“I’ve never really had a real pet. One time when I was six years old, my mom bought 3 goldfish, but didn’t know you had to buy a special kind water for them and just used tap water. They ended up dying two hours after we got them. Another time I had a fish, and my younger siblings put shampoo and conditioner in its bowl and the fish exploded. It was so disgusting and it smelled really bad. I haven’t had much luck with fish,” Nicole Espinosa, 11.