User blog:Nightfern/Death in the Family

Last night, part of my family died.

My betta had developed a rapidly growing tumor on his throat about two weeks ago. Every time I fed him, he bled from his gills and he began to move slowly and sluggishly as the tumor ate him away. Inbreeding usually causes this in bettas.

He was on his belly, unmoving last night, but still alive. I didn't have any clove olive with me so I couldn't properly euthanize him.

I put him in a cup, brought him to the kitchen, and procedeed to stab him with a knife and cut him in half with scissors. He had already lost conciousness by that time.

He was dead when I stabbed him in his belly.