I will tell you about my 2 dogs and my 2 bettas.

Thor isn't especially thunderous or mighty, though he does look it. His appearance makes people nervous, but I've never known a dog who is more people friendly. I've never heard him growl or bark angrily at any person ever. He does have a really bad tendency to mouth a little hard but that's just how he plays. I think he never really got out of his puppy stage, so he behaves like a very young dog, kind of a permanent adolescent. He loves to have his back scratched, and he will roll all over you and tries to get in bed with everyone to cuddle.

He also has a pretty high prey drive and anything that's not Gypsy and smaller than him gets chased around.

Gypsy is getting pretty old, she'll be 10 in February and it's starting to show in her muzzle. She's very shy, but loves people and loves to make people happy. If a stranger approaches her she will go to them, but with her head held really low. She's very sensitive to sound and generally a very nervous and fretful dog. She is, however, Thor's boss and he knows it. She can clean him, he cannot clean her. She nips in in the mouth if he tries. If something interesting is going on, she kind of loses that shy, nervous nature and goes in with guns blazing. She's very sweet but a little too demanding and needy. With the way she acts you'd think we never played with her.

Rohan is the newest addition to my family. He is a young, Delta fin betta and he has ich right now which is super lame. He is a very mellow kinda fish and he doesn't do a whole lot. I'm not sure if that's because he's less healthy or if he just hasn't come into his own yet. He likes to follow fingers around, and hide inside his bell at sleeptime.

Blossom came to me at work when a friend of mine quit and went on a month long junket to Hawaii. I'm not sure when he became "mine" but he is kind of the work mascot. His personality.... have you seen Gran Torino? He is Clint Eastwood's character in Gran Torino, except he's not especially racist. He's just a grouch. Another friend was tapping his bowl the other day, trying to make him all puffy, and Blossom was swimming really fast around the bowl. My friend said "I wonder if he's scared, suddenly?" I said "Think about this fish. Think about the Blossom you've come to know over the past months. What do you think he feels right now?"

My friend paused. Then said "I feel that he's giving me the finger." And that's Blossom. Who is a boy. Named after the girl on the tv show of the same name. Because my friends are wicked.