No lessening in these tears, I feel so depressed and low.

Anyway, I woke up at 2,3,4 falling back to restless sleep each time, then one of our cats insisted on lying on me and forced me to get up about 5ish. Got into my routine, feed the cats, feed the dogs, went out back and heard this high pitched noise, turned the light on and the pond was drained completely with the pumps screaming. I quickly turned the one I could off and ran inside for DB to turn the other off. My worst nightmare come to fruition, pond drained empty and fish flapping in puddles under the deck. I couldn't look, DB did, and said they are all ok in a deep puddle under the deck and swimming. Our pond is about 11mtr in length 2 to 5mtr in width in areas and 1' deep in the shallow end 2' in the deep end, they were swimming in about 6 inches....

Long story short, 11 hours later pond filling, fish swimming happily, pump,problem hopefully resolved. Let's hope the fish survive the influx of fresh tap water and shock to their system. I can't believe they all survived in that shallow patch. Thank heaven the cat woke me...