knobmeup wrote:
Sorry!
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Yeh it must be a bit weird feeding him live insects... where the fuck are you gonna keep them?
I'm sure the cat would have a go given the chance.... they don't give a fuck & don't seem to be deterred by pain or losing a fight. Probably just sit there staring at the tank..... keep it occupied anyway!
Bodmin

Space Bandit wrote: I am disappoint. You really shoooooouuuullld know better I don't find it weird. You're just interfering with nature to enable a creature to live on the wrong side of the planet in an environment that it wouldn't otherwise be able to. What I'm wrestling with is the ethics. He's re-homed. He was born in someone's front room and it isn't his fault where he was born. It isn't mine either. I've accepted the responsibility of looking after him till the day he moves on. For that to happen he has to have a constant supply of farmed insects, which I have to provide. I would happily provide an insect with a similar geographical disadvantage a home too. Locusts are at a geographical disadvantage in Britain. So I'll make them a home. Most folk keep them in small tubs and feed em a product based diet. I'm gonna try a different approach if I can and let them have a full on environment to live in. It's just that none of them will be moving on due to old age....The issue for me is that I will be consciously contributing to the intensive farming of a creature.Bob likes to cling to your chest with your hand on his back. The cat likes to lie in your arms like a baby. That's how we are gonna introduce them so that we are 100% in control. We'll see how it goes from there. Ideally they will cohabit and on hot days Bob can be out when the cat's in but otherwise we'll be shutting the window that the cat's ladder is up against and he'll just have to stay out.You can't keep Beardys out for too long anyway and the cat does like the outside World

Note there's a word missing from yer quotes. I couldn't take the responsibility for quoting it

you ever kept a snake? feeding baby mice to a snake in a bathtub is visceral. i think thats the right word.

it sounded right. i mean raw i guess.

He's very handsome & it's a good sign that he's got his appetite back.

he has to eat so there's no moral dilemma that I can see.

i've fed a few snakes bats but not kept one meself yet. the strike and coil is pretty impressive no?
yeah he's a hansome boy gilly. i've just put locusts and crickets in but he aint gone for em yet, he's basking.

yeah it is like a little spring trap. its cool

My mate went to go to see The Orb last night & was having a couple of pre-gig pints in town when somebody spiked him with something pretty drastic & it knocked him out.
Fucking cunt! Fortunately his bro managed to find him & dragged him home.

wankers. so he missed the gig anorl. wankers.

Aye... ticket still in his pocket....
If he could've let me know I could've had that!
He's going looking at the ccvt tomorrow to see if he can see what happened.

What a cowardly trick. I hope he catches the culprit.

Gilly wrote:
So do I.... if somebody is going round doing that I'm sure this isn't the first incident and probably not the last.... I've no idea what the intention is but it certainly isn't good & could've easily killed him.

This, because it made me do one of them big grin things.

Space Bandit wrote:
How did his bro know to go look for him? Any idea what it was yet?

They might have meant to take his wallet & stuff. Maybe they just didn't get the opportunity. Complete bastards whatever their game was.

Feather - those beasts are incredible, ain't they! So playful & comical & gorgeous.

Space Bandit wrote: People really are idiots.

That's my observation for today.

You're spot on there WUB.

beardy bob is gettin impatient. his new viv is nearly built and by tomorrow he'll have a new home 5 times the size. luckily ms knob has fallen for him and oked a whole corner of the trailer to be his home just need to put some platforms in and do the glazing tomorrow. will decorate it for him once he's in. he ate a locust a cricket and some greens yesterday and today and is taking water from a syringe. he's pooing
it f'n stinks.
he's regularly exploring the trailer and thats his woe at the moment. he goes back in, has a quick bask and then wants to come out and play again....
hopefully he'll be more stimulated by his new big bedroom.

Ab Origine wrote:
Fortunately he was with some other folk who were off to the gig that were able to get hold of his brother.
He's no idea what it was.
I suspect it's some wankers who go around doing stuff like that for a laugh at other people's expense, or an attempt to rob him.

Familys.

At the moment, one in particular who decided to die the other day and one who appears to be ready to follow suit...

Ironically, even though dead, she still manages to fuck me up.