TWO pet goldfish are recovering after undergoing almost £500 worth of medical treatment.
Star, owned by Glasgow student Abby Gordon, 21, had a blind, cancerous eye removed in an operation involving a team of vets from Inglis Veterinary Hospital in Dunfermline, Fife.
On the same day they removed a lump from Star's aquarium partner Nemo, with both operations costing the owner almost £500.
Star came into the Gordon family after being won at the local fair for pocket change 12 years ago by Abby.
They live in her mother Janie Gordon's home in Dollar, Clackmannanshire.
Mrs Gordon said: "I know it seems like a lot of money to spend on an operation for a goldfish but what was the alternative?
"I think we've a social responsibility to look after our pets and I know my daughter would have been distraught if anything had happened to the goldfish."
She added: "Star is fine.
"He's swimming about happily and the vets have shown me how to give antibiotics too.
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