Does anyone have an unusual pet? Meet "Pancake" (probably don't click if you don't like insects - she's a praying mantis)

[lucysmam]

Meet Pancake, dd2's praying mantis.

She's smaller than my thumbnail at the moment, & very very fast. She likes to scare the shit out of me by jumping onto my hand when I least expect it 🤣

I was just checking on her temp/humidity & wondered what unusual pets you lot have?

Loving the snail photos. Mine was called Victor after Victor Meldrew because he used to huff quite a bit. I had him for 8 years and I took him to work a couple of times.

[quote YanTanTetheraPetheraPimp]@lucysmam, thank you!
As a child I was given a matchbox full of stick insect eggs and told to put it in the airing cupboard. Which I did. But not in another container so.....we were finding baby stick insects all over the house for weeks afterwards. That was as far as having anything remotely exotic went![/quote]
My DM brought home a box of stick insects from a friend at school when she was a child. She brought them in to show her mother, tripped and dropped the box. They were finding them in the living room curtains for weeks. She wasn't allowed them again

I love the snails, very tempting. We looked afte Ra gecko called Maud whilst a friend was on holiday and we became very attached to her, but we've now got a lurcher who likes anything that moves so we darent risk it.

Baby Gary is tiny there; he looks the size of a 'normal' snail but with a weird, pointy shell!

I was just looking at the 'Slimeside' channel on YT and interested to learn that apparently it is illegal to keep a GALS in the USA. I wonder why?

We have a leopard gecko, called Echo

These pics are great. :)

@Antarcticant

I was just looking at the 'Slimeside' channel on YT and interested to learn that apparently it is illegal to keep a GALS in the USA. I wonder why?

They are illegal as invasive species. They also carry parasites which can cause meningitis. They're also a problem for farmers as eat everything. In this country if I dumped my GLS they would die as it's so cold.

Loving the picture of echo

Ah, so it's only safe to keep a GLS in a cooler climate because they couldn't survive and invade if they escaped - makes sense now, thank you!

@Antarcticant

Ah, so it's only safe to keep a GLS in a cooler climate because they couldn't survive and invade if they escaped - makes sense now, thank you!

That's my understanding