[AQGeiger]

My poor fish! And he was a Republican fish, too...his name was George W.

[hole_n_one]

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

Get a squirt bottle. Every time your kitty murders something you didn't want it to, say "NO!!!" in a loud, firm voice and squirt the kitty in the face (on the mist setting is fine).

[Drango]

A cat's gotta do what a cat's gotta do. Perhaps a screen over the fish bowl?

[headsonpikes]

Here's my advice - get a dog!

[jwalburg]

Cats are like that

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

Also, take away your kitty's assault rifle.

[Texas Eagle]

Buy a pirahna.

[Calpernia]

[stylin19a]

[Drango]

Call PETA

[quantim]

I already threw a handful of water in her face

Not good, as cats, and unlike dogs work in real-time and don't respond to discipline.  But they always understand LOVE.

[general_re]

Well, wait a minute - what kind of fish was this?

[Jack Deth]

Your cat was just being a cat, AQ.

Buy a new fish and re-locate the bowl or aquarium.

Jack.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Don't know what to tell you that would be of help,but maybe you could put a screen over the fish bowl and gradually introduce your cat to the fish.

I know it sounds stupid ,but we did it with our cat when my daughter got a pet rat.Every day my daughter would take her rat out of the cage and would let the cat sniff it.
Both critters are fine.

Our cat never harmed our Beta either.He would drink the water out of the bowl and the Beta would swim right up to him.

He just knew he couldn't harm anything in the house I guess.

[Choose Ye This Day]

Stop adding tartar sauce to the fish bowl, for starters.

[Sparticus]

First of all, a fish may never be "murdered."

Now that I've got that little bit of moral-ism out of my system, here's what I've found to be effective. First, you have to catch them while they are performing the proscribed behavior. No punishment after the fact will be associated with the bad behavior. This is one area where cats are not as intelligent as dogs. :-) Corrective measures carried out after the fact will only be perceived by the cat as an assault. They don't make associations that way. The squirt gun technique works well, IF you catch the cat by the fish bowl. A jar of pennies shaken loudly works, too. If you find yourself unprepared with a squirt gun or other implement, hiss loudly and aggressively and stamp your foot at the cat. That communicates to the cat your displeasure in a language all cat's understand.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Cover the aquarium (with light hood). Put it in a room with a door. Keep door closed to keep out cat.

Some cats, especially females, just like to kill, even when they're well fed.

I've got two pet birds, and a stray female cat. She was killing wild birds for food before I took her in. So far (2 years) I've had good luck by keeping the birds in a room with a closed door. She doesn't seem to know/care they're there. She still has the killing instinct though - she's a great mouser.

[SoDak]

Having had a cat for a little more than a year now, I can confidently say that there is nothing you can do.

[Mike Darancette]

My normally very loving kitty has murdered my fish.

Wasn't murder, it was a fish! You cat was doing what God taught it to do.

[texasflower]

First of all, condolences on your fish. I bought a beautiful red fish (don't know what kind it was, but it was pretty) once, and before I could get it into the aquarium, my baby daughter started to cry.

I went to check on the baby and left the plastic bag on the kitchen counter. Never thought about the cat. When I went back into the kitchen, my cat looked up at me with a look of great pride and she had that fish dangling out of her mouth, still wiggling.

It freaked me out, but my (ex)husband made me let her eat it. He said she worked for it, so she should have it. I couldn't watch.

Anyway, visualize and sparticus gave you good advice.

I used a super squirter water gun along with a loud deep "no", to train the cat I have now. (BTW, the cat's name is George W.) He was thinking he should eat the birds. The water gun worked great and it only took a day or so and it was fun for me. (Is that bad?) Now, I only have say no, when he does ANYTHING wrong.

Now he just looks at the birds and they sing pretty songs for him as he watches sweetly.