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I frequently have dreams about my pets, especially my turtles and my piranha, named Hannibal. I dream that they get sick or die. I've had two bad dreams about my piranha recently, they occurred about a month apart. In the earlier one, I dreamt I had neglected to clean his tank all summer and when I finally looked at it, he had died; he was dust at the bottom of the tank. In the later dream, my mother and I were driving up to visit our relatives in Canada. I had left Hannibal with them for some reason, and I was really excited to see him again. I was really upset when I checked out his aquarium because the water was over 90 degrees and there were dead emperor tetras floating around in the water. Hannibal didn't look too well either, but I told him everything was going to be all right now that I was there. He came up to the surface, I scratched his head and he looked at me with big puppy eyes. Then he bit me! Just a little nick on my finger but I hadn't expected it.As I was checking out the cut, he jumped out at me and I half deflected, half stabbed him with the thermometer. He got knocked into a bucket in the closet. He cowered in there giving me the evil eye. I turned to someone else in the room and said, "that's the problem with piranhas; they are like crocodiles. You can keep one for years but they never figure out who loves them." A couple of days after I had this dream, my mother called to tell me she found Hannibal floating in his tank; he had been dead for at least a day.