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Um, Oh my goodness?

Can you imagine how much trouble we'd get in if we glued the eqivalant sized crytals on a puppy and tried to sell it as a fashion accessory??

Hard to fight that battle when the other option is squishing it under your shoe though.


If there was anything that deserved to be on "What the?", this has got to be it.

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

I agree 100%....'what the_____???' Who the hell wants a hissing roach as jewelry?

I had some of those hissing roaches in a rent house I lived in once because the previous tenants kept them as pets and let them get loose. Believe me, the last thought on mind when I saw one of those monsters holding the refrigerator hostage with an AK-47 was grabbing him up and slapping some crystals on him to wear to a cocktail dinner. I believe my first thought was to grab a can of Raid. I used the whole can, and, in the end, I'm not sure if he was poisoned or drowned.

I'll have to pass.

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~~Melissa~~
"Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder."

"I'll sell you a cockroach with a leash for $80.00"

Whats wroung with that sentence?

Inky

How embarassing for the roach.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

Yea, i saw those a few years ago, creepy aren't they?

Awwww, I used to keep madagascan hissers, theyre not really a pest speces, theyre quite clean really, the even have ther own scavanging mite colonies to help keep them clean. Its sounds disgusting, but its not really. They are a bit big and ugly and I can see why people get knee-jerk reactions to them though.

I wouldnt do the jewellery thing to them though,its seems needlessly cruel even for a roach, even though I have fed them to lizards in the past. They would be unable to cast off old exoskeletons with stuff glued to them and would probably die, even if the added weight didnt ruin their legs. Ironic they give out keeping instructions when youre unlikely to get them to live more than a week or two with the jewellery on.

Its a humble man who respects a cockroach

And I thought the whole live hermit crab pendant thing was bad.

live hermit crab pendent??

Inky

Inkling-
It was a fad in the petstores here in Arizona and maybe other places. Live hermit crabs with a metal loop attached to end of their shell. The idea was to put a necklace chain through the loop and hang the crab around your neck. Not only is the thought of a little crab scratching at my neck disgusting, it must have been torture for the unlucky crabs. The person who thought of this should be hung from their heels from a very tall bridge. As for the person who thought up the designer roaches, how about having to wear a helmet with a cement block glued to it.

Thats just awful! The closesed thing I would ever approve of would be painting the shells (Dont think thats harmful unless the crab didn't like the color) I've seen those at the mall and stuff. Around your neck though? Thats disturbing...

Inky

Wow, of all the subjects, why something as frowned upon as a cockroach? I mean, it'd be bad if they picked something else, but a cockroach is hardly gonna give them any sales. I suppose there is the thing that it's flightless, but still...

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The aquarist is one who must learn the ways of the biologist, the chemist, and the veterinarian.

(Dont think thats harmful unless the crab didn't like the color)

My hermit crabs hated those painted shells. As soon as I got home and put some natural shells in their tank they changed shells immediately. Later, I read that their 'goal' in nature is to blend in as much as possible to avoid becoming a snack, and even though they are in captivity they don't comprehend that the danger is gone. I guess they felt like they were sticking out like sore thumbs in painted shells....can't imagine why.

Roaches are still icky!!

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~~Melissa~~
"Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder."