Darnedest thing any of us have ever seen.

About three days ago our Goldfish, Goldie Charlie, ate one of the albino catfish that are in his tank cleaning it. Chris saw the whole thing. He doesn't really care for the Goldfish. It has a bad attitude.When it's hungry it bangs the thermometer, that is in the tank, up against the side making a clank sound. He is always hungry. Also if he can see you eating he will stair at you.
Any way, when Chris saw the fat goldfish swallow up the cat fish he reach in the tank grabbed the goldfish and tried to pull the catfish out of its mouth. He was unsuccessful. The tail end of the catfish was left hanging out of the goldfishes mouth. We all thought the gold fish would either choke to death or die from not being able to eat. After a few hours we wrote the catfish off as being dead. The goldfish swam all around the tank with that tail hanging out of it's mouth for three days. Every  so often it looked as though the catfishes tail was wiggling but that was obviously from the movement of the goldfish.
Once when we fed Goldie Charlie we thought he was going to choke. He started twitching and then did a fishy body slam into the large rock that is decoration on the bottom of the tank. Then kept on swimming with that wiggly tail a little farther down his throat .

We all thought he would be able to finish swallowing it soon and maybe just maybe that Goldie Charlie would survive. Secretly Chris was looking forward to getting some new fish. He could get about four or five to replace that big old goldfish. I thought for sure the tugging of the catfish to get it free would have cut the goldfishes throat up and probably logged its fins in like a hook.
But.... That smart old gold fish finally spit that cat fish out. Once again Chris saw the whole thing. The catfish lay on the bottom dead and probably rotten. So Chris got the net, reached in and that cat fish took off like a bullet. ALIVE! And the gold fish is alive. A day later and they are both alive. Maybe they were talking and reached some sort of fishy agreement. I don't know but that's the darnedest thing any of us have ever seen.