can fish and cats be friends?

is it inhumane to buy bright flouncy fish when you have a very curious, very naughty and rather large feline boy? i've always wanted to have some of these beautiful japanese (or siamese?) fighting fish. these dazzlingly coloured betta splendens (that's their proper name innit) are particularly handsome fish....i've had some of those cute flouncy goldfish before but these are something else. and apparently they are pretty ferocious too, hence the name, and need to be kept in solitary confinement. i'm thinking they would look gorgeous lined up along a shelf - three fish in three matching bowls....maybe something like this but bigger.....and filled with marbles on the bottom....? for my last fish bowl i brought an amazing bag of clear marbles from the house of marbles and it looked lovely. but would the temptation be too much for esau and would i come home to broken glass, spilt water and a smug cat? aaaaaand, there the whole choice about colours....three matching fish? different colours?....

beautiful photos from mochi, creative research house, kokako, petezpan, saveena, ktischlinger, tanakawho, amanda emblow, emmyloucooper, ray134