Has anyone else got an ANT WORLD? Please come and talk ants with me

[FrannyandZooey]

Right we finally scraped together about 25 nervous looking ants and introduced them to their spacious new accomodation. Several promptly died and the rest spent a couple of days running around, much to ds's delight:

"We've got PETS!"

"Mummy look they are having a RACE!"

"Those two are very funny they just bumped HEADS!"

"Now they are having an ANT CIRCUS!"

So I was thinking this has got to be one of the best things anyone had ever bought him. Now on day 5 the ants are

well

I don't know where they are. They have gone somewhere. Underground? There is a tunnel. It doesn't seem to have ants in it. There is bugger all sign of life. Is this it? Are the first few days the only time you get to see them doing anything? Or have we killed them all? What do I tell ds?

oh lordy

I think I need a thread about nice fluffy MAMMALS with no invertebrates allowed

Gerbils eat each other

Not hamsters - did you read about that hamster further down - that ATE it's friend? That is a sick little mammal.

Exactly Talcy, i meant gerbils of course. Hamsters fine.

that was my gerbil,boco
hardy was his name

Was his friend dead? Murdered?

yes, yoyo, my gerbils ate their babies too.

And who's helped me with that distress, eh? No one

Will I try and do a link?

what to murdered cannibalised hamsters? NOOOOOO for the love of god NOOOOOOO

orangecow.org/pythonet/fang.gif that was me when I saw them in the morning

didn't witness the event fortunately
but evidence suggests that laurel died of possible heart failure...

and hardy chewed laurel's legs off

and munched here and there

gerbils not hamsters

lorikeets not parakeets

One of legs completely devoured

sorry franny

off to bed now

night!

Sleep well then.

sweet dreams

oo I don;t know. Moonface was always pretty scary

the Noddy goblins.

Sorry, that sounded disgusting.

I didn't want to ask, lionheart

lol