WEEK 3 : TASK 1 - FISH SURGERY

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There was a surgery carried out to save a fish. A group of doctor showed

their surgery skills to try cure a gold fish with the skin cancer. They laid the

fish on the some kinds of machine and then, to keep it alive, they put a water hose in the mouth of the fish and started the operation. They used knife and tweezers to remove bad coats of the skin on the platform of the injury. After that, they kept using lazer to burn cancer and abnormal cells. It was done by a main doctor in the surgery : Greg Bloober. He is working in the aquatic medicine president program at North Carolina State University Verdernary school. The question was made here is why they did that to just save a fish. He said : Nowaday, more Americans have been changing the attitude to the fish. Its no longer for decoration that you put into a glass tank but it becomes a pet in home and more people pay more money for them either. Most people assume the fish are smart animal. They said they could listen to us and tell us what is going on even they could have obvious responds to us. We don’t just have connections with our own kind but with other animals. Also, there is a man who loves Koi fishes and he raises them in a lake of his house. He usually dips his body in the water to approach them and cuddle them like his children and even kiss them. He spent a lot of time to stay with them. Although now they can cost thousands of dollar but he still doesn’t sell them and considers raising them as a favorite thing. Even once time, he spent thousands of dollar to save a broken spine fish that is his the most favorite fish. So, the fish have been becoming a favor pet in home that can be compared with a dog or a cat and why don’t we try raising a fish at home. It may be a new entertainment for us to try it and discover interesting things.