{"id":567,"date":"2010-07-18T17:34:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T00:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/dailypaws\/?p=567"},"modified":"2010-10-04T11:03:01","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T18:03:01","slug":"a-fishy-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/dailypaws\/2010\/07\/a-fishy-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A fishy story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Baskerville Old Face; font-size: xx-large;\">A fishy story<\/span><br \/>\n<a onclick=\"return addthis_sendto()\" onmouseover=\"return addthis_open(this, '', '[URL]', '[TITLE]')\" onmouseout=\"addthis_close()\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/sm-share-en.gif\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" width=\"83\" height=\"16\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js?pub=vetlocator\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script> <!-- AddThis Button END --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A man who lives at Lake Conroe, (50 miles north of Houston) saw a ball bouncing               around kind of strange in the lake and went to               investigate. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It turned out to be a flathead catfish that had apparently tried to swallow a basketball which became stuck in its mouth!!<\/p>\n<p>The fish was totally exhausted from trying to               dive, but unable to because the ball would               always bring him back up to the surface.<\/p>\n<p>The man tried numerous times to get the ball out but was unsuccessful in doing so.<\/p>\n<p>He finally had his wife cut the ball in order to deflate it and release the hungry catfish.<\/p>\n<p>You probably wouldn&#8217;t have believed this,<br \/>\nif you hadn&#8217;t seen the following pictures:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/images\/pictures\/fish-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The strange ball bobbing in the lake caught the man&#8217;s attention <\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/images\/pictures\/fish-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"317\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">When he got closer he could see it was a catfish who&#8217;d managed to get its jaws around a basketball <\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/images\/pictures\/fish-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">He used a pole to guide the fish closer to try and get the ball out but it was too firmly wedged in. <\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/images\/pictures\/fish-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Finally his wife cut the ball to let the air out <\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vetlocator.com\/images\/pictures\/fish-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">and with a couple of tugs, the ball came out and the catfish was free to swim away<br \/>\nand live happily ever after        . <\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">The end<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: x-small;\">Sign up for Daily Paws and receive a free gift from VetLocator.com<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fishy story A man who lives at Lake Conroe, (50 miles north of Houston) saw a ball bouncing around kind of strange in the lake and went to investigate. 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