“I didn’t want to just kill him or dump him in the canal but I didn’t have a tank to put him in,” says Charlie Holland, the retired pet storeowner of the Fins, Furs and Feathers.

Plus, there was something strange about the fish. It’s face looked like a Frankenstein version of itself.

“He used to spook and run into the end of ten foot long tank. That battering distorted its face,” said Holland.