond is lkely to start freezing. For many days Annikki has been trying to catch the goldfish in the pond to bring them in to her indoor aquarium. 
This is the famed table-top aquarium, the only one of its kind in the world, and definitely the only Cat TV in this Universe!
Finally, with a great deal of perseverance with a fishing net, she managed to catch not only all our three goldfish, but also 5 of the six baby fish that have appeared, mysteriously, during the summer in the pond. They are not the young of the goldfish as they are beautifully jet black. We have no idea how they appeared in the outside pond!
All the 8 fish were happy in their new environment. Annikki was jubliant with her work.
There was a large conch shell in the corner of the aquarium, and the little fish made it their special place.
However, just after I went to bed, there were cries of distress from the living room. Annikki came up in tears as one of the goldfish had swum into the conch shell, and feeling cramped, had swum at a high speed round and round, decapitating one of the tiny black fish.
The offending conch shell has been removed. A proper funeral was given to the dear departed.
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